The Porcupine's Quill
Celebrating thirty-five years on the Main Street
of Erin Village, Wellington County
Browse by Author
Margaret Avison
Always Now
ISBN 0-88984-262-0
Always Now, Volume Two
ISBN 0-88984-255-8
Always Now, Volume Three
ISBN 0-88984-261-2
Essential Margaret Avison, The
ISBN 978-0-88984-333-2
I Am Here and Not
Not-There
ISBN 0-88984-315-5
A Kind of Perseverance
ISBN 978-0-88984-326-4
Mike Barnes
Aquarium
ISBN 0-88984-209-4
Contrary Angel
ISBN 0-88984-239-6
The Syllabus
ISBN 0-88984-254-X
Clark Blaise
If I Were Me
ISBN 0-88984-185-3
Lunar Attractions
ISBN 0-88984-105-5
Montreal Stories
ISBN 0-88984-270-1
Pittsburgh Stories
ISBN 0-88984-227-2
Southern Stories
ISBN 0-88984-219-1
World Body
ISBN 0-88984-284-1
G. Brender à Brandis
An Artist's Garden
ISBN 0-88984-223-X
Concord of Sweet Sounds
ISBN 0-88984-316-3
Gathering of Flowers from Shakespeare, A
ISBN 0-88984-290-6
Portraits of Flowers
ISBN 0-88984-157-8
Wood Engraver's Alphabet, A
ISBN 978-0-88984-311-0
Wood, Ink and Paper
ISBN 0-88984-029-6
Wayne Clifford
On Abducting the 'Cello
ISBN 0-88984-237-X
The Book of Were
ISBN 0-88984-281-7
The Exile's Papers
ISBN 978-0-88984-297-7
The Exile's Papers
ISBN 978-0-88984-317-2
Don Coles
Essential Don Coles, The
ISBN 0-88984-312-0
Forests of the Medieval World
ISBN 0-88984-158-6
Kurgan
ISBN 0-88984-211-6
David Helwig
Duet
ISBN 0-88984-247-7
Mystery Stories
ISBN 978-0-88984-337-0
Names of Things, The
ISBN 0-88984-286-8
Smuggling Donkeys
ISBN 978-0-88984-294-6
Stand-In, The
ISBN 0-88984-244-2
F David Hoeniger
Concord of Sweet Sounds
ISBN 0-88984-316-3
Gathering of Flowers from Shakespeare, A
ISBN 0-88984-290-6
Hugh Hood
Around the Mountain
ISBN 0-88984-141-1
Flying a Red Kite
ISBN 0-88984-110-1
The Isolation Booth
ISBN 0-88984-119-5
A Short Walk in the Rain
ISBN 0-88984-134-9
You'll Catch Your Death
ISBN 0-88984-144-6
After All!
ISBN 0-88984-258-2
Tim Inkster
The Crown Prince Waits for a Train
ISBN 0-88984-008-3
co-editor, The Porcupine's Quill Reader
with John Metcalf
ISBN 0-88984-183-7
George Johnston
The Essential George Johnston
ISBN 978-0-88984-299-1
The Schemers & Viga Glum (Icelandic Sagas)
ISBN 0-88984-189-6
Thrand of Gotu (Icelandic Sagas)
ISBN 0-88984-180-2
W.J. Keith
Canadian Literature in English (I)
ISBN 0-88984-283-3
Canadian Literature in English (II)
ISBN 0-88984-285-X
An Independent Stance
ISBN 0-88984-121-7
Rudolf Kurz
Illustrated Alphabet for the Illiterate, An
ISBN 0-88984-278-7
Looking for Snails on a Sunday Afternoon
ISBN 0-88984-256-6
John Metcalf
How Stories Mean
ISBN 0-88984-127-6
co-editor, The Porcupine's Quill Reader
with Tim Inkster
ISBN 0-88984-183-7
co-editor, Writers Talking
with Claire Wilkshire
ISBN 0-88984-274-4
Forde Abroad
ISBN 0-88984-266-3
K.D. Miller
Holy Writ
ISBN 0-88984-222-1
A Litany in Time of Plague
ISBN 0-88984-145-4
Give Me Your Answer
ISBN 0-88984-208-6
Richard Outram
Dove Legend
ISBN 0-88984-221-3
Hiram and Jenny
ISBN 0-88984-118-7
Mogul Recollected
ISBN 0-88984-174-8
South of North
ISBN 978-0-88984-298-4
P.K. Page
A Brazilian Alphabet for the Younger Reader
ISBN 0-88984-265-5
Coal and Roses
ISBN 0-8898-431-7
Essential P K Page, The
ISBN 978-0-88984-308-0
Hand Luggage
ISBN 0-88984-288-4
The Hidden Room Volume 1
ISBN 0-88984-190-X
The Hidden Room Volume 2
ISBN 0-88984-193-4
Kaleidoscope
ISBN 978-0-88984-331-8
A Kind of Fiction
ISBN 0-88984-220-5
The Old Woman and the Hen
ISBN 978-0-88984-309-7
Planet Earth
ISBN 0-88984-252-3
Up on the Roof
ISBN 0-88984-287-6
James Reaney
Baldoon (with C.H. Gervais)
ISBN 0-88984-016-4
The Box Social & Other Stories
ISBN 0-88984-173-X
The Boy with an R in His Hand
ISBN 0-88984-059-8
Essential James Reaney, The
ISBN 0-88984-319-8
Suit of Nettles, A
ISBN 978-0-88984-330-1
Take the Big Picture
ISBN 0-88984-087-3
Leon Rooke
The Happiness of Others
ISBN 0-88984-125-X
Hot Poppies
ISBN 0-88984-263-9
Muffins
ISBN 0-88984-167-5
Norm Sibum
Girls and Handsome Dogs
ISBN 0-88984-230-2
Intimations of a Realm in Jeopardy
ISBN 0-88984-249-3
Ray Smith
The Man Who Hated Emily Bronte
ISBN 0-88984-245-0
The Man Who Loved Jane Austen
ISBN 0-88984-202-7
George A. Walker
A Is for Alice
ISBN 0-88984-323-6
Book of Hours
ISBN 978-0-88984-335-6
Images from the Neocerebellum
ISBN 0-88984-291-4
The Inverted Line
ISBN 0-88984-214-0
Christopher Wiseman
Crossing the Salt Flats
ISBN 0-88984-210-8
In John Updike's Room
ISBN 0-88984-273-6
The Porcupine’s Quill is remarkable in Canadian publishing in that most of the physical production of our journal is completed in-house at the shop on the Main Street of Erin Village. We print on a twenty-five inch Heidelberg KORD, typically onto acid-free Zephyr Antique laid. The sheets are then folded, and sewn into signatures on a 1907 model Smyth National Book Sewing machine.
To take a virtual tour of the pressroom, visit us at YouTube for a discussion of offset printing in general, and the operation of a Heidelberg KORD in particular. Other videos include Four Colour Printing, Smyth Sewing and Wood Engraving. Photographs of production machinery used on these pages were taken by Sandra Traversy on site at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill, December 2008.
The Porcupine's Quill would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. The financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) is also gratefully acknowledged.
“With their verve, their elan, and their passion for books, Tim and Elke Inkster have, over the years and against the tide, swallowed the bottom line and taken interesting, and savvy, risks on many excellent books, including those by some of Canada's most adventurous and first-time writers. Congratulations on three decades of publishing.” — Ellen Seligman, McClelland & Stewart
