The animation for the lyrics of Jonathan Coulton’s Shop Vac song is astonishingly good. What a marvel to make that. And second, if you don’t know about the Advent Book Blog which gives a mini review of a book by someone who had read it and loved it, do go. It’s a before Christmas special. […]
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A Peak at Ms. Beck
at the Manx, Dec 4 performing from Sandra Beck. The book in some ways was born at the Manx as he met there 5 years ago Stuart Ross who blurbed the back of the book and Melanie Little who would eventually be the editor for the manuscript. A nice circle. Recommended here and in a […]
Experiment-o
The annual exploration of visual art, edge-pushing expression around the “art of risk”, experiment-o issue 3, is now online. “experiment-o will consider interviews, reviews, visual art, visual poetry, concrete poetry, poetry, prose, manifestos, maps, rants, blog entries, translations and other digital miscellany.” Art, poetry, visual poetry and short fiction by: Henry Avignon, Michael Basinski, derek […]
Saskatchewan Book Awards
The corpus callosum between Western Canada and Central Canada seems pretty active. Saskachewan Book Awards announced their final list. Of the 14 spots, Ottawa Writers Festival has the Sage Hill person, Sandra Birdsell this year. Her Waiting for Joe (Random House Canada) won for fiction. Regina Book Award went to Dianne Warren for her multi-voiced […]
A Few Snippets of this Week In Ottawa Books
Wish I could get to more but one does what one can. Claudia Coutu Radmore launches a moment or two/ without remembering (Two Cultures Press, 2010) at Mother Tongue Books (1067 Bank St. Ottawa) Nov 25, 2010. Mother Tongue shares its space with a few workshop groups where writers can hone their manuscripts. The collection […]