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Elizabeth Brewster: August 26, 1922 - December 26, 2012
image kindly provided by Glen Sorestad; a poem by Brewster was also posted by Carmine Starnino on the Vehicule Press blog;
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BOOK LAUNCH: rob mclennan + Beatrice Hausner at A B Series, January 29, 2012
ROB MCLENNAN & BEATRIZ HAUSNER8:00pmThursday, January 31, 2013Ottawa Art Gallery, Firestone Gallery2 Daly Ave, OttawaFree / a hat will be passedA B Series gratefully acknowledges the support of the...
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happy birthday, kate!
My lovely and brilliant daughter Kate turns twenty-two years old today, around 4:30pm. Happy Birthday, Kate!Since she prefers not to have new photos of her on the internet, I include these, slightly...
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Profile of Teksteditions, with a few questions, at Open Book: Ontario
My profile of Bev Daurio and Richard Truhlar's Teksteditions is now up at Open Book: Ontario.
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Juliana Leslie, Green Is for World
Dream CanaryWelcome to the hard edgesthe curvier toughof geranium lengths and tubesa world figurative in primthe beginning of earthits equivalent arrowor somethingmasters of evenings in hatslike...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jamie Sharpe
Jamie Sharpe’s first book of poetry, Animal Husbandry Today, is now out from ECW Press. His writing and art has appeared in magazines throughout Canada and the U.S. He is the chief editor of the...
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Hoa Nguyen, As Long As Trees Last
My review of Hoa Nguyen's As Long As Trees Last (Wave Books) is now online at Galatea Resurrects.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Alice Petersen
Alice Petersen is a citizen of Canada and New Zealand. Her stories have been published in Takahe, Geist, Fiddlehead, Room, and in The Journey Prize Stories 19 (McClelland & Stewart, 2007)....
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Conversations in the Book Trade : interview with rob mclennan
Finn Harvor interviews me over at his Conversations in the Book Trade on writing, editing, publishing and Chaudiere Books.
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ottawater: Ottawa's annual poetry pdf journal / 9th issue now online!
Ottawa’s annual pdf poetry journaledited by rob mclennanwww.ottawater.comThe ninth issue of ottawater is now online, featuring new writing by Cameron Anstee, Steven Artelle, Gary Barwin, Jeff Blackman,...
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Andrea Rexilius, Half of What They Carried Flew Away
What they wanted most was to see things they had never seen before. When they were people they felt relief. They were on a new sexual continent willing to proclaim anything. They couldn’t sleep. It was...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Laura Walker
Laura Walker’s most recent book, Follow–Haswed (Apogee Press, 2012), was created from fragments of individual entries in the sixth volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, “Follow-Haswed”. She is also...
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Dorothea Lasky, Thunderbird
My review of Dorothea Lasky's Thunderbird (Wave Books) is now online at Galatea Resurrects.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with David Peter Clark
David Peter Clark hopes you’re doin’ okay. It’s tough out there isn’t it? He’d like to tell you it gets better but won't. He’s the author of feathereDinosaurs (A shuffaloff / Eternal Network joint),...
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Christine McNair, Conflict
My review of Christine McNair's Conflict (BookThug, 2012) is now online at Prairie Fire Review of Books. Can one write properly about their partner's work? Should one?
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Lake Ontario, Cobourg ; e:ratio 16
My poem, "Lake Ontario, Cobourg" (initially composed while Christine and I were in Cobourg for my reading at the 3rd annual Cobourg Poetry and Literary Arts Festival) is now online as part of e:ratio 16.
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Counterpart, Elizabeth Robinson
TURNThe one sharp kernelmakes its bitterseedling.Seedlingtendered at the endof the year.Some lightyearclosing,wrung outor outof seed comesthe green aperture,bitter, tender, self-pursuing.Unless I’ve...
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Ongoing notes: mid-January, 2013
[a snapshot Christine McNair took of my feet during my reading on January 15, when we featured together at Twigs + Leaves in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue QC] Apparently dANDelion has officially made noises...
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help Arc poetry magazine put poetry in classrooms!
Arc - putting poetry in classroomsArc poetry magazine is fundraising to put poetry into classrooms. Check the link here, and possibly help them out!Arc's new issue is a special issue of poetry for...
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The Shell of the Tortoise: Four Essays & an Assemblage, Don McKay
My short review of Don McKay's The Shell of the Tortoise: Four Essays & an Assemblage (Gaspereau Press, 2011) is now online at Bywords.ca
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