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Frontenac House Nominees for Alberta Readers Choice Awards
Anna Marie Sewell and Pierrette Requier Make the Cut
10.10.2009 – Anna Marie Sewell's Fifth World Drum and Pierrette Requier's details at the edge of the village have been longlisted for the new Alberta Readers' Choice Award (ARC) sponsored by The Edmonton Public Library, in partnership with the Book Publishers Association of Alberta. These are both first-time authors of poetry books published by Frontenac House as part of Quartet 2009 this past April. Twitter Pitch
Fifth World Drum and details from the edge of the village are on the Alberta Readers Choice Longlist
Resource Links ABOUT FIFTH WORLD DRUM We’re all familiar with the First World of capitalist nations, the Second World of communism and the Third World of poor and underdeveloped countries. In 1974, Shuswap Chief George Manuel published The Fourth World: an Indian Reality in recognition of the third of the world population of indigenous peoples who don’t fit, and aren’t recognized, within the model of the Three Worlds. To these, Sewell adds a Fifth World, for those, like her, whose heritage crosses between worlds. Tags
Canadian Poetry, anna marie sewell, pierette requier, fifth world drum, details from the edge of the village, Alberta book publishers association, alberta writers, canadian publishing, canadian Frontenac House Publishers
Reviews Re: the poem “Thunderstorms.” I kept returning to its carnality, its cancer scars, its phantom cannibals living in the outhouse, its unbridled Freudian mayhem. Raw, wide‐eyed and palpably electric, this is wonderful stuff, and I look forward to reading more of it from Anna Marie Sewell. — Globe & Mail
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Alberta’s Peace country, on the farm and into the intermingled lives of a huge family – these prose poems are wonderful places to be, the characters delightful to meet. The details bring forth a ring ofsearches for unlikely intersections, and she finds them. I love Sewell’s poems because she describes the Canada I crave – intimate, beautiful, brave, forgiving. —Linda Goyette
ABOUT DETAILS FROM THE EDGE OF THE VILLAGE Pierrette Requier’s first book of poems, “details from the edge of the village”, offers a single stunning narrative arc that is novelistic in its sweep. A bilingual component merges northern Alberta French seamlessly into the flow as she embraces two centuries through the telling.
Reviews: ...the use of the present tense and exacting detail give these poems a hyper‐realistic effect, such as you might experience when viewing cinéma‐vérité or the paintings of Chuck Close…. It’s almost eerie how immediately the poet is able to place her reader within the living minutiae of her book’s private history. One thing that creates this verisimilitude is the naturalistic pacing of her writing; another, strangely enough, is a perfectly digestible amount of bilingualism. It lends a texture of specificity to the work, the unpredictable truths of the real world creeping in again, something that happens on multiple levels, creating layers of colour and credibility…” — Globe & Mail
ABOUT THE ALBERTA READERS' CHOICE AWARD The Alberta Readers' Choice Award (ARC) will promote the works of Alberta authors and publishers, and encourage the reading public to support literary works published in Alberta. The Award will be worth $10,000.
The ARC Award prize rivals that of other major national books awards in Canada, such as the Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and the Governor-General's Literary Award for Fiction. The annual award will be
given to a work of adult fiction or narrative non-fiction published by an Alberta based publishing house, with the top book being determined by the public.
The first Alberta Readers' Choice Award will be presented at the 2010 Alberta Book Publishing Awards Gala in Edmonton.
ABOUT FRONTENAC HOUSE Frontenac House is a small literary press in Calgary, AB, known first and foremost as a poetry publisher. They have published four books of poetry called Quartet each April, since their inception in 2000. In April, 2010 they will publish ten books of poetry - Dektet. Moon Nibbler is the second art book they have produced. Frontenac has also begun to publish other works reflecting the culture and history of Western Canada. Short URL: http://pitch.pe/28719 About Cadence PR Public relations for small businesses and non-profit organizations. Contacting Cadence PR Cadence PR Suite 22, 100-6th Ave SW Calgary, AB T2P 0P5 403.465.2345 Website: http://cadencepr.ca Press Contact lyn cadence Office: 403.465.2345 Email: lyn@cadencepr.ca Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=42937069075#/home.php? ref=home LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile? viewProfile=&key=23570131&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro Twitter: http://twitter.com/lyncadence Interview Request lyn cadence Office: 403.465.2345 Email: lyn@cadencepr.ca Product Sample Request lyn cadence Office: 403.465.2345 Email: lyn@cadencepr.ca
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