James Reaney, 81: National literary icon had 50-year career as playwright, poet and professor
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Month: August, 2008
Elimination Dance by Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje’s poem in a live, bilingual performance by Hakola, Paola Comis, Anne Steffens, Bénédicte Villain and Simon Texier in Paris, 2004. Part of Hakola’s musical rendering of Ondaatje’s work in his show “Une Dizaine de morts”. Read more...
Elimination Dance by Michael Ondaatje – The Movie
A crowded ballroom, an orchestra, the master of ceremonies approaches the microphone and asks if anyone has ever forgotten a urine sample at the post office. A man hides his face in his hands and leaves the dance floor with his partner. This is how the elimination dance works: an embarassing Read more...
“Night Work: A Sawchuk Poem” – a dramatic short film based on the book Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems by Randall Maggs.
“I was attracted to the work because it’s rife with incredible powerful imagery right from the first page,” states Justin Simms, St. John’s-based Director of “Night Work: A Sawchuk Poem” by long-time Corner Brook resident and poet Randall Maggs. “For ten Read more...
Steven Price – Anatomy of Keys – Bookbits author interview
A first book of poetry is usually a collection gathered from the poet’s entire life output. Not so Steven Price. Anatomy of Keys is an ambitious project part poetry, part biography and all wonderful. A poetic biography of Harry Houdini. Interviewer: Craig Rintoul, Executive Producer, Read more...
Editor Mark Abley – Anne Szumigalski – When Earth Leaps Up – interview
Anne Szumigalski, the Saskatoon poet and 1995 winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, died in 1999. Her editor and literary executor Mark Abley has produced a posthumous collection of new poems When Earth Leaps Up. Interviewer: Craig Rintoul, Executive Producer, Bookbits – Read more...
Agnes Walsh – Going Around With Bachelors – Bookbits author interview
Agnes Walsh is the poet laureate of St. John’s, Newfoundland. She is also the author of Going Around with Bachelors, a wonderful collection of poetry largely inspired from her life on Placentia Bay. She spoke to Bookbits just before a recent poetry reading at a Toronto Read more...
Lorri Neilsen Glenn – Combustion – Bookbits author interview
Lorri Neilsen Glenn only ‘came out’ as a poet in 2001. Before that she had been an academic. Now she is poet laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The reasons for her rapid rise are clear. She is a stunning new writer who can stir laughter and tears with equal skill. Lorri Neilsen Glenn Read more...
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