I uploaded 3 dozen pictures and put captions on a public FB album of the Ottawa small press fair. (Awkward that I can’t put captions with iPhoto and that cover Flickr and FB to not duplicate labour with cut and paste.) I got only a few from reading of the night before and they’re mostly […]
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Dempster's Blue Wherever
Barry Dempster read at Plan 99 in Ottawa June 12th from each of his 3 latest collections, Blue Wherever (Signature Editions, 2010), Ivan’s Birches (Pedlar Press 2009) and Love Outlandish (Brick Books, 2009). I meant to get back to mention more of this reading earlier. His reading was a lovely mix of tones. Some patter […]
Chapbook(,) Goodness(!)
My new chapbook. You can’t tell in the picture, but the cover of “over my dead corpus” is shiny metallic silver. (Yay for book bling!) Pearl Pirie’s “over my dead corpus” is a feast of sounds, playful and thoughtful poems culled from the corpus of the world. The main source corpus is over 500 pages […]
Moritz in Ottawa
A.F. Moritz was the feature at Tree on Tuesday. He took an unconventional tack reading not only from his work but some of his favorite pieces by writers who influenced him. He also read from The Sentinel (Anansi, 2009) [3 audio poem samples at that link]. A room of about 40 people trouped over on […]
The Threat to the Consuming Market
Being bombarded with inept prose, shoddy ideas, incoherent grammar, boring plots and insubstantial characters — not to mention ton after metric ton of clichés — for hours on end induces a state of existential despair that’s almost impossible to communicate to anyone who hasn’t been there themselves: Call it ______ TV sitcoms? (Ok, maybe cheap […]