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Rattling Books 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 soonA publisher NOT JUST SMALL but fine.
Online.
Listen, a way to read more. rattlingbooks.com

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 .

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/23/2007
Band Website: rattlingbooks.com
Band Members: AuthorsCaptain Robert Bartlett
Michael Crummey
Mary Dalton
George Allan England
Mavis Gallant
Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Frank Holden
Joel Thomas Hynes (aka Joel Hynes)
Andy Jones
Robin McGrath
Don McKay
Lisa Moore
Helen Fogwill Porter
Susan Rendell
Janis Spence
Dillon Wallace
Agnes Walsh
David Weale
Michael Winter

Influences: Literary fiction, poetry, historical outdoor adventure based non-fiction, childrens' literature, oral history, spoken word, dialect, storytelling, audiobooks, Audio Books, Talking Books, CanLit, Newfoundland, Labrador, Ireland, England, English Language, English literature, Libraries, a particular Library, librarians, Iceland, Australia, Tasmania, New England, Boston, Arctic Exploration, extreme outdoor sports, seabirds, marine birds, islands, razorbills, manx shearwaters, leach's storm-petrels, Canadian writers, Canadian authors, Newfoundland writers, Newfoundland authors, Leonidas Hubbard, Rockwell Kent, Mina Hubbard, George Elson, William Coaker, Atlantic Puffins, Guillemots, codfish, cod, fish, capelin, caplin, morue, bacalao, MP3 Digital Downloads, ipods, MP3 CDs, MP3 Players, campus and community radio, Newfoundland Books, Labrador Books, Canadian Books, lots of Books, Dicionary of Newfoundland English, Memorial University of Newfoundland, maritime history, northwest Atlantic, CODCO, small presses, literature to listen to
Sounds Like:
MySpace MP3 Player at MyFlashFetish.com .

audio books, audiobooks, talking books, spoken word recordings, the human voice speaking, people narrating novels, telling stories and reading poems, oral history, a new aural tradition, earlit, hearlit, liplit

Performers :Anita Best
Rick Boland
Patrick Boyle
Michael Crummey
Chris Brookes
Margot Dionne
Angèle Dubeau
Antonia Francis
Merrill Francis
Greg Furlong
Deidre Gillard-Rowlings
Jonny Harris
Holly Hogan
Frank Holden
Darryl Hopkins
Joel Thomas Hynes (aka Joel Hynes)
Ron Hynes
Andy Jones
John Joy
Robert Joy
Mary Lewis
Don McKay
Lisa Moore
George Morgan
Liz Pickard
Susan Rendell
Jody Richardson
Jay Roberts
Janet Russell
Simone Savard-Walsh
Christina Smith
Janis Spence
John Steffler
Francesca Swann
Agnes Walsh
Sherry White
POETRY :

In the Old Country of My Heart
by Agnes Walsh

Hard Light: 32 Little Stories
by Michael Crummey

Merrybegot
by Mary Dalton

Coasting Trade
by Robin McGrath

The Grey Islands
by John Steffler

Songs for the Songs of Birds
by Don McKay

FICTION :

Donovan's Station
by Robin McGrath

on the beach in spanish room
by Janis Spence

In the Chambers of the Sea
by Susan Rendell

Open
by Lisa Moore

Down to the Dirt
by Joel Thomas Hynes (aka Joel Hynes)

Montreal Stories
by Mavis Gallant

Letters From Uncle Val
by Andy Jones

Judge Prowse Presiding
by Frank Holden

The Big Why
by Michael Winter

Below the Bridge
by Helen Fogwill Porter

CHILDREN'S FICTION :

The True Meaning of Crumbfest
by David Weale

HISTORICAL OUTDOOR ADVENTURE NON-FICTION :

Adrift on an Ice Pan
by Wilfred Grenfell

The Last Voyage of the Karluk
by Captain Robert Bartlett

The Lure of the Labrador Wild
by Dillon Wallace

Vikings of the Ice
by George Allan England


Record Label: Rattling Books
Type of Label: Indie

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Rattling Books Releases new audio title: Songs for the Songs of Birds by Don McKay

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Winning entries from our Resolution Contest

Here, for your reading pleasure and lexical edification, are the winning entries of the REDEFiNE iT New Year's Resolution Contest:The Winner: Andreae ProzeskyMy merrybegot, who may be a moss-child, bu...
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New Years Resolution Contest Winners Announced!

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Posted by Rattling Books on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:57:00 PST

Judges confirmed for New Year’s Resolution Contest

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Latest REDEFiNE iT Contest Entry

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New Year’s Resolution

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New Year’s Resolution Contest! December 31 - January 14

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