Category archives: Poetry reading write-up

Tree Seed Workshop with Bruce Taylor was looking at rhetorical device of sound, cacophony and euphony with discussion around sample poems contrasting techniques of Edith Sitwell, Charles Olsen, Stephen Morrissey, Eric Ormsby, Phillip Larkin, Ezra Pound, George Eliot Clarke, Mary Oliver, Paul Muldoon, Louis Dudek and Derek Walcott. 18 people came to the round table […]

Plan 99 did a Versefest fundraiser with Phil Hall and Eduardo C. Corral. And there were door prize draws of a bag of books each from Anansi, Brick and Arc. Phil Hall’s most recent book of poems is called The Small Nouns Crying Faith (BookThug, 2013). Hall was the 2011 winner of the Governor General’s […]

Jill Zmud was the next of the evening’s entertainment for Oct 25th at Writers Fest. Her beautiful voice will be coming to her second album next spring. She was the music for the Bywords portion of the evening. Amanda Earl read a John Newlove poem (Then, If I Cease Desiring) and announced the honorable mentions […]

The Plan 99 BookThug launch on Oct 26th was definitely standing room only. (The best seat in the house might be someone’s shoulders, if you’re short enough.) But if the crowd being spellbound and the lineup to buy and have book signed lasting what seemed like hours, indicates anything, it was a popular event too. […]

On the poetry front, it was a packed and happy room with chairs to the back for a triple bill on the 25th. David O’Meara launched his first book in 5 years, A Pretty Sight (Coach House, 2013). Those happening across the right open mic, Tree or The Reading Series, heard sample poems from it […]

Books for sale on a Saturday night including Wave books by Hoa Nguyen and 3 of the recent titles by Mari-Lou Rowley. Dale Smith started off the night with pieces from his Slow Poetry in America. “Like many of my generation, thought races to catch up with enthusiasm; emotional awareness, in a crisis unfolding.” And […]

rob introducing readers to the somewhere over 60 gathered. With admission, people got copies of The Peter F Yacht Club issue #19 which has poems by locals including Janice Tokar an Vivian Vivassis and farthers including Joe Blades, Mark Cochrane, and derek beaulieu. In case you missed the reading, at least you can get some […]

Signs of Dusty Owl were all the way from the top of Rideau Centre’s transit bridge, arrows alternating with the owl footprint. Following the bit of chalk, you couldn’t miss it. Cathy was there to greet and host. The outdoor space is indoor/outdoor with walls around but the ruins has no roof, but has light […]