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To continue our celebration of Poetry Month, today’s guest blogger is MQUP editor and award-winning writer, Mark Abley.

Poetry has many roots, many functions. One of its functions is elegy. One of its roots is the human need to recall and celebrate the dead. What I attempted to do in my poem “A Labrador Duck” is to … Read More >

Janet Epp Buckingham, author of Fighting over God: A Legal and Political History of Religious Freedom in Canada, was on CBC’s Sunday Edition in a special public forum to discuss the role of religion in Canadian civic discourse and public policy. Listen here. 

We’re pleased to have Janet as today’s guest blogger.

I was recently part of a … Read More >

Happy Friday! Here is the weekly round-up of MQUP news and events.

Some Dance
Online reading by Ricardo Sternberg

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We’ve got lots to celebrate for Poetry Month!

Along with the titles in the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, currently on SALE, we also want to showcase the incredible poetic talent we have among us at McGill-Queen’s.

Jack Hannan, MQUP Sales Manager, released his first full-length poetry collection, entitled some frames, with Cormorant … Read More >

CBC’s The Sunday Edition is hosting a live forum tonight at 7pm in Toronto called The Public God, a provocative discussion about the role of religion in government and public policies. Fighting over God author Janet Epp Buckingham will be a panellist.

All Torontonians are invited to attend this FREE event and contribute to the conversation. We … Read More >

Filmmaker, activist, and educator John Greyson will be in Montreal this Wednesday, April 9, to participate in two events at Concordia University.

Strategies and Tactics: Networks and Spaces of Solidarity and Activism is an event organized by Concordia’s Cinema Studies Graduate Students Colloquium Series. There will be a special screening of John Greyson’s new work-in-progress, entitled … Read More >

This is the weekly round-up of MQUP news and events.

Happy Poetry Month!
We’re celebrating with a BIG SALE 

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The following excerpt is from Felicity Tayler’s review of Paul-Émile Borduas, by François-Marc Gagnon, translated by Peter Feldstein, in the MRB spring 2014 issue.

Walter Benjamin argues that a translation is the transposition of a text from one language to another as both a renewal of the original work and a revival for succeeding generations or … Read More >

We are thrilled to announce that two of our authors have been shortlisted for the 2013/2014 Donner Book Prize.

CONGRATULATIONS to Miranda Campbell, author of Out of the Basement, and Gregory Taylor, author of Shut Off.

From the Donner Prize website:

The prestigious Donner Prize, established in 1998, annually rewards excellence and innovation in public … Read More >

Happy National Poetry Month! This April is the 16th annual, nation-wide celebration of poetry and its vital place in Canadian culture. To mark this important month, we’re having a BIG SALE.

Receive a 30% discount on all of our poetry titles in the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, named in honour of the … Read More >