David Young, trustee, announced the International and Canadian shortlist for this year’s prize noting that judges Anne Carson (Canada), Kathleen Jamie (Scotland) and Carl Phillips (USA) each read almost 400 books of poetry, including 12 translations, received from 12 countries around the globe. The seven finalists – three Canadian and four International – will be invited to read in Toronto at Koerner Hall at The Royal Conservatory in the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, 273 Bloor Street West, Toronto on Wednesday, June 2, 2010.
For more information, see: Griffin Poetry Price Awards
Five books designed by Gaspereau Press co-owner Andrew Steeves have been recognized in the Alcuin Society’s 28th annual juried book-design competition. First prizes were awarded to Gaspereau Press books in the poetry, prose fiction and prose non-fiction categories.
All five of the winning titles are trade books which were published by Gaspereau Press in 2009. The winning books demonstrate the impressive range of typographic styles and design applications which Gaspereau Press is able to produce. (Details on the winning titles are provided below.)
The Alcuin Society was founded in 1965 and promotes the appreciation of fine book design in Canada. This year’s judges – Marian Bantjes, Linda Gustafson, and Peter Koch – examined 252 books published in Canada in 2009. A total of 30 awards were granted in eight categories: Children’s, Limited editions, Pictorial, Poetry, Prose fiction, Prose non-fiction, Prose non-fiction illustrated and Reference. The winning books will be exhibited internationally at the Frankfurt, Leipzig and Tokyo book fairs, and at locations across Canada. For more information about the awards and about the Alcuin Society, please visit www.alcuinsociety.com
Gaspereau Press is a literary publisher and printer based in Kentville, Nova Scotia. The press is committed to literature and the book arts, incorporating a range of modern and antique forms of printing and binding to create books that are distinctive in manufacture and design.
For further notes on the production of these books, please visit the Gaspereau Press blog at gaspereaupress.blogspot.com
Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst. This new volume brings together selections from several of Bringhurst’s collections of poetry, including The Beauty of Weapons and The Calling, along with complete works including the polyphonic Conversations with a Toad and The Blue Roofs of Japan, and a series of new poems, "The Living." Designed by Andrew Steeves and Robert Bringhurst. Printed and bound at Gaspereau Press.
Lean-To by Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen. In her third book of poetry, Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen writes of places made home, navigating between fixed points of origin and the flotsam that encloses, between the longevity of marriage and parenthood, and the temporary of camping trips, renovations and hospital stays. Designed by Andrew Steeves and printed and bound at Gaspereau Press. This book has also been shortlisted for the Atlantic Poetry Prize.
The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud. Johanna Skibsrud’s debut novel connects the flooding of an Ontario town, the Vietnam War, a trailer in North Dakota and an unfinished boat in Maine. Parsing family history, worn childhood memories, and the palimpsest of old misunderstandings, Skibsrud’s narrator maps her father’s past. The jacket features an original illustration by Wesley Bates. Designed by Andrew Steeves and printed and bound at Gaspereau Press.
The Marram Grass: Poetry & Otherness by Anne Simpson. In six essays, poet and novelist Anne Simpson traces the paths of her thoughts, from observations to association, through poetry, language and metaphor, otherness and wilderness. Designed by Andrew Steeves and printed and bound at Gaspereau Press.
A Sound Like Water Dripping: In Search of the Boreal Owl by Soren Bondrup-Nielsen. With enthusiasm and sincerity biologist Soren Bondrup-Nielsen recalls his experience as a graduate student in the 1970s researching the Boreal Owl in northern Ontario and Alberta. Designed by Andrew Steeves and printed and bound at Gaspereau Press.
April 6th, 2010
Griffin Poetry prize shortlist announced
April 1st, 2010
Gaspereau Press Wins Five Alcuin Design Awards
April, 2010
George Elliot Clarke's I & I (Goose Lane Editions, 2009) nominated for the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction.
December, 2009
MTLS receives Canada Council for the Arts’ funding and begins to disburse honoraria beginning with issue 5
So now, let’s watch the sun undress the night;
See light—like melted butter—cover us,
While we’re cushioned in Luxury, plush Pomp
Of bed, deathbed of diabolic Chastity.
SETTING
An overstuffed yet bare living room. Fat recliner, rusty radiator, doilied coffee table, gaudy tiffany lamp, bare and dirty floorboards. Once opulent but now stripped piece by piece for cash. There is definitely no oak desk, velvet drapes or leather chair.
Renata leaned her head back to have it washed. It was the first time she’d been to a hairdresser in thirty-one years. The water drenched her hair, and soothing hands massaged her scalp. As she succumbed to the sensation, she remembered…Her brother had bleached her hair and pushed her into the sewer with one commandment: ‘LIVE.”…Renata marvelled at the gall of the fifteen-year-old she had been.
April 6th, 2010
Griffin Poetry prize shortlist announced
April 1st, 2010
Gaspereau Press Wins Five Alcuin Design Awards
April, 2010
George Elliot Clarke's I & I (Goose Lane Editions, 2009) nominated for the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction.
December, 2009
MTLS receives Canada Council for the Arts’ funding and begins to disburse honoraria beginning with issue 5
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