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Reviewers on Reviewing: mclennan, Webb-Campbell, Marchand, Zomparelli + Del...
At Erin Wunker's request, I recently wrote a short blurb on why reviewing matters for the CWILA site, posted this week alongside similar pieces by Shannon Webb-Campbell, Philip Marchand, Jonathan Ball...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Matt Cahill
Matt Cahill is a Toronto writer and psychotherapist. His debut novel, The Society of Experience, was released in October 2015 with Buckrider Books, an imprint of Wolsak & Wynn, and was listed on...
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queen mob's teahouse : seeking interview pitches,
I recently accepted the position of 'interviews editor' for Queen Mob's Teahouse, a literary site located in England, and am currently seeking pitches for interviews with writers, whether of poetry,...
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Sara Nicholson, The Living Method
THE END OF TELEVISIONCovet not the sun its honorariumnor authorize the stars their grants to write.The sojourners spotted a forestadrift with language, but couldn’t make sense of it.The woods at odds...
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Judith Fitzgerald, Impeccable Regrets
IMPECCABLE REGRETO, give us this day our daily dearth:My Friend, My Darling of CatastropheEnticing the moon, efficiently learning,Slowly turning away from the gruesomeSpectacle, slyly fading, failing...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lucas Crawford
Lucas Crawfordis from rural Nova Scotia and is based in Vancouver. Crawford's poetry has been published widely, including in The Literary Review of Canada, The Antigonish Review, Room, PRISM...
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Army photos from the Swain/Page archive
I've been curious about these photos I discovered in my great-grandfather's archive a few years back. Set in a loose sequence, they remain unmarked and unremarked.Archive, of course, is a very loose...
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Anne Cecelia Holmes, The Jitters
ODENone of this concerns you butsometimes it’s better to pretend closenessthan live in fear of rejection. Things I know:car sickness, the Mall of America, all-nightmurder dreams. Childhood was a...
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rob mclennan's poetry workshops: January-March, in our wee house,
After a successful fall session, I return once again to offering poetry workshops. Originally held at Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeebar, this session will be held at our wee house on Alta Vista...
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Fence magazine #30 (Winter/Spring 2015)
ViennaYou keep your citiesin the water. In the woodstand islands and clearings.You are runningwith the jewel box by water.Your dreamsprovide the key. Your oceanawaits. It waters your dreams.Enter the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Farzana Doctor
Farzana Doctor is a Toronto-based author of three novels: Stealing Nasreen, Six Metres of Pavement (which won a Lambda Literary Award in and was short-listed for the Toronto Book Award) and the...
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Chaudiere Books : a profile, and our big fall poetry launch!
By now, you've seen our recent company profile over at All Lit Up (in which a story or two is slightly told), and know about our big fall poetry launch at the end of the month (Andy Weaver, Jennifer...
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part one,
[Claire Farley of Canthius Literary Journal] Can you believe our semi-annual fair is now twenty-one years old? Old enough to be tried as an adult; old enough to know better.See my reports on the spring...
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Natalie Eilbert, Swan Feast
CONVERSATION WITH THE STONE WIFENothing interests me anymore. A garden is too enthusiasticto be alive for its own sake. The highway, now that is something.I want to be paved into colorless stone....
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Sara Nicholson
Sara Nicholson is the author of The Living Method (The Song Cave, 2014). She lives in Arkansas.1 - How did your first book change your life? How does your most recent work compare to your previous?...
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Happy (second) Birthday, Rose!
Our wee girl turns two today! (See her first birthday here)Where does the time go? And you know we have the new (final) one due in April, yes? We are celebrating with a small gathering of her peers,...
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Ongoing notes: Meet the Presses (part one,
Christine and I were in Toronto recently, for the sake of the annual Meet the Pressesevent on November 14th, tabling with a mound of above/ground pressitems, and our three new fall poetry titles...
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Profile of Christian McPherson, with a few questions, at Open Book: Ontario
My profile of Ottawa writer Christian McPherson, with a few questions, is now online at Open Book: Ontario.
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Julie Morrissy
Julie Morrissy has lived in Montréal, Toronto, Minnesota, San Francisco and Dublin. In 2015 she was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, and shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry...
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part two,
[Arc Poetry Magazine, with Managing Editor Monty Reid] See part one here. Is there more? Possibly. Most likely.Ottawa ON: It has been interesting to see Amanda Earl expanding her publishing over the...
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