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Kate Sutherland has issued a challenge; she would like folks to post entries about poetry. There are even prizes. See her blog here.What else are you doing?I™ll be attending a multitude of events, including this Sunday™s Dusty Owl featuring Warren Dean Fulton, all the way from Vancouver; the Ottawa ...
in this cool documentary about the visual art/concrete poetry collectors Ruth and Marvin Sackner.about half way thru the film, Marvin opens a thick envelope from Canada, telling the audience that it is from John Curry, who he collects a lot. he sniffs the envelope and says śthis guy™s a smoker.ť he ...
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mic set was really fun, especially a poem by Rona Shaffran about ice and Susan McMaster™s reading from her memoir The Gargoyle™s Left Ear about a CBC poetry face off where she dared to read a poem about sex. Was nice to hear mention of folks like Kris Northey and Anthony Bansfield, who has one of th...
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t the room with a head full of imagery and syllables, which I™m keeping for later.Check out the latest issue of Ottawater.com. There are 156 pages of poetry, interviews and reviews. I'm really looking forward to reading the interviews with both Anne Le Dressay and David O'Meara, Anne's conducted by ...
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his first book, The Shadow Boxer (Vintage Canada Edition 2001), a new and hilarious work in progress about someone who teaches English in Japan, and poetry from his most recent collection The Address Book (House of Anansi Press, 2004), an older collection called The Ectascy of Skeptics (House of An...
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s originally from New Orleans and moved to Toronto in 2005 where she teaches literature and creative writing at Ryerson University.In addition to her poetry, she takes photos and makes collages. Sometimes these acts are combined. Her chapbooks include seasame kiosk (Potes & Poets, 2001), rogue embry...
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not just in Ottawa but to Canadians and to the world at large. As publisher of Chaudiere Books and above / ground press, author of numerous books of poetry, manager and instigator of the website ottawater.com, upcoming author of a book of Ottawa™s best kept secrets: Ottawa, the Unknown City (Arsena...
they often include more than just poetry, but for Nat™l Poetry Month it™s the poetry & poetics I™m concentrating on...Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory (founded 1965 in Victoria, BC), Frank Davey, the University of Western Ontario. Provides a venue for discussion of poetics, fasc...
read last night at the Factory Reading Series hosted (in rob's absentia) by Monty Reid.Mike read first from his new poetry collection śI™m not going to lie to youť (Pedlar Press, 2007) and then from a novel in progress that no one had heard until last night.One of the things I enjoyed about his poet...
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atured reader at the Dusty Owl yesterday. after reading a few poems from his Blackberry, which was very fitting since some of his poems in his latest poetry collection were created thru automatic handwriting recognition, he read from said collection śThe Real Made Upť (ECW Press, 2007).what i enjoy ...
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he had impregnated her himself and was thus the rapist author of his own creation. It was compensation for his father, who didn™t seem to exist.ťHer poetry was also great to hear. In her interview with Click Here radio host Mitchell Caplan on Wednesday, Emily mentioned that she adored words and esp...
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c this way by folks like Megan Hamilton, Mardeen, Wax Mannequin, Jen Grant and Royal Wood.There are lots of other great podcasts around too, also for poetry, but I find I have less patience for listening to podcasts for poetry. I™m not sure why. Penn Sound is good, and miPoRadio isn™t bad either, bu...
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blog yesterday, Marcus wrote a very interesting entry about reviews. i thought i™d just stick my oar in ...i don't see the point of harsh reviews in poetry. for one thing, those who writes harsh reviews often seem to have a bias, for example they may dislike experimental poetry and often with no ba...
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ist but only because i haven™t known Stuart for as long and he doesn™t live in Ottawa.Stuart is a doer and an innovator. have you attended any of his poetry boot camps?I consider Stuart a mentor. his writing shows me that you can be creative, you can have fun and you can play around.Confessions of a...
2007 has been another stellar year for everything: events, poetry, prose, music, good friends and long conversations over endless pitchers of beer at the Carleton and other locales. In my list of milestones I count having my chapbook Eleanor published by above / ground press and getting to read it a...
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rst heard him open for Emm Gryner, once again at Zaphod™s, back in 2000 when I met him through Kristy, who was my fellow classmate in Seymour Mayne™s poetry workshop at the University of Ottawa. Over the years I got to know both Trevor and Kristy, particularly as hosts of Café Nostalgica™s open poet...
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snow hit on Sunday night, Monty Reid read poems about winter and snowy owls to Dusty Owls. The luxury of time gave us the opportunity to hear Monty™s poetry culled from more than 25 years of work.One of the many things that impresses me about Monty™s poetry is that it is always spellbinding. He tell...
Here are a few fun blog entries /web bits on poetry that I™ve enjoyed this month and thought I would share with you:Mark Wallace on the value of poetry readingsSean Moreland on the poetry of H. Masud Tajthe League of Canadian Poetry™s Words Without Borders Blog, which presents a different poem from ...
up to now i™ve kept separate blogs for my literary reports (here), my poetry (eleanorincognito.blogspot.com) and my life (a live journal account which i™ve since discontinued). my rationale was always that readers interested in things literary would not necessarily want to know the details of my unc...
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the day, I wasn™t expecting a huge turn-out but there was a sizeable group and many Chapters customers stopped in to listen to both the music and the poetry. Usually after our readings at Chapters, we get a signficant increase in submissions. We also sold copies of the BQJ and gave away calendars. P...
was the best reading i have ever attended in my life. (i am not being hyperbolic or even hyperalcoholic, having been so drunk on poetry that i drank water all evening at the Atomic Rooster;)i'm too exhausted right now to blog about the reading and the conference (still one more day)...except to say ...
"Whack of Clouds" (AngelHousePress, 2008 ISBN 978-0-9783780-3-5) includes poetry by Amanda Earl, Nicholas Lea, Marcus McCann, Pearl Pirie and Roland Prevost. Limited & Numbered Edition - 54 copies, $5.00. Each copy comes with a playing card featuring one of a kind from the suits demons, hurts, cloud...
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e able to understand that a story is made up of bits of reality fused onto invention. but with poems, i've noticed this before...readers often expect poetry to be autobiographical. poems can be from completely other places. yet there are truths within the poem. in this case, the only truths in the p...
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day™s American election.October - in celebration of the release of The Bootleg Series, Vol 8, Tell Tale SignsSeptember - rant about Citizen's lack of poetry coverageAugust - Pearl Pirie and I will be reading to promote the upcoming above/ground press fifteen anniversary eventJuly - the blue sky peop...
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