At Pedlar Press, our commitment to excellence is unwavering. We choose works whose merits are unmistakeable. We hope, as Emily Dickinson said, to blow the roofs off readers’ heads, with fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Canadian writers of excellence.
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“If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?”
Coming in 2020:
March 28 Barbara Nichol at VerseFest Ottawa
April 8 Alan Reed, Cathy Stonehouse and Kyeren Regehr at Pages in Calgary
April 9 Alan Reed, Cathy Stonehouse and Kyeren Regehr at Audrey’s in Edmonton
April 17 Kyeren Regehr at Planet Earth Poetry Victoria
April 24 or 25 Stan Dragland at 1000 Islands Gananoque ON
April 25 Alan Reed launch in Montreal TBC
May 2 Martha Baillie at Ottawa SPR Festival Ottawa
May 3 Martha Baillie at GritLit Hamilton
May 3 Cathy Stonehouse at GritLit Hamilton
May 4 Martha Baillie, Cathy Stonehouse and Ronna Bloom at Ben McNally Books TO
June 7 Stan Dragland at GritLit Hamilton
AUG 18 Stan Dragland at Woody Point Writers Festival, NL
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The 2019 list:
