The Ottawa Small Press Fair is coming Nov 28 with the traditional pre-press reading Nov 27th, this time with Michael Dennis (Ottawa), Spencer Gordon (Toronto), Michelle Desbarats (Ottawa), Garry Thomas Morse (newly in Ottawa) & Lisa Pasold (Toronto)
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Tree Workshop Tonight and Readings by Robertson and Reid
The Tree reading tonight will be at 8 pm with Lisa Robertson and Monty Reid but from 6:45-7:45 I’ll be giving a workshop on poetry. The next workshop will be in 2 weeks will be the first of a 4 session cycle with Sandra Ridley. Facilitators will rotate over the year so that the catalyst […]
Fall BQJ Launch
Margaret Malloch Zielinski (getting ready to read) with Cathy playing the part of Steve and Amanda for host of the day since both were too ill to make it. (If you want to send Get Well cards to Amanda, let me know and I can tell you where to send them.) Book angel Christine stands […]
Impacts of Line Breaks
The way I think of the way a line spacing work is matter of timing. There are all kinds of pauses of different kinds and lengths. For a bit of grammar to end, it causes a pause. For a grammatical phrase to end mid-line in a caesura gives a beat of a pause with no […]
Pointing Out…
Purdy fundraiser reading, Nov 18 will include guests, Dennis Lee, Michael Ondaatje, Steven Heighton, Dave Bidini, Paul Vermeersch, Russell Brown and Geoff Heinricks, among others. This all takes place in the Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront. The Purdy CD from Cyclops might be of interest as well? Michael Bryson looks critically at Raulston Saul‘s lecture on […]