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Argo Bookshop in Montreal will be hosting a dual launch of the recently released books on John Glassco: Brian Busby’s A Gentleman of Pleasure (McGill-Queen's Press) & Carmine Starnino’s
John Glassco and the Other Montreal (Frog Hollow Press).

The Writers’ Chapel
St. James the Apostle Anglican Church
1439 Ste-Catherine Ouest at 7 pm on April 27, 2012

2012 – FORTHCOMING BOOKS

We Are Not the Bereaved
Poetry by Jesse Eckerlin
Cover art by Joshua Bastien
Smyth-sewn book — soft cover — coloured illustrations.
Limited editions of 100 numbered copies, page count tba.
ISBN 978-1-926948-05-8 price tba.

Commentary on a Non-Existent Self-Portrait
Poetry by Katie Jordon
Smyth-sewn book — soft cover — coloured illustrations.
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies, page count tba.
ISBN 978-1-926948-06-5 price tba.

2011 releases

Exhibition Catalogue
Poetry by Claire Sharpe
Smyth-sewn — soft cover — colour illustrations.
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. 32 pp.
ISBN 978-0-9865437-8-4 $24.00

Elegies
Poetry by Madeline Bassnett
Hand-sewn chapbook — soft cover — wrap — colour illustrations.
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. 32 pp.
ISBN 978-1-926948-04-1 $21.50

Homing Instinct
Poetry by Shoshanna Wingate
Hand-sewn chapbook — soft cover — wrap — colour illustrations.
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. 32 pp.
ISBN 978-1-926948-03-4 $21.50

John Glassco and the Other Montreal
Canadian Masters Series, Vol. 2
Selections and introductions by Carmine Starnino.
Portrait of John Glassco by Wesley Bates.
ISBN 978-0-9735847-1-4 (cloth-over-boards) $60.00
Limited edition of 40 numbered copies. 88pp.
798-0-9735847-5-2 (Smyth-sewn soft cover) $40.00
Limited edition of 70 numbered copies. 88 pp.

The Thing About Things
Short fiction by Andrew Hood.
ISBN 978-0-9865437-9-1 (hard-cover) $50.00
Limited edition of 30 numbered copies. 40 pp.
978-1-926948-00-3 (Smyth-sewn soft cover) $30.00
Limited edition of 70 numbered pages. 40 pp.

Literary Criticism Monographs:

#1   Fatherhood: The Poetry of Wayne Clifford
by Shane Neilson. Hand-sewn chapbook.
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. 36 pp.
ISBN 978-1-926948-01-0 $15.00

#2  Proofs & Equational Love: The Poetry of Jim Johnstone
by Jason Guriel and Shane Neilson. Hand-sewn chapbooks.
Limited edition of 100 numbered copies. 32 pp.
ISBN 978-1-926948-02-7 $15.00

Please see the Catalogue section for details about these
books — clicking on the individual titles will take you
to that specific listing.
The Catalogue section also contains information about
our earlier titles and our latest sale prices.

REVIEWS

Phillip Crymble, "Show Me the Way to Go Home: Place & Belonging in Shoshanna Wingate’s Homing Instinct" in The Fiddlehead,
March 14, 2012.

George Fetherling, "Remembering Glassco" in CNQ (Canadian Notes & Queries), Number 83, Summer/Fall 2011, pp. 82-84. Review of Brian Busby’s A Gentleman of Pleasure and Carmine Starnino’s
John Glassco and the Other Montreal.

Andrew Lesk, "Two Books on John Glassco" in The Malahat Review, Number 176, Fall 2011. Reviews of Brian Busby's A Gentleman of Pleasure (Montreal, McGill-Queen's, 2011) and our John Glassco and the Other Montreal, essay and selections by Carmine Starnino.

Jason Guriel, "The Murk of Poem-Stuff", in CNQ, Number 81, Winter/Spring 2011, pp. 83-86.
A review of Approaches to Poetry: the pre-poem moment
(edited & introduced by Shane Neilson).

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