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Author Archives: Pearl
fw: Layton Reloaded Conference
Registration is now open for “Whatever Else”: An Irving Layton Symposium, May 3-5, 2013. You are cordially invited to attend “Whatever Else”: An Irving Layton Symposium, the 41st instalment of the annual Canadian Literature Symposium hosted by the Department of English at the University of Ottawa. This will be 3-day gathering featuring paper presentations by […]
Dedication
Book dedications don’t go as far as they used to. See, p. 101 of Owen Gingerich’s The Book Nobody Read, Peter Apian’s Astronomican Caesareum was truly astronomy for an emperor’s eyes. Dedicated to Charles V of Spain, it won for its author, an astronomy professor at the university in Ingolstadt, the right to appoint poets […]
VERSeFest 2013 Events
It’s almost all announced. VERSeFest is rolling out its poets, more schedule of the second half, including a grand finale Sunday is now online. There’s also a 6 minute short of VERSeFest in video which captures some clips of participants on both sides of the stage from 2012.
After Stonewall
After Stonewall, 370 Bank St near Gilmour, is back in business, rebooting as a bookstore plus pottery, visual art, crafty glassware, etc. By volume it’s 3/4 not-books but books display tighter than votives. The poetry section is one shelf, but if you haven’t got Shane Rhodes’ Err, Marcus McCann’s The Hard Return, or Phyllis Webb’s […]