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The MQUP Fall 2013 catalogue is here! (Click here if you...

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:59:00 -0400

The MQUP Fall 2013 catalogue is here!

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From The Architecture of Andrew Thomas Taylor by Susan...

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:08:18 -0400

From The Architecture of Andrew Thomas Taylor by Susan Wagg.

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From The Video Art of Sylvia Safdie by Eric Lewis

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:12:46 -0400

From The Video Art of Sylvia Safdie by Eric Lewis

George Fetherling at the Toronto book launch of his new book The...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:21:49 -0400

George Fetherling at the Toronto book launch of his new book The Writing Life

Margaret Thatcher

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:15:28 -0400

“‘You know Alan … they may get rid of me for this.’ But, she added, ‘it would be in a worthwhile cause. At least, I shall have gone knowing I did the right thing.’” Margaret Thatcher, from Women in Power

Join us to celebrate the launch of Miranda Campbell’s Out of the...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:37:43 -0400

Join us to celebrate the launch of Miranda Campbell’s Out of the Basement: Youth Cultural Production and Policy.

Campbell will host a panel discussion with young cultural producers and cultural entrepreneurs who are profiled in the book (Noah Bick, Passovah Productions; Meyer Billurcu, Blue Skies Turn Black; Risa Dickens, Indyish / Yelp; Lily Lanken, The Mittenstrings; Hilary Leftick, COLLE / Pop Montreal). Together, they will discuss the current realities and issues facing young cultural producers and cultural entrepreneurs attempting to make a living from small-scale self-generated creative projects .

To the Spring, by Night Online Book Launch

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:02:00 -0400

April 12th 2 pm EDT on Shindig.com

McGill-Queen’s is honoured to be introducing Seyhmus Dagtekin’s evocative work to an English audience for the first time. Dagtekin’s To the Spring, by Night is the magical evocation of a childhood spent in a small Kurdish mountain village in Turkey, with no electricity and little literacy, but with a rich tradition of tale-telling and legend that infuses every living thing, every rock, stream, and spring with its own spirit and inner life.

We follow the young protagonist as his horizons expand and share his real and imaginary fears as we come to know his isolated community, whose only contact with the outside world is through the male inhabitants’ compulsory military service and the smuggling that takes them down from the heights and onto the plain below. Changing seasons, family intrigues, feast and famine, all run their course in the shadow of an imposing citadel overlooking the village, long ago abandoned by mysterious forerunners who may have left a hidden treasure behind. At a graceful pace, details emerge about the village’s history until a shocking truth is revealed.

Join us here for a conversation between the author of To the Spring, by Night, Seyhmus Dagtekin and translator Donald Winkler.

Seyhmus Dagtekin is a Kurdish poet and writer. Writing in Kurdish, Turkish, and French, he is the winner of the Mallarmé Poetry Prize, 2007, and the Théophile Gautier Poetry Prize, 2008. He lives in Paris.
Donald Winkler is a prolific filmmaker and Governor General’s Award-winning literary translator. He lives in Montreal.

To learn more about To the Spring, by Night, or to order online, click here.
For media inquiries, contact MQUP publicist Jacqui Davis.

The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Charles Taylor Prize 2013,...

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:54:00 -0400

The Agenda with Steve Paikin: Charles Taylor Prize 2013, including Sandra Djwa, author of Journey with No Maps (beginning at 16:44).

Reblog if you're a book blog!

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:26:54 -0400

thegirlwhoatenothingbutbooks:

I wanna find and follow you all! It can be like a huge, all around the world, book club! So, please reblog?

Happy World Poetry Day!

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:06:03 -0400

From Wavelengths of Your Song by Eleonore Schonmaier

WEIGHTLESS

At the water’s edge
is an empty canoe
open to the pouring

in of starlight;
it’s inconceivable to bail
the light out

once it has been
(however briefly)
carried –

From Women’s Work, Women’s Art: Nineteenth-Century...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:25:38 -0400

Figurine representing hunter Dena'ina, 1840. Tanned caribou hide, wood, human hair, glass beads, red ochre, sinew.

Summer moccasin-trousers. Late nineteenth century. Caribou hide, sinew, glass beads.

Moccasin-trousers. Drawing Dorothy K. Burnham.

An unidentified Tanana sub-chief with his wife and child, early twentieth century.

Detail of bead-woven legging band on moccasin-trousers. A group of warp threads is held taut on a bow, as with quillweaving.

Blanket stitch edging with beads. The edge of a piece of fabric is over-stitched with thread; between each two stitches, a bead is introduced. Drawing: Dorothy K. Burnham.

From Women’s Work, Women’s Art: Nineteenth-Century Northern Athapaskan Clothing by Judy Thompson.

Garments made from tanned animal hides afforded Northern Athapaskans protection against a harsh northern environment, but the striking features of this clothing are also a distinctive part of the traditional culture of the Indigenous peoples of North America’s western subarctic. Beautifully decorated with quillwork, fringes, and pigments, they provide a means of artistic expression signifying ethnic identity and conveying information about the physical, social, and spiritual well-being of the wearer.

Women’s Work, Women’s Art, the culmination of over forty years of research, is the first comprehensive study of this little-known aspect of Athapaskan culture. Encompassing all Northern Athapaskan groups, it chronicles a period that saw significant change in Aboriginal culture and the persistence of ancient traditions among the women who made and adorned this clothing. Individual chapters address the various roles and functions of clothing in Athapaskan societies, the technology of clothing production and design, and characteristic regional styles.

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The Merger Delusion aka “If It Ain’t Broke Fix It...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:56:51 -0400

The Merger Delusion aka “If It Ain’t Broke Fix It Till It Is”

“Knot” by Eleonore Schönmaier from Wavelengths of...

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:11:46 -0400

“Knot” by Eleonore Schönmaier from Wavelengths of Your Song

March 12th, 5 pm - Inside the NDP War Room book...

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:35:10 -0500

March 12th, 5 pm - Inside the NDP War Room book launch, McLean’s Pub, Montreal

Peter Trent on The Huffington Post Peter Trent in the Globe...

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:53:00 -0500

Peter Trent on The Huffington Post

Peter Trent in the Globe & Mail

Listen to Donald Savoie discuss his new book on RCI Whatever...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:20:00 -0500

Listen to Donald Savoie discuss his new book on RCI

Whatever Happened to the Music Teacher eBook now at a reduced price on Google Play, Kindle, Kobo and Nook.

Wavelengths of Your Song by Eleonore Schönmaier, visual notebook

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 10:41:35 -0500

Wavelengths of Your Song by Eleonore Schönmaier, visual notebook

Photo

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:26:05 -0500

to be empty on the shore is to watchbeauty as it crawls into...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:19:00 -0500

to be empty
on the shore

is to watch
beauty as it

crawls into
your hollows:

Wavelengths of Your Song by Eleonore Schonmaier

Photos of The Mirror of the Worlde book launch at Burford...

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:24:41 -0500

Photos of The Mirror of the Worlde book launch at Burford Priory, Oxfordshire, where the 1598 manuscript was first found.

The Mirror of the Worlde, edited by Lesley Peterson, is the first full transcription of Elizabeth Cary’s manuscript translation of L’Epitome du Théâtre du Monde d’Abraham Ortelius (c. 1588). Dedicated to her mother’s well-connected aristocratic uncle, Sir Henry Lee, The Mirror of the Worlde - one of the first known English versions of Ortelius - is a rich source of information about her childhood and education, the writers who influenced her, and the emerging themes and preoccupations that would come to inform her later work.

Click here to learn more