Later in the fall, listen for a small machines talk interview with Amanda Earl and finding a voice with Bruce Kauffman on 101.9fm, Kingston. Watch for a reading broadcast from the Wakefield library.
Haiku
How about that. It seems something like a longer poem has started to form. I’d almost forgotten the sensation. But I sat and the world and its clocks fell away and I have a draft.
I’ve been feeling the occasional haiku, aided by reading many. They are concrete and present and that focus helps me feel present.
In the Seabeck Getaway online in the Kukai, 12 people voted for my haiku from the weekend as best of the 230-odd poems. That put me about mid-pack. Gratifyingly, the poem that I thought was hands down the best, democratic voting agreed with.
Nicholas Klacsanzk got first place in the Seabeck Haiku Getaway 2020 Annual Kukai:
dahlia blossom—
the many layers
of her touch
CBC All in a Day
Here is a super thrilling thing. After listening to Alan Neal report on poetry for probably 15 years we talked, he and I on CBC radio’s All in A Day. I think I bit-down on fan girl enough to be coherant.
This was a lead up to my reading at VERSeFest to launch footlights.
VERSeFest reading
Watch for my reading at VERSeFest 2020, the 10th anniversary edition on Nov 6th with Bahar Orang and Sadiqa de Meijer. [Edit: Became an event with Ken Victor replacing Sadiqa.]
Hosted with interview by Jenny Haysom, the reading is now on playback.
Pedlar
You probably heard Pedlar Press is closing this December after a couple deals to buy it fell though. Beth Follett has some thoughts on the publishing journey for those who may join, for one,
“Literary publishing is not a smaller version of commercial or large-house publishing. Our markets are absolutely different.”
” I do not believe the size of the literary market in Canada has grown that much since 1996. Larger lists, larger print runs, ebook production: none of these match current literary market demands. What has grown, what is being demanded, is diversity of voice.”