Sound Poetry Tonight

Platform Gallery, 51 A Young Street (around the corner from g101) will have abstract art by Dan Sharp, Ted Willis and Georgia Mathewson. During the evening there will be a performance of The Quatuor-Gualuor a sound poetry group around 8pm tonight, April 30th. jw curry, Georgia Mathewson, Rachel Lindsey and Brian Pirie. For She Was […]

Authors for Indies Day

Authors for Indies Day is coming Saturday May 2. There are now 113 bookstores hosting 547 authors across Canada. Local stores, everywhere. Fiction writers, poets, non-fiction authors… Here’s theĀ Ontario’s list. If you’re by Almonte, try Mill Street Books, 52 Mill Street. It’s got a beautifully curated set of books so I always get a treasure […]

Chocolating Poems

Tonight the launch of the chocolate poems as part of National Poetry Month with the food theme. Thanks to poets.ca and the Canada Council for the Arts for funding as part of National Poetry Month. Wed, April 8, 2015, 7:30pm Launching the Chocolate chapbook, Ottawa At A Thing for Chocolate, 1262 Wellington Ave W. Readings […]

Marvin Orbach

Thanks to Chris Faiers word has been raised that Marvin Orbach has passed on. What a lovely man he was. I only had the briefest correspondences with him over the last couple years. It’s rare for a gentle spirit to come through email. He struck me as such a kind and straight-up sort of man. […]