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PQL Holiday Giveaway Week #3: Essential Poetry Bundle
This week, our PQL Holiday Giveaway whisks us away to the pleasures of poetry! We’re offering up a free copy of The Essential Eugene McNamara, plus two other Essentials volumes for good company! Continue reading
GUEST POST: James Bader on Innovating a Classical Trope in The Essential John Glassco
There is only one poet I know who shares Glassco’s brilliance at transforming dark subject matter: Ovid. Continue reading
Wait an Apple-Picking Minute, or, News for October at PQL
I have distinct memories of going as a child to one or another of the several orchards in the area and being taught how to identify the apples ripe for picking, and how to gently detach them from the trees. It strikes me now that the whole exercise was more than just a method of procuring the apples that would inevitably be baked into my mom’s delicious apple pie or apple crisp. The lessons learned on an apple picking expedition are applicable to a wide range of tasks, even, I like to think, book publishing. Continue reading
#NPM19 Special Edition of From the Vault: Poetry Criticism
As our National Poetry Month content continues, it is tempting to encourage you to just read poetry … read all the poetry. Pick up copies of a few near-forgotten favourites from the Essential Poets series. Snap up a new release … Continue reading
Pulled from the Pages: The Essential Charles Bruce
If you’ve ever complained that poetry is just too hard or that it makes no sense, well, you’ve been reading the wrong poetry books! But seriously, though, while I love a good meaty poem bursting with poetic devices and figurative … 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.
