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On publishing “Sailor Girl” by Sheree-Lee Olson
__________________________________________________________ In March of 2005 the prospects for the Porcupine’s Quill were not good. Jack Stoddart’s General Distribution Services (GDS) had declared bankruptcy a few years earlier, a circumstance that was exploited by some in the book trade and resulted … Continue reading
Chapter One: The French Connection
In honour of PQL’s upcoming fortieth anniversary, Tim is writing a memoir about his experiences at the press. This is the first chapter, and more will go up as he writes them. Click on the Still in Business category to … Continue reading
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Technology – Power Issues: circa 1984
I learned to print at Coach House Press in 1969, when I took a three hour course on an AB Dick duplicator.Stan Bevington (Head Coach at Coach House) explained about ink and water, on and off, and a few subtleties … Continue reading
Banking (1976): James Reaney
I think one of my first memories of James Reaney dates from the late 1960s. Elke & I were both enrolled at University College at the University of Toronto. I was in Honours English. Elke was in Modern Languages. This … Continue reading
Eden Mills (2002): P K Page
In 1997 the Porcupine’s Quill was honoured to be able to release The Hidden Room, a two-volume, five hundred page collection of the poetry of P K Page that has sold over five thousand copies in the past ten years. … Continue reading
Reality (2006): Heavy Weather, the Porcupine’s Quill at Thirty
A version of this epistle appeared in Canadian Notes & Queries, Number 69. Summer, 2006. Another version was delivered to the Alcuin Society in Vancouver, April 2008; a third version was delivered to the Arts & Letters Club in Toronto, … Continue reading
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 Canada Book Fund (CBF) is also gratefully acknowledged.