Cameron Anstee is interviewed at Ottawalife ““I can support writers that haven’t published very much yet, or I can chase down people that haven’t published in years. I’ve worked with heroes of mine; I’ve helped see first chapbooks into print. I couldn’t ask for a more rewarding experience.”
The tribute to Paul Dutton is up at PENN sound.
A kickstarter for paintings of poets
Kate Braid on the previous Literary Landscape.
The Georgia Strait asks Daphne Marlatt which book changed your life. Her answer. It’s an interesting series with previous answers from George Bowering and Michael V Smith.
The new issue at The Puritan is up.
A new face at the table-side of the ottawa small press fair was Brandon Crilly who reflected on the experience of selling words “Trying to sell your own stuff at a table is a totally different demon compared to drafting query letters or pitching to publishers, which is the cornerstone of the mainstream spec fic world. I realized very quickly that, if I just let me people take a look at my books and didn’t say anything, odds were they would put the book down and move on.”
If you’re on twitter, retweet this Penguin tweet to win Penguin classics.
Poetry Base is ways to divvy up aspects of form poetry, by device, metrical requirement, pivot, subject, etc.
An interview at Queen’s Mob with Gil McElroy.”Jacques Monod, his book Chance & Necessity, and found a hugely powerful scientific basis for the truly fecund possibilities of chance, of randomness. Monod’s argument was that “chance alone is at the source of every innovation, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of evolution …” (wow, I still get goosebumps reading that).”
CWILA interviews Jonathan Ball “What I want to see in a review is a surprising comprehension. Where not only do I get a sense of what’s important in this book, or even how it fails, but I get a sense of what’s important in literature, or how it fails.”
Thoughts on gender, voice and power.
If you’re local, send a poem to the poem-off for Sawdust by Dec 2nd for a reading spot with me in December. Details here.
At Rusty Toque Tanis MacDonald gave a lively reading of the pet radish, shrunken.
More quotes of reviews of the radish are here.
Nod has an open call on.
PoemBot is an online cento-maker. You enter a line and choose how many lines of response and it’ll kick you back a poem. Great fun.