Tonight on Literary Landscape: Rory McIvor, a 3rd year student from the University of Edinburgh, will be talking about Robbie Burns. It’s Robbie Burns Day on the 25th. McIvor’s studying History and Politics at Carleton as part of the International Exchange Programme. Originally from Northern Ireland, McIvor has developed an understanding and appreciation of Scottish […]
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Happy 2014
Happy New Year from the A B Series “Ottawa’s Nexus for Global Poetry, Music & Innovative Arts” 2013 was long. I’d forgotten almost a year ago, I read there too. Organizer Max Middle has a knack and an eye for finding people from around the world who have decades of experience in their field. Performers […]
LitLand: All Rhodes Lead to Shane?
Tonight on Literary Landscape, 6:30 EST, you can listen live, on a radio at 93.1, or to the podcast after at to an interview with Shane Rhodes. Here’s some supplemental reading: Michael Dennis reads X and there’s some video links there. Reading Antipoetry of Nicanor Parra CanLit Guide with his Visual Poetry Shane Rhodes – […]
95 Books for 2013: Part 17: Canadian & US Contemporary Poetry
Wrapping up the year of reading, finishing up books from the almost done shelf. I briefly thought of scanning in each cover but then, how about this instead? There’s not much linking this set thematically. Some books overlap in style or obsessions but as a group it’s more time and place than subjects. 163 total. […]
95 Books for 2013, Part 16 (to 153): 1500s, 1800s, Contemporary, Permanent, Slavery, Conspiracy, Words and Birds
I’ve let so much time lapse, it’s a bit of scramble to reconstruct the order of what I read. Astrophel and Stella by Philip Sidney (1580s), from sonnet 34 Come, let me write. “And to what end?” To ease A burthen’d heart. “How can words ease, which are The glasses of thy daily vexing care?” […]