You may have seen the post up about Eco-Jest-Us at Local Tourist. For the next few days I’m going to post a poem a day sample from the Eco-Jest-Us readers. I’ll start out with Alastair Larwill. He may be packing chapbooks should you happens across him, such as at the next Writers Fest. He will […]
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Mike Buckthought: Une Poésie Concrète
A writer, musician and environmental activist, he lives steps away from Ottawa City Hall and Parliament Hill, and often writes about the nefarious deeds of his neighbours. He was shortlisted for the 2008 Arc Poem of the Year Award. His poetry has recently appeared in Rogue Stimulus. Below is a reprint from the chapbook The […]
Look at the Earth
Interesting links: Solo for Ear-Trumpet by Dame Edith Sitwell about whether that is Armageddon or boy scouts again, words placed in nature, an exhibit of photos curated by Geof Huth, a sneak peak into edits of Monty Reid’s poem on parasites and John B Lee’s poem on a little girl who wants a pupa. All […]
Post-Modern Long, Fs, Geist and Arc
11 minute video of the recent history of the documentary poem, a foray into robert kroetsch’s post-modern long poem, “seed catalogue. If you haven’t seen it when it went up a couple days ago, it’s a well-spoken run. “a story becomes its own narrative in the act of telling.” Also worth a look is Seven […]
Associative Leaps
The last Pre-Tree workshop on April 12 had Ian Keteku facilitating. The technique he focused on was brainstorming for metaphor. For example, start with a concrete word and do waves of associations to back out from it to go towards the underlying meaning, then cut the middle bits. Instead of the expected, stock simple comparison […]