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Edmonton AB poet Laurie MacFayden is reading from her book White Shirt at the Frontenac House launch of Dektet 2010. 'This is the ?classic? hard-drinking, hard-living, gravelly poet?s voice ? only it comes from a woman. It?s a bust-out-of-the-closet voice where occasional touchstone rhymes and furious lists score the page. The poems are stripped down, poignant, exact, and as heartily playful as any serious blues. Here is Sappho crossed with the Supremes.' ?Jury, Dektet 2010 http://frontenachouse.com/titles/single/white_shirt/ The year 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of Frontenac House and the Quartet poetry series. To celebrate, Frontenac simultaneously published 10 poetry books: Dektet 2010. Titles were chosen by a jury of leading Canadian poets: bill bissett, George Elliot Clarke, and Alice Major using a blind selection process. Jury members did not know the identity of persons submitting manuscripts.

• Release Date

  May 31, 2010

• Runtime

  09:03