It’s been a long hiatus for us over here at TERU… turns out getting married takes up WAY more of your time than you’d think, even when the wedding is simply and lovely. But now that we’re all done celebrating our nuptials, we’re ready to celebrate the release of our two fabulous new chapbooks: Julie Cameron Gray’s Coordinating Geometry and Nick Lea’s Actual Girl! And of course all of our older, but not any less fabulous, chapbooks and broadsides will be available for your purchasing pleasure, too.

Both books will be available at the Ottawa Small Press Fair this Saturday (12-5) at the Jack Purcell Community Centre (320 Jack Purcell Lane). Nick’s also reading at the Carleton Tavern the night before, if you prefer your poetry out loud.

And to tide you over until then, we’ll be on the Ottawa airwaves today, just in time for rush hour! Tune in to Click here today (Wednesday Nov. 2) at 5 pm, on CHUO-FM89, for an interview with yours truly.

We’ll be trotting out a lone new(ish) title for the Meet the Presses Screaming Chapbook Market on Saturday, July 9 – Stowaway by the lovely Carey Toane. Here’s the details:

Meet the Presses Screaming Chapbook Market
Saturday, July 9, noon till 5 pm
Clinton’s Tavern, 693 Bloor West
FREE ADMISSION!

Presented by the Meet the Presses Collective
meetthepresses@gmail.com

A Scream Unfestival event

We’ve woken early from our winter slumber to bring you, courtesy of the lovely Sachiko Murakami, a brand new broadside, Another Spring: a renga in twenty-seven parts for Japan.

Featuring a collaborative poem penned by a range of fabulously talented poets, each broadside sells for only $10, with all proceeds going to Second Harvest Japan.

We’re super pleased and honoured to have been asked to take part and donate to such a worthy cause – and to that end, we’re asking you to help us sell out our first print run! A framed broadside would make a thoughtful Mother’s Day gift…

Head on over to rob mclennan’s blog for a glimpse into Dinosaur Porn, the anthology we put out in 2009 with the equally fabulous Ferno House. DP’s been an international bestseller (it was a hit at the Brooklyn Book Festival) and there are still a few copies availble… drop us a line if you want to get your mitts on a copy.

We’re delighted to share an invitation Mansfield Press’s fall launch on Tuesday, October 14, where TERU cofounder Leigh Nash will be launching her first collection of poetry, Goodbye, Ukulele, alongside several other talented poets (and one non-fiction writer!).

Mansfield Press celebrates a decade of exciting literary publishing with the launch of five new books, readings by alumni of the press, door prizes, great conversation, munchies, and general hoopla! This party also marks the debut voyage of a new Mansfield imprint: “a stuart ross book”.

The launches:

Imagining Toronto — Amy Lavender Harris
Goodbye, Ukulele — Leigh Nash
At the Gates of the Theme Park — Peter Norman
Stray Dog Embassy — Natasha Nuhanovic
Winter Sport: Poems — Priscila Uppal

with guest appearances by Margaret Christakos, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, Corrado Paina, and Ann Shin — the full line-up from Mansfield’s first year!

Hosted by Denis De Klerck and Stuart Ross

In just over a week, we’re off to the Brooklyn Book Festival (September 12) – along with the fabulous Toronto Poetry Vendors - to hock our literary wares and test our luck at fame and fortune. We’ll have chapbooks and broadsides for sale, so tell all of your New York friends to swing by!

This coming Saturday, July 24, TERU will be participating in the Barns Art Market (BAM!) at Artscape Wychwood Barns (address: 601 Christie Street) from 10:00AM – 5:00PM.  Admission is free!

Come and peruse our selection of broadsides (designed for the 2010 Scream Literary Festival). The Barns Art Market is an exhibition and sale of artworks including painting, photography, ceramic arts and various other media … we’re told it takes place in the Covered Street (Barn 2) at the Artscape Wychwood Barns.

Also taking place on July 24 is  Event Horizon: a lecture and discussion on what it means to be avant-garde from 12-5pm at Of Swallows, Their Deeds, and the Winter Below (283 College St).

It’s here! We’ve produced broadsides for 10 of tonight’s 12 Scream in High Park Mainstage readers – Gil Adamson, Tony Burgess, Angela Carr, Brian Joseph Davis, Jeff Derksen, Linh Dinh, Michael Lista, Damian Rogers, Ken Sparling and Sherwin Tjia – with a mix of new and old work. Collect them all!

The ephemera we’ve produced for other Scream events will be available for purchase following the Scream, too. Visit our Etsy shop beginning July 14, 2010!

No, we didn’t partake in any of the G20 hootenanny last weekend.

We’ve partnered with a far more radical cause: This year, TERU is working with the Scream Literary Festival to produce limited-run chapbooks and broadsides for a variety of Scream events. For the next week, we’ll be your personal “chapmen” – though of a more gender-equal variety – and itinerant dealers in all things Scream.

Look for a full list of works we’ll be publishing soon.

One of our favourite bookstores ever, This Ain’t the Rosedale Library, has fallen upon hard times, and one of our favourite presses ever, Pedlar Press, is trying to help them out.

On Saturday, June 26, from 9 am to 1 pm, all Pedlar titles on the table will be $5 or $10. Half the proceeds will go to This Ain’t The Rosedale Library. Stop by the corner of Madison & Dupont, or in the event of rain, the porch at 191 Madison Avenue, south of Dupont. You can view the Pedlar Press catalogue here.