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We are delighted to announce that Journey with No Maps, by Sandra Djwa, has been awarded the 2014 Canada Prize in the Humanities.
CONGRATULATIONS to Sandra!
From the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences website:
Jury’s citation: Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page by Sandra Djwa is … Read More >
National Poetry Month is drawing to a close this week, but don’t worry! Our poetry month sale will be going strong until mid-May. The online sale features all titles in the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series, including our newest releases, Some Dance, by Ricardo Sternberg, and Outside, Inside, by Michael Penny. Click here
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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 >