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...
When you’re wandering in the fog though you’ve walked the same path a thousand times since childhood, it can happen that you no longer know where you are. And if you lose yourself in this way, walking in the fog along your normal road, there’s a good chance you’ll come Read more...
Jennifer Still talks to Open Book about her remarkable second collection of poetry, Girlwood (Brick Books), and the expectations — at once liberating and debilitating — that she places on herself as both poet and mother. Join Jennifer Still for the launch of Girlwood this Wednesday, March Read more...
Hello!! It’s a sunny day in Ontario but very cold… There are always new authors and new books coming – 2011 looks very exciting already. And we have new projects that we are working on. Read on… 5 news items and upcoming readings. NEWS 1. More Brick books on Read more...
What happens when two forms of art are bounced off one another? That’s what the 2011 Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poetry Annual 2011: Poet as Art Thief wanted to explore. This year, Arc celebrates ekphrasis — the representation of visual art within a literary work, and vice-versa. Through Read more...
Now based in Toronto, Nico Rogers lived in Winnipeg for several years, but his first book, The Fetch (Brick Books), finds its inspiration thousands of kilometres to the east. It’s something of a hybrid, a collection of prose-poems evoking life in a Newfoundland outport. “To me, the book Read more...
Ron Hynes steals genius and the show – Man of a thousand songs influenced by NL writers on new album – By Ryan Belbin from The Muse The LSPU Hall was filled to capacity earlier this month for the St. John’s release of Ron Hynes’ most recent album, Stealing Genius. The title of the Read more...
You are cordially invited to Open Space Gallery 510 Fort Street, Victoria, BC TEL 250-383-8833 www.openspace.ca Tuesday, December 7, 2010 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Karen Enns & Jane Munro will launch books of poetry, That Other Beauty (Brick Books) and Active Pass (Pedlar Read more...
Colleen Thibaudeau, James Reaney’s widow, talked about their early days together and read from some of his works at the James Reaney Memorial Lecture at the Stratford Public Library on Sunday, October 17. One of the poems she read was “White Grumphies, white snow” from Souwesto Home, Read more...
The ReLit Awards, Canada’s prize for small press–published literature, were handed out last night at the Ottawa International Writers Festival. The winning authors are: Michael Kenyon, for his novel The Beautiful Children (Thistledown Press); Stuart Ross, for his short story collection Buying Read more...
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