Frontenac House

Frontenac House Frontenac House is an award-winning literary press located in Okotoks, AB, Canada.

08/25/2026

Where's your story?
A few weeks left to submit to Constellations of Becoming: Q***r Futures and Other Worlds
In present day, we need more stories of representation.

Happy Birthday to - author extraordinaire! Thank you for your books.
08/24/2026

Happy Birthday to - author extraordinaire! Thank you for your books.

Once again, shout out to the independent booksellers. This time we spot in the wild Billy-Ray Belcourt’s This Wound is a...
08/23/2026

Once again, shout out to the independent booksellers. This time we spot in the wild Billy-Ray Belcourt’s This Wound is a World at Munro's Books in Victoria. Thanks for supporting the independent presses!

Without independent booksellers, independent presses could not exist. A shout goes out to Russell Books in Victoria wher...
08/22/2026

Without independent booksellers, independent presses could not exist. A shout goes out to Russell Books in Victoria where we found a copy of D.S. Stymeist’s The Bone Weir, just waiting for a good home.

Calgary. Sept 20th at 11:15am Rosso Coffee Roasters in Inglewood. Lori D. Roadhouse Haney curates this special reading. ...
08/22/2026

Calgary. Sept 20th at 11:15am Rosso Coffee Roasters in Inglewood. Lori D. Roadhouse Haney curates this special reading. will feature, with , .

Congratulations Basma Kavanaugh on this musical shortlisting! Niche is one of our all time favourites. Compelled by loss...
08/19/2026

Congratulations Basma Kavanaugh on this musical shortlisting! Niche is one of our all time favourites.

Compelled by loss of knowledge, species, habitat and traditions, my intention with this collection is to elucidate the endurance of what is no longer physically apparent. Extinctions and an exploration of the Red List (the endangered species list for Nova Scotia) are important to this work. The poems grapple with human culpability, but also ask: What will happen as human relationships with non-human animals and other living things diminish? What will happen if we become extinct? These larger questions about our future in a changing climate are inextricably linked to specific inquiries into what we have lost by reducing certain habitats, hunting particular species to the brink of extinction, and abandoning place-specific traditions and practices. Our sadness surrounding extinction seems to confirm E. O. Wilson’s Biophilia (life-loving) hypothesis, our basic need for other life; however, a uniquely human self-loathing distances us from the very life-affirming and life-giving connections that we require. How do we move beyond despair? What happens after extinction? What is regained through the revival of traditions, the restoration of habitats, re-introductions of species? Is this a moment to be both patient and visionary, to see beyond destruction to whatever natural renewal will occur without more intervention, or should we cautiously explore the “re-animations” and “de-extinctions” proposed by the scientific community?
Winner of the 2016 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Order here: https://www.frontenachouse.com/product/niche/

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