Frontenac House Names a Guest Editor
Quartet 2011 will be Acquired and Edited by Richard Harrison
09.22.2009 – As the latest step in its program of publishing outstanding Canadian poetry, Frontenac House has created a Guest Editorship position for the upcoming Quartet 2011 series.
The purpose of the Guest Editor role is to help Frontenac continue to grow by bringing new eyes and energy to the work of the house in keeping with its already established high standards of editing and publishing.
The first Guest Editor is Richard Harrison. Harrison is well known as the author of six books of poetry, among them Big Breath of a Wish, published by Wolsak and Wynn, which was nominated for the Governor-General’s Award; and Hero of the Play, also published by Wolsak and Wynn, which is now in its 10th Anniversary Edition and is the first book of poetry launched at the Hockey Hall of Fame. Richard’s poetry has been published world-wide in literary journals such as the Malahat Review and Canadian Literature, has been quoted in the Globe & Mail and the New York Times, and translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.
Richard is currently a professor at Calgary’s Mount Royal University, specializing in composition, graphic novels, and Creative Writing (poetry). As a continuation of his work as a teacher of poetry, he runs a workshop through the Alexandra Centre for students from his advanced classes in Creative Writing as well as writers from the community. Students from his classes and the writers in his workshops have gone on to publish in Canada’s best literary journals and most active and notable literary presses: Malahat Review, Antigonish Review, and FreeFall; Black Moss Press, The University of Calgary Press, Leaf Press. And yes, Frontenac House.
Richard also has an extensive editorial background. In addition to serving on several editorial boards and juries, among them the Canada Council and the Alberta Writers Guild, he has helped prepare over 20 books for publication for such houses as Wolsak and Wynn, Brick, Black Moss, The University of Calgary Press, Banff Centre Press, Leaf, McClelland & Stewart, and Random House.
ABOUT FRONTENAC HOUSE
Frontenac House has brought out approximately 40 books of poetry since the company’s inception in 2000. It’s Quartet series of four poetry titles published annually has been acclaimed as “one of CanLit’s most interesting ongoing projects” (Alberta Views, June 2009). To mark the company’s 10th anniversary, the Quartet concept will be extended to “Dektet 2010” – 10 books to be launched together in April of 2010. And we are greatly looking forward to Quartet 2011 under the distinguished direction of Richard Harrison as our first Guest Editor.
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- The first Guest Editor is Richard Harrison, a professor at Calgary's Mount Royal University.
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