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, […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Ground Rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press
The lit place to be Saturday afternoon is to check out what’s new from Chaudiere Books. Ground Rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press 2003-2013 is launching tomorrow, Dec 7th at 5pm at 370 Elgin St, Ottawa. There will be readings by Sharon Harris who waslast reading in town in 2007 [two […]
Fraticelli
Marco Fraticelli edited the Touch of a Moth anthology. His collected poems came out with Guernica in 1992. Marco is the publisher of the Hexagram series of books. He has been writing haiku for almost 40 years. For most of that time he has served on the executive of Haiku Canada. Among his haiku publications […]
Factory Series: Francheteau, de Meijer, Jacobs
Arc member Brecken Hancock was the host for the roomful assembled for the Factory Series on November 29th. The series, like above/ground press, is in its 20th year. First up was JM Francheteau . He is a rural transplant based in Ottawa. His writing has appeared in CV2, The Steel Chisel, Bywords and his blog. […]
Well Dones
Here’s a poem from Ken Howe’s A.M. Klein Award-winning book The Civic-Mindedness of Trees: Sonja on the Beach. And that, folks, is how to use repetition. This sculpture by Hurwitz is like making a poem; distort the words so the curvature of the reader can form the right shape. The launch schedule for Toronto, Montreal […]