The traditional night before the fair poetry reading at the Carleton Tavern is June 14th, doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm. This time the Factory Reading Series has readings/launches by: Steven Artelle (Ottawa), Liz Worth (Toronto), Kanina Dawson (Ottawa), Bardia Sinaee (Toronto) and Michael e. Casteels (Kingston). What a wonderful lineup. I wish I were in the […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Assembling an If
Some lovely Tibetan recycled hemp paper, accordion folded into sections, edges wet and torn. Long armed stapler putting to good use again. Drat, if you can read that and have your copy already, please correct the wabi sabi in the 4th line to then, not when. *sigh*. But love how the pockets turned out. (Reading […]
AB Series: Quartermain and Hall
Max Middle introducing the Sunday installment of quite arguably the best reading series in town with poems that are challenging and off-the-centre but on target for refined craft. This edition was at the Raw Sugar Café, just under the Chinatown arch. Meredith Quartermain read from a few of her books. Her books include Vancouver Walking, […]
fw: Purdyfest 7: LivesayFest
PurdyFest #7: “LivesayFest” Purdy Country LitFests (PurdyFests) held in Hastings County are Canada’s first and longest running People’s Poetry festivals. Several other communities across Canada have followed our example and our now holding their own annual events. On this summer’s August long weekend we’ll be celebrating fest #7. This year we’ll be honouring the legacy […]
95 Books, Part 7
Going through the stacks of new books arrived, most poems are working images, some the angle of ideas. Most have an underlying sadness to them. Hard to separate the interpretation from the projection. Is that what is resonating or being imposed? The Small Nouns Crying Faith by Phil Hall (BookThug 2013), p69 gives a sample […]