Planning to go to many events is like chasing fireflies. You may not catch them all but you might a couple.
In the MRI seeing your favourite poems again is more an act of recollection than active reading; Poetry in the brain
Damon Hunzeker said, “Just once, I’d like to see a movie with a car chase instigated entirely by questionable punctuation.” Well, not quite a car chase but Wit, a stage play, then a movie has a scene devoted to competing John Donne texts, using a comma or a semicolon.
Peter Richardson at TTQ with some poems and interview, will be reading Dec. 10, along with Mike Caesar and Anita Dolman as a “Local Light”, formerly known as “Hot Ottawa Voices”.
Anne Le Dressay will be giving a workshop soon on poetry and spirituality.
Sandra Ridley reading from The Counting House
Susan Gillis has started a poetry blog for reflecting on poetics.
Did you see this Steve McCaffrey translation?
As I mentioned before, tomorrow is Literary Landscape, 6:30pm EST at CKCU fm. I’ll be talking with Stephen Brockwell.
Brockwell is one of the readers next month at the relaunch of Chaudiere Books since it has regrouped. It has its first book coming out next month, Dec 7 at the Manx, 5pm. Sharon Harris and Marilyn Irwin will be the other featured readers.
It’s the last show for the CKCU funding drive so if you call in during the show, someone brings your name and I’ll read out thanks over the air, if that’s a perk. Otherwise donate before or after and it’ll just be between you and the station.
A week from now Barry Dempster and Don Domanski Dempster’s new poems at Canadian Poetries starts,
The day dares me to pop
a few acorns in my mouth,
shut up for a minute and crunch.
at 6:45 at SAW Gallery Bruce Taylor’s on deck to do a poetry workshop for stretching your poetry muscles to explore news angles of rhythm and rhetoric. This month he’s also in Waterloo at the Wild Writers Festival on a panel on falling in love with poetry.
If you’re local and can come, there’ll be a few other things on the book tables, new things from phafours press. More soon.