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Each chapbook is its own path to read, or write, or publish. There are a lot of stages to publishing a chapbook. Most, if not all, are invisible from the outside. This fall I’ve been making Crime & Ornament by Tamsyn Farr, her debut chapbook. Most of the calendar-time was finding/lucking into writing that resonates. Then […]

Ottawa small press fairThis Saturday Nov 22, 12-5pm at Paul Brown Arena, near downtown, a book fair. Launching title of Tamysn Farr’s first chapbook Crime & Ornament at the phafours table. Salon the of RefusedSalon the of Refused at the Bytown Museum, 1 Canal Lane, Ottawa on December 15, 7pm-9pm, with locals Poetea orgsnizer Gillie Griffin, and Pearl […]

I genrally am consuming 20-30 books in parallel. In this snapshot I present current top of pile reads, with a menu pairing of recent meals. Where and When Am I? In the 2300s, mostly a city on Mercury, on Saturn and Jupiter’s moons and transit between in: 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit, 2012) Menu: […]

I have apparently been doing this pesbo blog for 20 years now. Some have tried to give it cachet and called in the Pesbo Journal. Take prestige if you need it. And I have been doing book reviews in various places for 15 years. Oddly the League of Canadian poets seems to have deleted their […]