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Welcome to The 49th Shelf!! Celebrate Canadian Books!!!

Read all about it!!! For Immediate Release: February 21, 2012: Canadian Bookshelf Announces Amazon.ca As Lead Sponsor and Rebrands as The 49th Shelf Canadian books are getting a well-deserved boost today. Canadian Bookshelf announced that Amazon.ca is its lead sponsor for 2012, and that the Read more...

DC Reid, a past President of the League of Canadian Poets, announces the PK Page Trust Fund

DC Reid, a past President, presented a new League legacy fund at the 2011 AGM in Toronto, “I am pleased to announce the creation of the PK Page Trust Fund under the TD Waterhouse Private Giving Foundation.” “She was an inspiration to many of our members, including myself, and made a huge Read more...

E. Alex Pierce celebrates “Vox Humana” with its Cape Breton launch

What’s goin on, Cape Breton’s Go & Do Guide – November 27, 2011 “There’s a difference between a bunch of poems and a book,” E. Alex Pierce says about the process of preparing her first book of verse, Vox Humana. Pierce, from Sable River, Nova Scotia, officially launched Vox Read more...

If it’s Thursday, it’s IOW Verse Day by Judith Fitzgerald, Globe and Mail blog, September 15, 2011

BRICK BOOKS BEAUTEOUS AUTUMN BOUNTY (FINAL FALL HARVEST). Kitty Lewis, General Manager of Brick Books, also sent along a list of a pair of just-published books, A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth by Stephanie Bolster and E. Alex Pierce’s Vox Humana (as well as one of its most highly Read more...

Hooked (Hookedinhouse Productions) – 2011 SummerWorks Review

As soon as the actress, Nicky Guadagni came on stage I knew I was going to like whatever she did. There was something about her energy and her face which is so expressive and open that even before she spoke, I was Hooked. Guadagni plays four different characters in this piece, moving swiftly from Read more...

More kudos for Hooked at Summerworks

Hooked By Jon Kaplan – NOW RATING     N N N N N Nicky Guadagni portrays four women drawn from Carolyn Smart’s book of poetic monologues [Hooked: seven poems]: three writers (Elizabeth Smart, Jane Bowles and Carson McCullers) and, the wild card, Unity Valkyrie Mitford, an upper-class Read more...

Los Parronales, Chile – writing retreat with Don McKay and Marlene Creates

Re-seeing Things:  Two Weeks of Poetry & Perception in Chile with Don McKay – 22nd January — 4th February, 2012 Here is a chance to explore and extend creative resources in an inspiring setting—a sunny vineyard within sight of the Andes. Workshops on your poems will be combined Read more...

A rave for the Summerworks production of “Hooked” by Carolyn Smart and huge ups to Nicky Guadagni!!

SUMMERWORKS ROUNDUP by Lynn on August 12, 2011 in The Passionate Playgoer I’ve seen 19 of the 24 shows I can see of the 41 shows on offer at Summerworks. Here are my top five stand-outs in alpha order: HOOKED LITTLE ONE MALARIA LULLABY THE SAFE WORD YOU SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME In almost every Read more...

Hooked by Carolyn Smart, performed by Nicky Guadagni – now playing at Summerworks in Toronto

NOW Review- Nicky Guadagni portrays four women drawn from Carolyn Smart’s book of poetic monologues: three writers (Elizabeth Smart, Jane Bowles and Carson McCullers) and, the wild card, Unity Valkyrie Mitford, an upper-class Brit who adored Hitler. Guadagni’s arresting work Read more...

Congratulations to Julia McCarthy – winner of the CAA Poetry Award for her book Return from Erebus!!

The CAA Poetry Award For a volume of poetry by one poet The 2011 winner is Julia McCarthy, Upper Kennetcook, Nova Scotia, for Return from Erebus (Brick Books). Prize: $1000 and a silver medal. Julia McCarthy is originally from Toronto. She spent ten years living in the United States, most Read more...

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