When? Saturday, November 23, 2013, 11:00am until 4:00pm
Where? Main Branch, Ottawa Public Library (120 Metcalfe)
What? Come and purchase books from local authors in the National Capital Region who write in English, French and Spanish. Books will include fiction, non-fiction, YA novels, poetry, mystery, children’s books and comics.
Who? The following authors will be present to sign copies of their books:
Peggy Blair (mystery)
Mike Martin (mystery)
Rita Donovan (fiction)
Deborah Jackson (science fiction)
Victoria Dunn (fiction & fantasy)
Caroline Frechette (fiction/comics – E & F)
Mirror Comics (comics)
Camila Reimers (fiction – E & S)
Gabriela Etcheverry (fiction – E, S & F)
Jorge Etcheverry (fiction/poetry – E & S)
Christian McPherson (fiction/poetry)
Chris Jennings (poetry)
Shane Rhodes (poetry)
Katina Michelis (non-fiction, pregnancy and parenting)
Tudor Robins (YA novels)
Jeff Ross (YA novels)
Kate Jaimet (YA novels/middle-grade books)
Pierre-Luc Bélanger (YA novels – F)
Rachel Eugster (children’s books)
Christiane D’Aoust (children’s books – E & F)
Alberte Villeneuve-Sinclair (novels/children’s books – E & F)
All books in English unless noted otherwise: E=English F=French S=Spanish
Special thanks to the Ottawa Public Library, Apt 613, and Ottawa International Writers Festival for co-sponsoring.
Participating bookstores are Kaleidoscope Kids (1018 Bank), Perfect Books (258 Elgin) and Octopus Books (116 Third Ave. and 251 Bank).
Books to be Won
CKCU Funding Drive (donate online, mail a cheque, drop by the office at 5th Floor of Carleton University’s Unicentre,
CKCU FM
Room 517 University Centre
1125 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa, Ontario CANADA K1S 5B6
Or call in and there’s a bank of volunteers taking calls until the 10th at 613) 520-2898.
There are general prizes to won from the station, like a night at the Black Sheep Inn, at the Lord Elgin, or the National Arts Centre.
We could use $20 from about a dozen of you for Literary Landscape’s target. By draw, some plum book prizes for book-living donors…
Blood and Water anthology from Ottawa’s Bundoran Press, which won the Aurora (people’s choice award for Spec Fiction), a well as new releases Right to Know and I’ll Meet You Yesterday.
For the Living and the Dead by Tomas Transtromer from Buschek books, I Simply Began from Apt 9.
Decalogue 2 from Chaudiere. I See my Love More Clearly from a Distance from Brick.
Sweet and Sour Nothings by William Hopkins (Apt 9)
Movement in Jars by Meghan Jackson (Chaudiere)
The Lizard and Other Stories by Michael Bryson (Chaudiere)
3 issue of Postscripts to Darkness, a horror lit magazine that started in Ottawa.
Thanks for listening Thursday nights, 6:30-7:00pm on 93.1
Currently Reading
Not an instalment of 95 books because I’m not done one of them. Buried past these are more I haven’t opened or have but are temporarily waysided.
After Desire by George Stanley (2013, New Star Book)
The Ambassadors by Henry James (Kindle)
Astrophel and Stella by Philip Sidney (Online)
Bite Down Little Whisper by Don Domanki (2013, Brick)
Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings by Pema Chodron (2003, Shambala)
Complete Surprising Fragments of Improbable Books by Stephen Brockwell (2013, Mansfield)
A Crystal through which Love Passes: Glosas for P.K. Page ed by Jesse Patrick Ferguson (2013, Buschek)
The Counting House by Sandra Ridley (2013, BookThug)
Drifting by Marco Fraticelli (2013, Catkin Press)
Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski (2007, Wilfred Laurier U Press)
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst (2004, Hartley & Marks)
The First Four Notes: Beethoven’s Fifth and the Human Imagination by Matthew Guerrieri (2012)
How to Love a Lonely Man by Rhonda Douglas (2013, Apt. 9)
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostovesky (Kindle)
Laws of Rest by David E Goldstein (2013, BookThug)
Light Light by Julie Jooston (2013, BookThug)
Magic Words: A Dictionary by Craig Conley
The Prophet’s Camel Bell by Margaret Laurence (1963)
Radiant Life Forms by Diana Brebner (1990, Netherlandic Press)
The Raw Pearl by Pearl Bailey (1969)
Selected Poems by Louis MacNeice ed. by WH Auden (Faber and Faber, 1964)
Suddenly, A Knock on the Door by Etgar Keret (2010, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Suicide Psalms by Mari-Lou Rowley (2008, Anvil)
Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace by Niels Lyngsø (2004, BookThug)
Poetry in Person: Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America’s Poets ed by Alexander Neubauer (2010, Knoff)
Winter Music by Mary Lee Bragg (2013, Tree Press)
A Writer’s Life: The Margaret Laurence Lectures, ed by Writers’ Trust (2011, M&S)
No wonder I don’t make much headway; I’m a human centipede with 2 legs for a hundred spines.
VerseFest
VerseFest isn’t until spring. Within the festival there’ll be a thanks to significant local or formerly local community-makers and poetry-makers. 2014 VERSeOttawa Hall of Honour Inductees have been announced. More info at that link but I’ll say this much. Pssst: this time it’s Amanda Earl and Danielle K.L. Gregoire.
The point and there are a few
What’s Chris Lott’s Favorite Punctuation?
Story on Heather McHugh
Good quote from writer’s fest panel:
"I thought I had pretty good titles up until this book…[but] nothing sells like murder" @CharlotteJGray explains #truecrime @Writersfest
— Ottawa Writers Fest (@Writersfest) October 29, 2013
Magma Magazine does a round up of 25 rules for editing poems. The last few?
22. Can you summarise the poem adequately? If so, be wary of the poem.
23. Is your ending an effective and imaginative response to the poem’s tension or simply an easy (but cleverly disguised) retreat from it?
24. “Images can be sly ways of escaping from a poem” – Robert Bly, writing to Tomas Tranströmer, from Airmail.
25. If you’re stuck, take a walk for at least a mile. Concentrate on the moment, not on the poem. Give the unconscious room to work.
from chapbook to trade book at Apt 9.
Endre Farkas and Robert Swereda have some very interesting stuff in the humungous Branch issue still working thru …but I see there’s one by Sneha Madhavan-Reese who has a micro chapbook with phafours earlier this year.
Are you a Tree attendee? There’s a chapbook contest for you — details here