Another fair wrapped. Next Nov 14th, back at the Tom Brown Arena. I didn’t try to talk to everyone, or man the table every minute, nor did I get to every table I intended, getting caught up in conversations, but it’s all good. I finished the first printing of Mono at 52 copies and sold […]
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MONO
Last Monday I started collecting leaves and testing designs. I have a post about the earlier stage of inking for making the chapbook covers at the Ottawa small press almanac… The chapbook is coming out on Saturday June 20th at the small press fair. (Another post is coming elsewhere Sunday afternoon about haiku. I’ll let […]
Reading Materials Incoming
Want to get stocked up on more odd and intriguing things to read? the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2026 is on this weekend–the afternoon until 5pm of Saturday, June 20, 2026 in the Main Hall of the Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue (at Lyon St. S). There was a cancellation so I will table, and hang […]
New Reviews
A few more coming in the next few weeks, but here are three I’ve done, John’s Table by Lesle Lewis (Piżama Press, 2026), and Tamil Terrains: poems, translations, reflections, edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran (Trace Press, 2025) and The Poet’s Cookbook, edited by André Narbonne
Getting Resettled
It’s summer, for sure this time. Gave my author site a cleanup for broken links and to be better organized. Read a bit. Sent a couple more submissions. Took a walk. Transcribed some. Birdsong of various chirps, and another, somewhere among cat’s meow, falsetto donkey and door hinge. Took a horsefly, a wasp, a few […]