You may have already seen that Patrick White has died. He launched his last poetry collection two weeks before he died. He was the last Poet Laureate of Ottawa. When I was to see mom last she said she found a paper I left behind. A 1987 Anthos: White organized Anthos, the magazine (“The magazine […]
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Poetry Link Roundup
Dionne Brand on the bus. In Poetry in Transit. Did you see the photos from the BookThug 10th aniversary party? Kolewe’s photos John Ashbery in interview at the Paris Review said, “One can accept a Picasso woman with two noses, but an equivalent attempt in poetry baffles the same audience.” You saw that Frances Boyle […]
News Roundups
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 […]
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 […]
Chaps, chapbooks and Pre-Book
8 ways to display your haiku. If you don’t want to work it out yourself there’s a lot of chapbook templates, courtesy of My Bookez Congratulations to Sandra Alland & Gil McElroy who are this year’s co-winners of the bpNichol Chapbook Award, last night at Meet The Presses New at Canadian Poetries a conversation around […]