Wishing everyone the very best over the holiday season and into the New Year. 2009 certainly was an amazing year for us with lots of joy (our little baby Emma and a new home) along with a good helping of change (relocating Bytown Bookshop to the Ottawa Antique Market). Here’s hoping 2010 holds the same [...]
For those artistically inclined, here is a new use for those old excess books that may may be accumulating around the house. If many enjoy the fine art of fore-edge painting, why not the spine and covers!
A final fair warning to patrons of our bookshop, this Saturday, the 19th, will be our last day open at the 21 Arlington location. Books are still 50% off, so be certain to stop by and fill a bag or two for the holidays Starting in January I will be setting up some regular hours [...]
25th annual OCAD Book Arts Fair 10.00am to 5.00pm, Saturday December 5, 2009 Great Hall, Ontario College of Art & Design 100 McCaul St. Toronto, Ontario Every year in December, book artists, printmakers, papermakers, and private press printers gather at OCAD to show their work and demonstrate their skills in OCAD’s Great Hall and Printmaking [...]
There seemed to have been a groundswell of poetry wandering into the shop over the past week. We recieved late last week the fourth volume in the Porcupine’s Quill Essential Poets Series which provides an excellent selection of James Reaney’s work (review to come shortly). Then the weekend saw two great poetry events take place in town, the first being a [...]