Purdy fundraiser reading, Nov 18 will include guests, Dennis Lee, Michael Ondaatje, Steven Heighton, Dave Bidini, Paul Vermeersch, Russell Brown and Geoff Heinricks, among others. This all takes place in the Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront. The Purdy CD from Cyclops might be of interest as well?
Michael Bryson looks critically at Raulston Saul‘s lecture on the Metis influence in Canada.
Anyone going to London UK? Finally I come across a London Readings listing.
A different look at TS Eliot‘s Little Gidding.
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Pearl,
Purdy fundraiser great idea except that focus shouldn’t be on the same ol’ same ol’ Canada Council types (Lee, Ondaatje) but on the many many readers everywhere who really appreciate the man and his works and who should be the ones to read their tribute-poems.
How about smaller, less affected venues in small cafes, people’s livingrooms, rented union halls, a collective effort etc where real people celebrate Canada’s greatest people’s poet. One such reading recently took place in Hamilton, run by James Deahl.
Let’s keep Canada Council and its lackeys as far the hell away from Purdy’s A-Frame as possible. Canadians should support their greatest poets, not the State,
Why are you telling me and opposing here? You have your own platform. Go use your own blog.
Pearl,
I’m trying to create dialogue among Canadian poet- bloggers. Period. “You share, I share. It’s all good.”
Your posts are too good/relevant to pass up. If you disagree (or think I cross a line of some sort), delete the comment. Or if you just don’t want me to post to anything, delete. Simple. I’ll get the message.
But I do want a forum for discussion/critique online or what’s a blog for? If you happen to know of bloggers with a particularly critical eye on the Canadian literary scene, please give me their links.
Look at the American poet bloggers: continuous dialogue, uncensored (to a point), open-handed and always insightful. I encounter the roadblocks only among the Canadians. Why is that?
In any event, I apologize if my “opposing here” offended.
That’s the motto of my *other* blog. 😉
Think I’m hair trigger these days with people ranting at me, or in my presence, about peers doing things unworthy of the name Poetry, and you got the overflow. Sorry.
Still, discussing ideas is one thing.
I didn’t foresee an events listing as being contentious.
Complaining about poets giving a reading just baffled me, and shoving a group of poets under a carpet as “same ol’ same ol’ Canada Council types” diminishes the uniqueness of each individual.
But upshot, yes, you’re welcome to dialogue Conrad.
Thank you and have a nice day.