New collection highlights established and emergent women poets of the Townships

Studio Georgeville’s most recent publication, Emergence: Contemporary Women Poets of the Eastern Townships of Quebec, is an attractive book, with an unusual genesis involving Angela Leuck and Louise Abbott, who both wear multiple hats.
Angela Leuck, who acquired Shoreline Press last year and moved the small publishing house to Hatley, is an award-winning poet with several titles to her credit; she is also a teacher, editor, and public speaker, and now a publisher. Louise Abbott is a founding member of Studio Georgeville, and a prize-winning documentary filmmaker, photographer, and author who has published several books.
Emergence is their second collaboration. In 2019 they published Water Lines: New Writing from the Eastern Townships of Quebec, an anthology of poetry and prose on the theme of water. Studio Georgeville published Water Lines and donated profits from the sales to two water conservation organizations in the region.
While Louise Abbott is a longtime Townships resident, Angela Leuck is a relative newcomer, having arrived with her husband, poet and publisher Steve Luxton, in 2013.

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