Roland Prevost interviewed over at Touch the Donkey

A new interview with Chaudiere Books author Roland Prevost posted this week over at Touch the Donkey.

Rob Thomas reviews Monty Reid's Garden (2014) at Apartment613

Ottawa poet Rob Thomas was good enough to review Monty Reid's Garden (2014) over at Apt 613. Thanks, Rob! See the original piece here.

This is the second review of Garden, after Douglas Barbour was good enough to review such over at his blog. And of course, to order a copy online, head over to AllLitUp!

Douglas Barbour reviews Amanda Earl's Kiki

Edmonton poet and critic Douglas Barbour reviews Amanda Earl's Kiki (2014) over at his electric ruckus blog. Thanks so much, Doug! You can see the full review here. This is actually the third review of Kiki, after Jonathan Ball in the Winnipeg Free Press, and Matthew J. Hall in the Small Press Book Review. And of course, you can now directly purchase her book online here!

Chaudiere co-publisher interview in The New Quarterly

The print edition of The New Quarterly #132 includes an interview Claire Tacon conducted with Chaudiere Books co-publishers Christine McNair and rob mclennan on their most recent books, and the Chaudiere Books re-launch! Also, a new short story by rob mclennan!

Chris Turnbull and Nikki Reimer at the AB Series,

Chaudiere Books author Chris Turnbull (Continua, forthcoming 2015) reads in Ottawa alongside Calgary poet Nikki Reimer at the AB Series on Thursday, November 20, 2014! See the AB Series website for information, here.

Monty Reid on Literary Landscapes, CKCU (podcast,

In case you missed it, Monty Reid [photo by Pearl Pirie] was on Pearl Pirie's Literary Landscapes last night on CKCU, talking about his new poetry book, Garden. Fortunately, the episode lives online as a podcast! You can listen to such here.

Brian Mikok reviews rob mclennan's The Uncertainty Principle: stories, in Rain Taxi

Brian Mihok was good enough to review rob mclennan's The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (Chaudiere Books, 2014) over at Rain Taxi. Thanks, Brian!

Chaudiere Books at the ottawa small press book fair

We will once again be participating in the semi-annual ottawa small press book fair, which will be held on Saturday, November 8, 2014 at the Jack Purcell Community Centre! Come over and check out our books!

Pirie and Prevost on Petrie Island: rout/e

Chaudiere author Chris Turnbull recently posted that two further Chaudiere authors--Pearl Pirie and Roland Prevost--have poems posted ("5 Poets at Petrie Island") as part of her ongoing rout/e project, and she includes a report on such on the rout/e website. As she writes: "Poets David Groulx, Roland Prevost, Pearl Pirie, Sandra Ridley, and Blaine Marchand have poems appearing at Petrie Island as part of rout/e! The poems will be placed by Katherine Forster, Coordinator at Petrie Island, and Chris Turnbull, in time for Thanksgiving (Canadian). What a lovely display case the Petrie Island folks have built for their displays…The poems will be placed in these for discovery on self-guided walks…thanks, all, for participating." 

Pearl Pirie also posted a report (with photos) of the same on her own blog (from which this photo was lifted).

Roland Prevost and Pearl Pirie in Kempvtille, November 15, 2014;

Chaudiere Books at Canzine!

Yesterday, we participated in our first ever Canzine in Toronto (above/ground press did participate in some of the first few Canzines, but that was way, way back in the 1990s) and spent the day selling books to a wide array of crowd, audience and exhibitors! And it even allowed us to see a variety of other friends/presses, including Coach House Books, BookThug and Grey Borders, as well as Jay and Hazel MillAr, Aisha Sasha John, Daniel Scott Tysdal, Andrew Wilmot, Cary Fagan, Jim Munroe, Jack Illingsworth and plenty of other Toronto-area writers and publishers. Christine and Rose the Intern were around for the first couple of hours, and, thanks to Rose, Canzine set up what might have been its first ever change-table! Thanks to all who came by to visit, and even pick up a title or two!

And now: only two other book fairs this month: the ottawa small press book fair (November 8: Ottawa) and Meet the Presses (November 22: Toronto).