The Porcupine's Quill

The second in a series of graphic novels edited for the Porcupine’s Quill by wood engraver George A. Walker in which Walker encourages students at the Ontario College of Art & Design to embrace 19th century linocut printmaking techniques to create extended visual narratives which are then scanned, digitized, and subsequently printed offset for publication at popular prices in a format that uses 20th century offset printing technology to replicate the look and ‘feel’ of a 19th century letterpress product.

2010—Doug Wright Award,
Shortlisted

2010—ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year,
Shortlisted

Twenty-six magical images gleaned from almost two hundred wood engravings made by George A. Walker for extremely rare editions of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (And What Alice Found There) published by Cheshire Cat Press in 1988 and 1998, respectively.

2010—ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year,
Shortlisted

Despite his amply deserved reputation as the father of Southwestern Ontario Gothic, James Reaney was one of the most playful and buoyant Canadian poets publishing in the 1940s and ’50s. The Essential James Reaney presents an affordable, pocket-sized selection of the poet’s very best work.

2010—ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year,
Shortlisted

2010—ReLit Award,
Long-listed

Get out of the house, get out of town, go west, go north, head for the wilderness and suffer like a true Canadian. David Carpenter will take you there. His prose has more pop than Orville Reddenbacker.

2010—ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year,
Runner-up

2010—Independent Publisher (IPPY) awards,
Winner

In the months following 9/11, while images of the collapsing towers haunted the media, Kenneth Sherman began a course of reading, seeking out authors who believed that literature could address the most extreme circumstances. Sherman contemplates Holocaust survivor Primo Levi, writing under crushing depression; Anne Frank, retaining sanity by diary writing; authors who, though critically ill, persisted in their quest for the right word. The ‘furies’ in Sherman’s title belong to history and what they bring is not only destruction, but the opportunity to transform ourselves.

2010—ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year,
Runner-up

2010—Canadian Jewish Book Award,
Winner

2010—Independent Publisher (IPPY) awards,
Winner

Coal and Roses allows the poet space to both research and to create, looking simultaneously to the past and to her hopes for an uncertain, metaphysical future.

Included are a series of 21 glosas, borrowing from the work of Ted Hughes, John Ashbery and Thom Gunn, amongst others. A masterful display of linguistic dexterity, Page assimilates the pervasive complexity and the abundance of tradition that co-exist in the world of literature.

2010—Griffin Prize for Poetry (Canada),
Shortlisted

2010—ReLit Award,
Long-listed

‘Margaret Avison was a highly regarded Canadian poet who saw poetry as her life’s vocation but shied away from being publicly labelled a poet. She has been called reclusive, introspective; her poetry difficult and demanding. And yet, as shown by her enigmatically titled autobiography, I am Here and Not Not-There, she was also a woman with a lively curiosity and a real love for the world.’

2010—Independent Publisher (IPPY) awards,
Runner-up

Don Coles’ Forests of the Medieval World (PQL 1993) won the Governor General’s Award for poetry. Kurgan (PQL 2000) won the Trillum Prize in Ontario. The Essential Don Coles presents an affordable collection of the poet’s very best work.

2010—ReLit Award,
Long-listed

The second work in a series of four that will eventually include 800 sonnets. The Face as its Thousand Ships continues where The Duplicity of Autobiography left off. Clifford maintains a deft ability to work the sonnet form. An exceptional work that functions as both an important cog in a series, and as a stand-alone work of art.

2010—ReLit Award,
Long-listed