We have a guest blogger this week. Montreal poet Julie Bruck is the author of a superbly crafted, emotionally compelling collection of poems called The End of Travel (Brick Books, 1999). Here, she describes her efforts to recover some remembrance of the poet Elizabeth Bishop, who once lived in Read more...
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. (From T.S. Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent) No art form suffers more in the collision between the private and public worlds than poetry. Fiction writers conceal themselves behind Read more...
Marcus McCann / Nati0nal / Tuesday, December 22, 2009 — Hymn. By John Barton – There are two competing forces at work in Hymn, John Barton’s ninth full-length collection of poetry. First, the narrator seems to have unclenched a little. Barton has always had an unflinching eye, Read more...
Stumbling upon a reading: “Up the Ottawa Without Despair” – December 21st, 2009 by Maxim Cossette It’s Thursday, December 17th and I find myself at the Raw Sugar Cafe, it’s on Somerset, half a block West of Bronson. Mary Clayton’s soul infused version of Read more...
Stumbling upon a reading: “Up the Ottawa Without Despair” December 21st, 2009 by Maxim Cossette It’s Thursday, December 17th and I find myself at the Raw Sugar Cafe, it’s on Somerset, half a block West of Bronson. Mary Clayton’s soul infused version of “Southern Man” pumps through Read more...
photo courtesy of fieldtrip – Behind a reading scene – December 4th, 2009 by Brendan McNally – David O’Meara and the Plan 99 Reading Series “I never thought we’d celebrate the tenth anniversary,” says David O’Meara of Plan 99, the Ottawa “gold standard” reading Read more...
Monday Magazine, November 12 – 18, 2009 – Review by E.G. Anderson – Wisdom and passion run throughout John Barton’s new book of poetry, as he grapples with predestination, human connection and the inescapability of the self. As he revisits his past, Barton spans his childhood Read more...
Poetry Review: Othering People’s Lives by J.A. Weingarten (Maple Tree Literary Supplement) - Chris Hutchinson’s new volume of poetry, Other People’s Lives, delivers exactly what its title promises: a cross section and intersection of life stories. Yet he seems equally concerned with Read more...
Sunday, November 08, 2009 – Bill Brownstein, Montreal Gazette - The worlds of poetry and pro hockey rarely intersect. But they did two years ago with the release of Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick Books) by Randall Maggs, and the result, as late Habs broadcaster Danny Gallivan Read more...
I’m not sure what the question is here: Who thinks to combine hockey and poetry, or how remarkable it is that the daring combination has proven so successful? But those questions shouldn’t take up too much press and overwhelm the fact Maggs, like any poet, chose a subject for his poems and Read more...
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