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Canadian Audio Publisher based in Newfoundland and Labrador. Rattling Books produces audio books and other spoken word audio recordings in the style of a small literary press.
Audio and MP3-CDs and MP3 Digital Downloads.
Poetry & Unabridged Literary Fiction / Historical Outdoor Adventure based Non-Fiction / Children's / Radio Doc's coming soon
NEW
FROM CANADA'S POET LAUREATE
JOHN STEFFLER
comes the audio edition of his classic
The Grey Islands
A modern classic of Canadian poetry, The Grey Islands is one man's meditation on the interplay between nature and human society in the rugged setting of coastal Newfoundland. The boats and houses of those who tried to live on the Grey Islands have disappeared, but their stories survive in the neighboring settlements - stories of treks on the sea ice, of near-starvation, of hunting ducks at night with muskets loaded with everything from nails to the parts of a gold pocket watch.
This is a book of such excellence that someone in future is liable to say about the author: "Steffler - Steffler? - oh yes, he wrote The Grey Islands, didn't he?"
- Al Purdy, Books in Canada
The Grey Islands is a piece of genius, a psychological drama in poetry and prose...
- Andrew Brooks, Canadian Literature
these birds
by John Steffler from The Grey Islands
these birds again. skimming
the water gullies all their lives
dodging the grabbing waves until
they can't.
and that's okay.
slipping into the only thing
they ever looked at
the thing they were only ever
an inch above.
Attention Libraries and Librarians:
Digital Downloads of Rattling Books for Libraries are now available through overdrive.com.
This is a call to all those who write about WOMEN. What does a WOMAN mean in 2009? You can use your sister, your mother, your bestfriend, someone who inspires you...etc. You can use a character depiction or can use a triumphant situation or surprise us.
Oneal Walters
The only Poetry Contest you need to enter this year.
FULL DETAILS at www.myspace.com/onealwalters
Oneal Walters “the love poet” had the most successful contest in Conceit Magazine history. From Conceit Magazine, editor
The new issue is available for purchase at our website: www.absurdistjournal.com/current.htm
Issue #8 demonstrates why this journal has been hailed as the figurehead publication for absurd and surreal literature. Throughout these pages readers will find a man with an endless supply of money in his pockets, a nun who finds teeth in her ice cream cone, and a giant mechanized Michael Ironside stalking the streets of Galveston, Texas. Readers will also find the apocalypse as experienced by the cast of Friends and a race of chickens that enslaves a man and forces him to eat the last egg ever to be eaten. No one theme or tone dominates this issue. Some stories feature mindless violence or irreal nonsense. Others display sharp cultural satire or brain-tingling wordplay. At a time when most fiction serves up the standard fare of realism and common sense, issue #8 offers a zany feast for the ravenous imagination.
Includes stories by Sam Pink, Blake Butler, D. Harlan Wilson, Rhys Hughes, Ofelia Hunt, Cameron Pierce, Mike Young, Matthew Simmons, Darby Larson, Aaron Sitze, and Adam Breckenridge.
This is a call to all poets who write about WOMEN. Write about someone who inspires you. You can use a character depiction or can use a triumphant situation or surprise us. "ALL" writers welcomed, original and unpublished entries. Winners will be notified in April, 2009 by Oneal Walters, and their names published here. All poems remain the property of the poet.
1st Place $110 US, plus interviewed, 2nd Place $60 US 3rd Place $30 US
Hey – just a reminder to listen in FRIDAY afternoons (all summer long)at 4:30-6 pm CST to hear LETTERS FROM VAL on “This Great White North” an ALL CANADIAN music show from Austin, Texas It’s on www.koop.org 91.7 KOOP-FM
BASS SLAM win £500, Fri 27 Jun, Peepul Centre - Leicester
Introducing the spoken word slam - expect an evening of explosive verbal impact as artists compete to become the Bass Festival's first slam champion and win a £500 artist development bursary.
Judges include Stephanie Hernandez - Apples & Snakes, Dave 'Stickman' Higgins - Blackdrop Spoken Word, Lydia Towsey - Chair of Word, Compered by Carol Leeming (The Mainstream Partnership)
To enter the slam please arrive at the venue's registration desk at 7pm on the night.
Be the FIRST to Win an Oneal Walters Love Poem Contest! (Offering the largest prizes given by a CONCEIT MAGAZINE author) Click the banner, then read the blog on "Love Poem Contest" for full details!
The only Poetry Contest you need to enter this year!
Deadline JUNE 6
www.myspace.com/conceitmagazine Contest hosted by the great people at Conceit Magazine.
Howdy, Rattling Books! Pearl loves to listen to her iPod especially when she is out in the field plowing. It helps her to stay awake. Tractors at top speed go very very slow. Best wishes to you from the Barkers on the Dogtown farm!
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