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[Readings] Desi Di Nardo Co-Hosts Poetry Parade with Pierre DesRuisseaux

Guernica author Desi Di Nardo will be co-hosting Poetry Parade at The Annex Live on November 8th with Canada's poet laureate, Pierre DesRuisseaux.

The Annex Live
296 Brunswick Avenue [map]
Toronto, Ontario
Sunday, November 8, 2009 @ 7 pm

Also reading will be Max Layton, Armand Garnet Ruffo, and Toronto's new poet laureate, Dionne Brand. In addition, the night will feature live jazz, an art exhibit, and the winners of a high school poetry contest.

Desi Di Nardo is the author of The Plural of Some Things, published by Guernica Editions.

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Canada: University of Toronto Press Distribution (800-565-9523)
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Europe: Gazelle Book Services (0-152-46-87-65)

[Launch] Join us at Bar Italia on October 25

Guernica Editions is pleased to invite you to the launch of four new titles in our prestigious Prose Series.

Playing Naomi by Erika Rummel

Peace Tower by F.G. Paci

Octopus Intelligence by Timothy Quinn

Italy Revisited by Mary Melfi (read by Elana Wolff)

Join us at Bar Italia on Sunday, 25 October 2009, 2:00 - 4:00 PM. RSVP through Facebook is optional but appreciated: http://bit.ly/4mp0d9

The event is open to the public, so please forward this invitation to anyone you think would like to attend. Our launches are widely attended by the greater literary community, and we'd love to see you there!

[Readings] Desi Di Nardo at Free Times Cafe

Guernica author and NOW HEAR THIS! writer in residence Desi Di Nardo will be reading at the Free Times Cafe on Wednesday, October 21, as part of the fourth installment of the HEAR/HEAR Reading Series. Doors open at 6 pm for dinner and drinks.

Free Times Cafe
320 College Street [map]
Toronto, Ontario

Also reading will be Larry Frolick and Mary-Lou Zeitoun.

Desi Di Nardo is the author of The Plural of Some Things, published by Guernica Editions.

Order Online: Amazon.com
Canada: University of Toronto Press Distribution (800-565-9523)
USA: Independent Publishers Group (800-888-4741)
Europe: Gazelle Book Services (0-152-46-87-65)

[Appeal] OAC Funding Controversy Covered in the Canadian Jewish News

An article in the current issue of the Canadian Jewish News discusses the recent OAC funding cuts to Guernica Editions.

"Though serving the Italian community primarily," writes staff reporter Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf, "the publication also is home to a variety of ethnic wordsmiths, including a smattering of Jewish, award-winning authors and poets who are none-too-pleased by the provincial agency’s decision to reject this year’s grant application."

"[The withdrawal of funding] puts a financial strain on us,”publisher Antonio D'Alfonso is quoted as saying. “This isn’t a money-making job. Everyone who works with us works for peanuts... Are books like shoes, ham or potatoes? We are a literary press. We produce books about ethnic culture, cultural pluralism. This is a slow process. When we started, ‘multicultural’ barely existed as a term. Guernica was one of the first presses to deal with such issues.”

The full article can be read on the Canadian Jewish News website: http://bit.ly/4svYeP

[Appeal] Reader Responds to OAC

Tandem has published a reader response to the Ontario Arts Council's recent defense of this year's Guernica cutbacks.

[Review] Desi Di Nardo's The Plural of Some Things Reviewed in Prairie Fire

Guernica author Desi Di Nardo's latest collection, The Plural of Some Things, is reviewed by Roger Knox in the Praire Fire Review of Books.

"Desi Di Nardo's ecological poetic world extends beyond flora, fauna, and the inanimate to include human and spiritual interconnection," writes Knox. "These poems contain such powerful experiences that it is difficult to take our leave unaffected by them. We are enlightened by the discovery of a relationship of spiritual empowerment in 'Poetry on Lake Simcoe,' intrigued by mystery and the unconscious in 'The Abstract Night,' and enticed by sexual rapture in 'White Rain.' Whether confronting the dissembling self in 'Inner Landscapes,' dealing noncommittally with a parent's absent love in 'Forget You Not,' or expressing emotional repression in 'Red Spill of Adrenalin,' the poetry voices summon us to take heed. Meaningful interconnecting amid the surrounding turmoil becomes the most needful and redemptive process of all."

Read the full review at Prairie Fire.

The Plural of Some Things is available online or through Guernica's North American and European distributors:

Order Online: Amazon.com
Canada: University of Toronto Press Distribution (800-565-9523)
USA: Independent Publishers Group (800-888-4741)
Europe: Gazelle Book Services (0-152-46-87-65)