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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Mary Austin Speaker
Mary Austin Speaker is the author of the chapbooks The Bridge (Push Press 2011); 20 Love Poems for 10 Months (Ugly Duckling Presse 2012); a play, I Am You This Morning You Are Me Tonight, written in...
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Weyman Chan, Chinese Blue
My short review of Calgary poet Weyman Chan's fourth poetry collection, Chinese Blue (Talonbooks, 2012) is now online at Arc Poetry Magazine.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Beatriz Hausner
Beatriz Hausner’s poetry books include: The Wardrobe Mistress (2003), Sew Him Up (2010), Enter the Raccoon (2012), La costurera y el muñeco viviente / The Seamstress and the Living Doll (Spanish...
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a new chapbook: The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (Sacrifice Press)
American publisher Sacrifice Press was good enough to produce a chapbook of my short, short stories, The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (from a larger manuscript of the same title; see a number of...
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Born Weird, Andrew Kaufman
The Weirds acquired their surname through a series of events that some would call coincidence and others would call fate. Sterling D. Wyird, in the process of emigrating from England to...
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Cutting Room, Sarah Pinder
My review of Sarah Pinder's Cutting Room (Coach House, 2012) is now online at Prairie Fire Review of Books.
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2012: list, lists and then some lists: a list,
Way over there in Switzerland, Susana Gardner was good enough to post my second annual "'best of' 2012 Canadian poetry books" over at the dusie blog, and, closer to home, Eric Hill was good enough to...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kevin Varrone
Kevin Varrone is the author of g-point almanac: id est (9/22-12/21) (Instance Press), g-point Almanac (7/21-9/21) (Ixnay Press) and g-point almanac: passyunk lost (ugly duckling presse) His poems have...
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Anselm Hollo: April 12, 1934 – January 29, 2013
Sad news from the United States: Finnish poet Anselm Hollo died yesterday morning.Some Canadian readers might recall that the much-published Hollo, who lived in the United States from 1967 onwards,...
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The World is Moving Around Me, Dany Laferrière
Musical ChairsPeople move through the streets, hoping to come across a family member, a friend, a neighbor, or even an acquaintance: someone to legitimize our claim to be among the living. We’re...
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new from above/ground press: new titles by Abel, Hancock, Paige + Cain,
ScientiaJordan Abel$4See link here for more informationThe Art of PlumbingBrecken Hancock$4See link here for more informationOther Brief DiscoursesAbby Paige$4See link here for more...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jason Dickson
Jason Dickson is an antiquarian bookseller and writer who lives and works in London, Ontario. He is the author of three titles, Clearance, The Hunt, and Glenn Piano by Gladys Priddis, all published by...
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The Benjamin Sonnets, Clint Burnham
XILangston Kurtzgal leg’s lagtime gent likkerSome are risingun best cadet, bug chokingfur sure eh ex-URL-shoo!’ll gingham foe nunKennedy herCowabunghole antsieErin inert knock LangeAndy’s Warhol...
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Support the VERSeFest '13 : Indiegogo campaign!
VERSeFest ’13, Ottawa’s annual international poetry festival, starts on 12 March. We need your help to make the festival even better than last year!VERSeFest is Ottawa’s annual international poetry...
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marybones, Pattie McCarthy
the passive banter of saintsrock & hum an Ave over sleeping Asherreconsider the similarity of shape of posturesin pietàs & maria lactans...
View ArticleGrain magazine 40.2: short grain contest issue,
Ahe played injun in god’s countrywhere boys proved themselves cleandumb beasts who could cut fireout of the whitest sandhe played english across the trailwhere girls turned plum wildgarlic and strained...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Missy Marston
As explained in her National Post Afterword columns, Missy Marstonloves Margaret Atwood, aliens and Donald Sutherland. Her first novel, The Love Monster, is an ode to all three. She has been called “an...
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four prose poems : Talking Writing,
I have four new prose poems, from "Notlake Utanikki," now online at Talking Writing. The poems are included as part of a larger section on prose poems.
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We Have With Us Your Sky, Melanie Hubbard
LAKE GALILEEThey’re sailing little wooden boatsalong the shore. Look! The master dida back flip from the bow. If you sawa monkey go over a cliff,would you follow? Well, you would—but I mean, a normal...
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Q + A with rob mclennan: twenty years of above/ground press, on the Broken...
Assistant editor Alison Lang was good enough to interview me on twenty years of above/ground press over at the Broken Pencil blog. Thanks, Alison!There's a ton of activity happening over at the press,...
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