Whiteout managed to sneak on the Quill and Quire’s bestseller list for poetry in the two weeks before it was even published. Beaten out by Homer, Roo, Don, Pablo, and Tim, but beating out Irving, Billy, Tupac, Dante, Leonard, Seamus, and Ovid. Not bad… Launching tonight in St. John’s, too. See posts below.
From Tupac Shakur to Don McKay, this week’s bestsellers list honours National Poetry Month. For the two weeks ending March 25:
1. The Iliad, Homer; Stephen Mitchell, trans.
(Simon & Schuster Canada, $35 cl, 9781439163375)
2. Rain; road; an open boat, Roo Borson
(McClelland & Stewart, $18.99 pa, 9780771012983)
3. Paradoxides, Don McKay
(M&S, $18.99 pa, 9780771055096)
4. The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, Pablo Neruda; Ilan Stavans, ed.
(Farrar, Straus & Giroux/D&M Publishers, $21.95 pa, 9780374529604)
5. Assiniboia, Tim Lilburn
(M&S, $18.99 pa, 9780771050084)
6. Whiteout, George Murray
(ECW Press, $18.95 pa, 9781770410879)