Lampman-Scott 2009 Award Short List Announced. The Arc Poetry Society is pleased to announce the three finalists for the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award for Poetry. This award honours the poetry and friendship of Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott. Their literary friendship helped foster Read more...
John Barton reads from his new book Hymn in Winnipeg on Thursday, October 8 for Prairie Fire and at Aqua Books on Friday, October 9. In Toronto on Tuesday, October 13 at the Art Bar poetry series and in Kingston, Ontario on Wednesday, October 14 at 7 p.m. for Poetry & Company with John Donlan Read more...
Books on the Radio has finally launched! The first interview was conducted in the front room of the temporarily empty Kelowna home of poet Chris Hutchinson. During the interview we discussed telepathy, Henry Miller’s the Tropic of Cancer, Sharon Thesen, institutionalized poets and John Read more...
Congratulations to David O’Meara whose book Noble Gas, Penny Black has been shortlisted for 2 awards: Shortlisted in the poetry category for the 9th Annual ReLit Awards. The winners will be celebrated at the Ottawa International Writers Festival in October. Shortlisted in the English fiction Read more...
June – July 2009. The Scoop (Tamworth, Ontario) reviewed Hooked by Carolyn Smart. The reviewer Jeannie Harrison wrote ” HOOKED is a sensational book of poetry about the difficult (you might say twisted) lives of seven infamous women addicted to drink, sex, love, murder and/or Read more...
June 28, 2009. In the Halifax Chronicle-Herald Stephen Clare writes “N.L. bard combines two loves: verse, hockey – Poems tell story of NHL goalie” – an interview with Randall Maggs. “in the poet’s latest offering, Night Work; The Sawchuk Poems. “Of all of Read more...
Jan Conn, poet, biologist. It is Jan’s biography, I believe, that makes her work completely different from anyone else’s, that gives layers to her words that we can unravel. She writes with the vivid imagery of Latin America fuels Isabel Allende’s genius, yet the fact that she Read more...
An old subject, but a fresh approach – The history of love poetry is the history of poetry itself. One of the oldest known fragments of written verse consists of a few mushy lines of Sumerian cuneiform; it begins, “Bridegroom, dear to my heart, Goodly is your beauty, Read more...
The Literary Arts Foundation of NL and the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador announce “Maggs, Wangersky take top book prizes” (St. John’s, May 6, 2009) Randall Maggs and Russell Wangersky came away the winners at the 2009 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards Read more...
rob mclennan reports on his blog, April 30, 2009 - Ottawa poet David O’Meara might have had his book appear last August, but considering he was travelling Europe for six months starting August 20, this was the first Ottawa launch of his third poetry collection Noble Gas, Penny Black Read more...
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