Claudia Coutu Radmore read at Eco-Jest-Us [Link for those of you who are joining late.].
Her work is included in Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament (Mansfield Press, 2010), and the Canadian anthology Pith & Wry: Canadian Poetry (Scrivener Press, 2010), edited by Susan McMaster.
Her collection Your Hands Discover Me/ Tes mains me découvrent, in English and French, was published in May 2010 by Éditions du tanka francophone, Montreal. This publication was launched at The League of Canadian Poets in June, 2010, along with Blackbird’s Throat, a chapbook of tanka based on her trip to China, (Bondi Studios in 2009).
An except of her poem snowduckwoman, p. 34-35 of Ode to a Rubber Duck: An Explanation of the Whole World
david suzuki explains how we become
part of each other
exchange molecules constantly
that solids are not truly solid but fluid
all molecules constantly are changing so you and I little duck, are
exchanging molecules too
becoming more and more part of each other
with each bathtub session
so i promise to take you outside
we will both become part of the world
out there beyond the blue door
part of the snow
both become part of the moon
you a snowduck
me a moonwoman
both of us snowmoonduckwoman
moonskystarduckwoman
taking in our duckwoman world
Head of Gusts Magazine and of KaDo Ottawa, she is also heading up editing the Tree Reading Series Chapbooks enterprise. She is currently on the editorial boards of Bywords and ARC, and is the Director of Special Projects for Ottawa’s Tree Reading Series.
Her 12 or 20 interview is up at OpenBook. She just launched Accidentals, another hand-stitched chapbook from Apt. 9 Press which is yet another poetic styling hat from this lady of many hats.