Something of a consistent source of surprise, the little press that is based in Toronto, but does its poetry from Cobourg. The list this season is decidly Atlantic-centric. Which I’m into. Title: In This Thin Rain Author: Nelson Ball Release Date: April Collection Number: Hard to Quantify. Let’s just go with “many”. Time Since Last [...]
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Retail 2012: Mansfield Press
February 11, 2012Lampert, Lowther Shortlists
April 4, 2011The Finalists for the 2011 Gerald Lampert Award for best debut collection of poetry in English by a Canadian poet are (the parentheticals are author’s home, press): The Crow’s Vow by Susan Briscoe (Montreal, Signal/Vehicule) That Other Beauty by Karen Enns (Victoria, Brick) Tiny, Frantic, Stronger by Jeff Latosik (Toronto, Insomniac) [sic] by Nikki Reimer [...]
Influency’s Return
April 2, 2011Good morning, everyone. I just saw that the University of Toronto’s Cont Ed centre is going to offer the Influency Salon again. I’d like it very much if somebody saw this post, read facilitator Margaret Christakos’s founding document over here on the program’s website, and registered for the course. I’ve had the opportunity to participate [...]
Harbourfront/NOW Magazine Open Stage Night 3
March 3, 2011Hi everyone. Just a heads up, Harbourfront has posted the readers for its third annual open stage night. This is a fun evening, it feels like something akin to poetry speed-dating: very retail, very quick-n-dirty. The list is picked at random from a larger pool of applicants, which depending on who you ask either results [...]
Retail 2011: Insomniac Press
January 25, 2011Next on the list is little Insomniac Press. Insomniac tends to do one book a season, with the occasional second title added for veteran poets launching collecteds or selected. This spring is one of those selections, with a short selected coming out from Stan Rogal called Dance, Monster! But, the major concern of this series [...]
Retail 2011: Coach House Books
January 21, 2011The Coach House is next. Just two titles from nichol lane this season. CH has, quite admirably, started to really spread out their new collections. They did three last fall. Both of their two (non-reprint) offerings this year are debuts. That’s also a surprise. Title: A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People Author: Gabe [...]
Retail 2011: Biblioasis
January 19, 2011We continue on our merry parade over the 2011 Canadian poetry horizon. Despite getting some exciting future-Vox news today, I shall keep my eyes on what’s in front of me. What’s in front of me is the upcoming publishing plans of Biblioasis, another press I missed last time out. After a delay in getting their [...]
A Back-to-School Reprint
August 23, 2010This time last year, while working for Open Book Toronto as their blogger in residence, I posted the following article about the poetry (and specifically, Canadian poetry) offerings at our city’s two largest halls of learning, U of T and York. Because I recently felt the radiating dread of a newly-backpacked eleven year old while [...]
The Answer Season
April 16, 2010So the sprinting stallion that is National Poetry Month has just crested the midway point of its race, and is now dragging Canadian Poetry’s population of bridge trolls and agoraphobics down the final straightaway. There are a lot of month-long projects on the go around the country, some lame, others interesting. rob mclennan’s version of [...]
Influency 8
March 4, 2010Hello all. The newest incarnation of Influency: A Poetry Salon is now open for registration. Facilitated by Margaret Christakos, Influency strikes me as the near-perfect poetry discussion group. For a semester in the life of the University of Toronto’s Continuing Education program, poets present papers on other poets in a sort of intertextual parade. Participants [...]
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