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News from Alpine Book Peddlers:

Alpine Book Peddlers is now the new book distributor for Frontenac House, a Calgary based publisher whose mandate is to publish edgy, unpredictable, and altogether exceptional poetry from the widest possible spectrum of voices.

To find out more about their titles, please visit their website:
www.frontenachouse.com

DEKTET 2010: A Celebration of Canadian Poetry

The year 2010 marks the 10th anniversary of Frontenac House and the Quartet poetry series. To celebrate, Frontenac will simultaneously publish 10 poetry books in April– Dektet 2010. Titles were chosen by a jury of leading Canadian poets: bill bissett, George Elliott Clarke, and Alice Major using a blind selection process. Jury members did not know the identity of persons submitting manuscripts.

Attenuations of Force, Lori Cayer Winnipeg, MB
Children of Ararat, Keith Garebian, Mississauga, ON
Confessions of an Empty Purse, S. McDonald Toronto, ON
Ex Nihilo, Adebe D. A., Toronto, ON
Fallacies of Motion, William Nichols, Edmonton, AB
Falling Blues, Jannie Edwards, Edmonton, AB
Learning to Count, Douglas Burnet Smith, Antigonish, NS
[sic], Nikki Reimer, Vancouver, BC
Standoff Terrain, Jocko Benoit, Calgary, AB
White Shirt, Laurie MacFayden, Edmonton, AB

Toronto Launch
September, date tba
All 10 Dektet poets will be at the event.
In May, the Dektet poets will be at
events in their home communities across
Canada