Season’s Greetings, friends of Descant.

It’s the time of year when gift-giving is on everyone’s mind and Descant is pleased to bring you some last minute ideas to help satisfy the tastes of everyone on your list. Visit our Special Merchandise Paypal page now: http://www.descant.ca/purchase.html

Want to share the good stuff Descant has done in 2009? Our 4-issue Holiday Gift Bundle includes the four most recent issues of Descant — a $60 value — for only $25.

We also offer 2009 releases by several key Descant-eers: editor-in-chief Karen Mulhallen’s  Acquainted with Absence. Selected Poems is available for $26; managing editor Mark Laliberte’s latest poetry chapbook, Suture Series Fragment A: It looked like rain. is available for $6; Descant co-editor Michelle Alfano’s Made Up of Arias is available for $21.

Finally, you can stock up on products from Descant’s outreach project, NOW HEAR THIS!, such as our brand new NHT! t-shirt for $22, or The Armadillo, our 2008 NHT! anthology of student writing for $15.

Shipping costs are already included in the sale price of all the products featured in our store; order by December 11 (within Canada) to ensure delivery by Christmas!

From all of us at Descant, we wish you a wonderful holiday season!