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The 2010 Origami Crane Contest, best poem at Tree‘s open mic, as chosen by this year’s judge Monty Reid and presented by Rod Pederson. It is the poem folded into a crane, in this case on bamboo paper and attached to the award. Monty Reid’s short list includes: Mary Lee Bragg, for “Take a Picture, […]

Up on the desk as the next journeys are these poetry titles: The Chimney Stone: Ghazals by Rob Winger (Nightwood Editions, 2010) Names Above Houses by Oliver de la Paz (Southern Illinois University Press, 2001) Reticent Bodies by Moez Surani (Wolsak and Wynn, 2009) Sonnets by Camille Martin (Shearsman Books, 2010) The Long Landscape by […]

Amanda Earl lists her Favorite Books read in 2010 which are: Sandra Beck by John Lavery (House of Anansi, 2010), The Little Seamstress by Phil Hall (Pedlar Press, 2010), been shed bore by Pearl Pirie (Chaudiere Books, 2010), Jailhouse: 99 Canadian Sonnets, edited by Zachariah Wells (Biblioasis, 2008), Fear of Fighting by Stacey May Fowles […]

The following five poets are on the Origami Crane shortlist, as selected by Monty Reid: Mary Lee Bragg Terry Ann Carter Grant Savage Dee Hobsbawn-Smith Claudia Coutu Radmore Come out to Tree Tuesday, December 14 · 8 pm to hear who won. It’s a Christmas Tree, all open mic. Come early at 6:45 and catch […]

The Nov/Dec issue of Unbrella: Covering the Arts in Quinte gave updates on the Purdy A-Frame. Fundraising has brought in over $100,000. The A-frame Trust is moving into cooperation with Hastings Prince Edward Land Trust (HPELT), which has a mandate of protecting areas “important to our communities for their ecological and cultural values.” The target […]