Twice this week there are events at Raw Sugar (on Somerset beneath the Chinatown arch).
Tonight at 7:30,…
Mansfield Press invites you — yes, you! — to the launch of its fall titles:
Poetry:
– Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books, by Stephen Brockwell
– What The World Said, by Jason Camlot
– Monkey Soap, by Glen Downie
– Our Days in Vaudeville, by Stuart Ross & 29 collaborators
Fiction:
– Dear Leaves, I Miss You All, by Sara Heinonen
There will be readings, books for sale, the usually snappy repartee, warm camaraderie, and the announcement of the spring 2014 list.
Special local guest poets are Cameron Anstee, Michael Dennis and Sandra Ridley, reading from their collaborations with Stuart Ross!
Hosted by Mansfield publisher/editor Denis De Klerck and editor Stuart Ross
It’s always so great to come back to Ottawa!
Cash bar and wonderful snacks and meals and coziness at Raw Sugar!
And once you know where it is, come back Saturday at 8pm,
A B Series’ 3rd Annual Xmas Party with Bill Bissett!
Poetry by bissett and Adeena Karasick!
Music by Glenn Nuotio & Melody McKiver.
Raffle: Prizes
Host Max Middle says, “Thrilled about the prizes we have to give away this year! Some of them are books from Coach House, Talon and BookThug, gift certificates for the Manx and Shanghai, double passes to the Bytowne and a beautiful gift basket from the Ottawa Art Gallery.”
$11 advance tickets available on Eventbrite. Admission is $16 at the door
Entry comes with a ticket to the evening’s prize draw. You can buy a raft of raffle tickets if you want.
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Raw Sugar Café
692 Somerset West
Ottawa, Ont.
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Bill Bissett’s charged readings, which never fail to amaze his audiences, incorporate chanting, sound poetry and singing, the verve of which is matched only by his prolific writing career: over 70 books of bissett’s poetry have been published. An energetic “man-child mystic,” bill bissett is living proof of William Blake’s adage “the spirit of sweet delight can never be defiled.”
Combining chamber music and folk, Glenn Nuotio delivers unnervingly complex pop. As Ottawa Xtra! notes, “he channels it through an indie musician’s paper heart and the results are invariably stirring.”
Adeena Karasick is a poet, cultural theorist, media artist and the critically acclaimed author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory, and Professor of Pop Culture and Media Theory at Fordham University in New York. Writing at the intersection of Conceptualism and neo-Fluxus performatics, her urban, Jewish feminist mashups have been described as “electricity in language” (Nicole Brossard).
More info: A B Series.org