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Randall Maggs Recipient of $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award for 2010

TORONTO, March 5 /CNW/ – Renowned Canadian author Randall Maggs has been named the recipient of the $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award for his acclaimed hockey saga Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick Books, 2008). Randall Maggs, a poet, editor, artistic director of Newfoundland’s March Read more...

Congratulations to Randall Maggs – winner of the Kobzar Literary Award for his book Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems!!!

Randall Maggs was awarded the 3rd Kobzar Literary Award for his book Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems in a gala ceremony at the Palais Royale Ballroom in Toronto on Thursday, March 4.  The Kobzar Literary Award is a biennial $25,000 award recognizing outstanding contributions to Canadian literary Read more...

Congratulations to Randall Maggs – Winner of the 3rd Kobzar Literary Award for his book – Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems!!!

Randall Maggs was awarded the Kobzar Literary Award for his book Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems in a gala ceremony at the Palais Royale Ballroom in Toronto on Thursday, March 4. The Kobzar Literary Award is a biennial $25,000 award recognizing outstanding contributions to Canadian literary arts Read more...

TABLE MUSIC: Consciousness and Sense: Chris Hutchinson and Sue Sinclair

At the very heart of what I love about poetry is its attempts to capture in a truly authentic way how we make sense of our lives. Primarily as I see it, this involves issues of identity, experience, and consciousness with our imaginations being the fulcrum the rest of these mental processes rest Read more...

Chris Hutchinson reads in Real Vancouver Writers Series on Wednesday, February 17 at 7 p.m.

Real Vancouver Writers Series at the W2 Culture + Media House – Located at 112 East Hastings Street across from the refurbished Woodwards Building in Downtown Vancouver.  This series started on Wednesday, February 3. Chris Hutchinson reads from his new book Other People’s Lives on Read more...

Congratulations to Lorri Neilsen Glenn – Winner of the 2010 Open Season Award – Malahat Review

Congratulations to Lorri Neilsen Glenn (Halifax, N.S.), Tricia Dower (Victoria, B.C.), and Melissa Jacques (Edmonton, AB) on winning The Malahat Review’s inaugural 2010 Open Season Awards in the Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Non-fiction categories respectively. Of Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s Read more...

Globe Daily Review of The Last House by Michael Kenyon

Finely crafted divagations – Michael Kenyon explores the meaning of home in a new collection The Daily Review, Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Reviewed by Judith Fitzgerald A fabulous collection, The Last House, British Columbian Michael Kenyon’s third full-length volume (following Rack Read more...

Short Haul Engine by Karen Solie – Decade’s Best: Ten Best Books of the Aughts

DECADE’S BEST: Ten Best Books of the Aughts -  From head-scratching poems to social collapse, the best from the printed page. In on-line magazine The Mark News, Michael Lista, poet and essayist, chooses Short Haul Engine by Karen Solie (Brick Books, 2001). “Reconstituting the spectral Read more...

Chris Hutchinson – 9 poems from Other People’s Lives in ditch anthology 3 (canadian men) (innovative poets)

On-line literary magazine ditch includes 9 poems excerpted from Other People’s Lives in anthology 3 (canadian men) (innovative poets) To read these poems, go to pages 104 to 113 at http://issuu.com/ditchpoetry/docs/ditch_anthology_3_men To read more about Other People’s Lives by Chris Read more...

HOOKED IN HOUSE – a dramatic presentation of Hooked, seven poems by Carolyn Smart

Hooked in house – Wine and dine with seven unforgettable women. One actress… Seven formidable women. Seven dishes. All served up in a home. This is HOOKED IN HOUSE. Seven dramatic monologues by Carolyn Smart, performed by Nicky Guadagni alongside the exquisite food offerings of Sandy Read more...

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