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On Writing : an occasional series
We're more than two years and nearly seventy posted essays into the occasional series of "On Writing" essays I've been curating over at the ottawa poetry newsletter blog. I've included an updated list,...
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A short interview with Andy Weaver
My short interview with Toronto poet Andy Weaver on his forthcoming third poetry collection, this (Chaudiere Books, 2015), is now online at Queen Mob's Teahouse.
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Allison Green, The Ghosts Who Travel With Me: A Literary Pilgrimage Through...
Brautigan’s books offered more than a bohemian world, where pretty women made their poet lovers paintings and wore nothing under their pretty dresses. His books gave me words and sentences, rhythms, a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lesley Battler
Lesley Battler was born in Barrie, Ontario. Her work has been published in a wide range of journals including, Arc, filling Station, Prism International, West Coast Line. Her debut book of poetry,...
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Jane Jordan poetry book give-away: a report,
Last Friday night we had a small gathering of poets in our wee house for the sake of a party/book give-away. Over the past few weeks, we'd been handed nine bins of material--books, literary journals,...
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Jamie Sharpe, Cut-Up Apologetic
My short review of Jamie Sharpe's Cut-Up Apologetic (ECW Press, 2015) is now online at Arc Poetry Magazine.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Anne Boyer
Anne Boyer's most recent book is Garments Against Women.1 - How did your first book change your life?It ruined it. 2 - How did you come to poetry first, as opposed to, say, fiction or non-fiction?I...
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two collaborative poems (w/ Christine McNair,
Two more poems from the untitled collaboration-in-progress I've been working on with Christine McNair are now online at Berfrois.
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new from above/ground press: Earl, Thomas + Best,
A BOOK OF SAINTSAmanda Earl$4See link here for more informationSix Swedish PoetsHugh Thomas$4See link here for more informationNow You Have Many Legs To Stand OnAshley-Elizabeth Best$4See link here for...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kate Rogers
Kate Rogers’ new poetry collection, Foreign Skin, debuted in Toronto with Aeolus House Press in July 2015 and in Hong Kong in October this year. She lectures in Literature and Media Studies at the...
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Poets Online Talking About Coffee : rob mclennan,
I was interviewed recently over at Queen Mob's Teahouse in their "Poets Online Talking About Coffee" series, in which I discuss many things, including coffee.
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Colin Browne, The Hatch: poems and conversations
the lava fieldor withoutin the lava fiexldsicxk of himselfon the nigxht boatthis smallpox takesthe piss out of proxfitswisdom teeth, then cervixthen the armisxticewhen I lisxten it’swe’re safer, not...
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Ouroboros (1982-1989): bibliography, and an interview
this interview was conducted over email from April to August 2015 as part of a project to document Ottawa literary publishing. see my bibiliography-in-progress of Ottawa literary publications, past and...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Buck Downs
A native of Jones County, Miss., Buck Downs lives and works in Washington DC. His latest book is TACHYCARDIA: Poems 2010-12, out now from Edge.1 - How did your first book change your life? How does...
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Roy Kiyooka, a web folio : The Capilano Review
My essay on Roy Kiyooka's Pacific Windows has been reprinted as part of a spring 2015 web folio on Kiyooka over at The Capilano Review, alongside a piece by Pierre Coupey, all produced as companion to...
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above/ground press bundles! 5 chapbooks for $18
Until October 1st, 2015, above/ground press is offering five titles of your choice (while supplies last) for eighteen dollars (plus postage). What a deal!You can scroll through the backlist here (check...
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Anne Boyer, Garments Against Women
It was in September I totally fucked with chronology. I thought memoirs were written by property owners. I was about to fall in love with younger men. When I went back to work at my former employer,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Elaine Woo
Elaine Woo is the author of Cycling with the Dragon, published by Nightwood Editions in Fall 2014. She is a contributor to Shy: An Anthology, which won a silver medal IPPY (Independent Book Publishers)...
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The Death of The Silver Snail (Ottawa) Comics = Comet Comics!
In case you haven't heard, Ottawa's Silver Snail Comics is closing any day now (apparently the parent store in Toronto decided they couldn't carry both), which is terrible to those of us who have been...
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Colin Smith, Multiple Bippies
A national party that slags the native people as stupid puns on welfare, i.e. “they don’t want to work and they don’t want us to work either.”But neoconservative leaders make extremists...
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