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Poetry Project: John Barton, May 15, 2008
| Fri, 16 May 2008 17:43
John Barton has published eight books of poetry and five chapbooks, including Designs from the Interior (Anansi, 1993), Sweet Ellipsis (ECW, 1998), Hypothesis (Anansi, 2001) and Asymmetries, (Frog Hollow, 2004). A bilingual edition of West of Darkness: Emily Carr, a self-portrait, was published by BuschekBooks in 2006. He has won three Archibald Lampman Awards, the Patricia Hackett Prize (University of Western Australia), an Ottawa Book Award, and a CBC Literary Award. His poems have appeared in anthologies and magazines across Canada, USA, Australia, and the United Kingdom. He lives in Victoria,...
Poetry Project: Nathalie Stephens, May 15, 2008
| Thu, 15 May 2008 13:27
Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël) writes l'entre-genre in English and French. She is the author of a dozen books including The Sorrow And The Fast Of It (Nightboat Books (US), 2007), Touch to Affliction (Coach House, 2006), Paper City (Coach House, 2003), Je Nathanaël (l'Hexagone, 2003) and L'Injure (l'Hexagone, 2004), a finalist for the 2005 Prix Alain-Grandbois and Prix Trillium. Je Nathanaël exists in English self-translation (BookThug, 2006). Other work exists in Basque and Slovene with book-length translations in Bulgarian (Paradox Publishing, 2007). In addition to translating herself, Stephens...
Poetry Project: Robert Majzels, May 8, 2008
| Mon, 12 May 2008 15:30
Robert Majzels is a novelist, playwright, poet and translator, born in Montréal, Québec. In 2007, he won the Alcuin Society Prize for Excellence in Book Design for the limited edition of his book, Apikoros Sleuth. This Night the Kapo, an award winning full-length play, was produced at the Berkley Street Theatre in Toronto, in March 2004, and his translation of France Daigle’s Just Fine won the Governor General’s Award in 2000. With Erín Moure, Robert has also translated several books of poetry by Nicole Brossard. He is presently an Associate Professor in English at the University of Calgary....
Poetry Project: Erín Moure, (Andrés Ajens and Chus Pato), May 8, 2008
| Mon, 12 May 2008 12:56
Andrés Ajens was born in Concepción, Chile in 1961. He has published several books of poetry, essays, and translations, among them El entrevero (Cuarto Propio/Plural, Santiago de Chile/La Paz, Bolivia), No insista, carajo (Intemperie, Santiago, 2004), Más íntimas mistura (Intemperie, 1998), Alberto Caeiro: Poemas inconjuntos y otros poemas (from Portuguese; Dolmen, Santiago, 1996), La última carta de Rimbaud (essay-fiction, Intemperie, 1996). He co-edits the journal Mar con Soroche (Santiago/La Paz); and has worked to set up Lenguandina (www.lenguandina.org) with Aymara translator and linguist...
Poetry Project: Claire Huot, May 8, 2008
| Sun, 11 May 2008 13:51
Claire Huot is a sinologist who has written two works on contemporary Chinese culture: La Petite révolution culturelle, 1994 and China’s New Cultural Scene, 2000. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese she has been living in and out of China since 1980 and was Canada’s cultural counselor in Beijing from 2000 to 2002. She is presently an instructor in the Faculty of Communication & Culture at the University of Calgary where she teaches China-related courses. Her first novel, with a Mandarin speaking heroine, is a murder mystery entitled THE PRISON TANGRAM (Mercury Press, 2007). To listen to Oana...
Poetry Project: Stephanie Bolster April 24, 2008
| Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:40
Stephanie Bolster has published White Stone: The Alice Poems (Signal/Vehicule, 1998), which won the Governor General's Award and the Gerald Lampert Award; Two Bowls of Milk (McClelland & Stewart, 1999), which won the Archibald Lampman Award and was shortlisted for the Trillium; and Pavilion (M&S, 2002). She recently edited The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems by the late Ottawa poet Diana Brebner. Her first book, White Stone, will appear in French with Les Editions du Noroit in autumn 2007, translated by Daniel Canty. She lives in Pointe-Claire, Quebec and teaches creative writing at...
Poetry Project: Natalee Caple April 24, 2008
| Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:41
Natalee Caple is the author of four books of fiction and poetry. She is co-editor with Michelle Berry of an anthology, The Notebooks: Interviews and New Fiction from Contemporary Writers (Doubleday Canada). Her short story collection, The Heart Is Its Own Reason, was reviewed by The New York Times. Her novel, The Plight of the Happy People in an Ordinary World, was optioned for film, and her book of poetry, A More Tender Ocean, was nominated for a Gerald Lampert Award. Her latest novel, Mackerel Sky, was published in Canada (Thomas Allen Books), and in U.S.A (St. Martin’s Press). To listen...
Poetry Project: Phil Hall March 14, 2008
| Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:46
Phil Hall's first book, Eighteen Poems, was published in Mexico City in 1973. Since then he has published 13 other books of poems, & 5 chapbooks. Among his titles are: Homes (1979), Old Enemy Juice (1988), The Unsaid (1992), & Hearthedral'A Folk-Hermetic (1996). Trouble Sleeping (2000) was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for poetry. In 2005, Brick Books (celebrating 20 years as Hall’s publisher) brought out An Oak Hunch, which was nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2006. He has been poet-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario, the Sage Hill Writing Experience...
Poetry Project: Robin Blaser March 14, 2008
| Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:38
Robin Blaser was born in Denver, Colorado and was a key figure of the San Francisco Renaissance of the 50’s and 60’s. He moved to Canada in 1966 and began teaching at Simon Fraser University, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He has authored numerous poetry collections, such as Pell Mell, Cups and Syntax, all included in The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser (University of California Press, 2006), which also published The Fire: Collected Essays of Robin Blaser (2006). He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry,...
Poetry Project: Carmine Starnino Feburary 28, 2008
| Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:37
Carmine Starnino has published three volumes of poetry, The New World (Vehicule Press, 1997), Credo (McGill-University Press, 2000) which won the Canadian Authors Associate Prize and the David McKeen Award, and With English Subtitles (Gaspereau Press, 2004) which won the A.M. Klein Prize and the F.G. Bressani Prize. He is the author of A Lover's Quarrel, a collection of essays on Canadian poetry, and the editor of The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry. He lives in Montreal, where he works as an associate editor for Maisonneuve and Books in Canada. To listen to Oana open the evening...
Poetry Project: Elizabeth Bachinsky Feburary 28, 2008
| Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:36
Elizabeth Bachinsky is the author of two collections of poetry Curio: Grotesques and Satires from the Electronic Age (BookThug, 2005) and Home of Sudden Service (Nightwood, 2006). Her poetry has been nominated for The Bronwen Wallace Award and The Governor General's Award and has recently been translated into French and Chinese. She was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, was raised in Prince George and Maple Ridge, BC, and currently lives in Vancouver where she curates the Robson Reading Series and runs Crow & Carrion Press, a micropress specializing in producing limited print runs of Canadian...
Poetry Project: Brea Burton and Jill Hartman December 6, 2007
| Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:31
Brea Burton has recently completed an M.A. specialising in contemporary Canadian literature at the University of Calgary. One of her academic essays was recently published in The Prairies Lost and Found , St John's College Press. She has participated in numerous readings and has produced a few chapbooks through her imprint one trick pony press. Her poetry has most recently been published in NoD, filling Station, and Matrix magazine. Excerpts from her collaborative work with Jill Harman (The Booty, forthcoming from Mercury Press, fall 2007) have been performed at the "Poetry and Sexuality"...
Poetry Project: Jon-Paul Fiorentino December 6, 2007
| Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:33
Jon-Paul Fiorentino is a writer and editor. His most recent book of poetry is The Theory of the Loser Class (Coach House Books, 2006). He is the author of the poetry book Hello Serotonin (Coach House Books, 2004) and the humour book Asthmatica (Insomniac Press, 2005). His most recent editorial projects are the anthologies Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour (DC Books, 2003) and Post-Prairie - a collaborative effort with Robert Kroetsch, (Talonbooks, 2005). He lives in Montreal where he teaches writing at Concordia University and is the Managing Editor of Matrix magazine. To listen to...
Poetry Project: Rachel Zolf November 9, 2007
| Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:29
Rachel Zolf’s newest collection of poetry, Human Resources, was released in spring 2007 by Coach House Books. Her previous collections are Masque (The Mercury Press, 2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and Her absence, this wanderer (BuschekBooks, 1999), which was a finalist in the CBC Literary Competition. New York’s Belladonna* books published a chapbook of Zolf's poetry in 2005 entitled from Human Resources, and her work also appears in the anthology Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry. She lives in Toronto and was the founding poetry editor of...
Poetry Project: Jeff Derksen November 9, 2007
| Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:28
Jeff Derksen is a poet and a founding member the Kootenay School of Writing. His poetry has been anthologized in The Canadian Long Poem Anthology, East of Main and Verse: Postmodern Poetry and Language Writing. His most recent book of poetry is Transnational Muscle Cars (Talon 2003), preceded by Dwell (1994) and Down Time (1990) which won the 1991 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award at the BC Book Prizes. His work also was included in The Gertrude Stein Anthology of Innovative North American Poetry: 1993. He is a contributing editor to XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics (Minneapolis) and West Coast Line. he...
Poetry Project: Sheri-D Wilson October 19, 2007
| Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:26
Sheri-D Wilson has six books including Swerve (1993), Between Lovers (2002), and Re:Zoom (Frontenac House, 2005) which won the Stephan G. Stephansson Award, and two Spoken Word CD’s, sweet taste of lightning (2001), Re:Cord (2007). She has produced VideoPoems for BRAVO!: Airplane Paula (2001), Spinsters Hanging in Trees (2002 ' Won Gold at Houston Film Festival, three ACE awards, and the 2003 AMPIA for best short), and Surf Rave Girrly Girrl (2004). Her work is featured on CBC’s Word Beat, Sounds like Canada, Canada Reads and ZED TV. In 2003 she won the title Heavyweight of Poetry for...
Poetry Project: Ian Roy October 19, 2007
| Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:29
Ian Roy (www.ianroy.ca) is the author of The Longest Winter, a collaborative art book, and People Leaving, a collection of short stories. People Leaving was short-listed for both the Upper Canada Writers' Craft Award and the City of Ottawa Book Award. His work has appeared in numerous magazines including Arc, Descant and Geist. His short-story, “Family,” was recently included in the anthology, Decalogue 2. His most recent book is Red Bird, a collection of poems published by BuschekBooks. He lives in Ottawa. To listen to Oana open the evening & introduce, click here To listen to Ian Part...
Poetry Project: John Havelda October 11, 2007
| Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:25
Of Hungarian parents, John Havelda is an English poet and visual artist who lives in Oporto, Portugal. As a result, much of his work is multilingual. His work has appeared in magazines such as Chain, danDelion, The Paper and Oficina de Poesia. His publications include mor (1997) a bilingual book of texts and visual work translated by Manuel Portela, and Unparalled Candour (2005). Forthcoming are Where Mr. Reagan Learnt His Craft, After This You (a collaboration with Fred Wah), and pullllllllllllllllllllllllll an anthology of Portuguese translations of contemporary poetry from Canada. He also writes...
Poetry Project: Jan Zwicky September 28, 2007
| Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:31
Jan Zwicky’s books include Wittgenstein Elegies (Brick, 1986), The New Room (Coach House, 1989), Lyric Philosophy (UTP, 1992), Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (Cashion, 1996; Brick, 1998; Governor General’s Award, 1999), Twenty-One Small Songs (Barbarian Press, 2000), Wisdom & Metaphor (Gaspereau Press, 2003; short-listed for Governor General's Award, 2004), Robinson's Crossing (Brick Books, 2004; short-listed for Governor General's Award, 2004; Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, 2004), and, most recently, Thirty-Seven Small Songs and Thirteen Silences (Gaspereau Press, 2005). Zwicky has also...
Poetry Project: John Mateer September 28, 2007
| Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:50
John Mateer was born in South Africa. He has published five books of poems, as well as several chapbooks that have appeared in South Africa, Australia, Indonesia and Japan. He has also written a prose travelogue, Semar's Cave: an Indonesian Journal. He has read his work at poetry festivals in Asia and Europe, and most recently in Japan and in Malaysia. On his book The Ancient Capital of Images, David Burleigh of The Japan Times writes: Mateer's manner and the complex resonances of his work reminded me a little of the prose of his compatriot, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee. The poems...
Poetry Project: Oana Avasilichioaei Opening The Evening March 15th 2007
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Poetry Project: Oana Avasilichioaei Opening The Evening March 15th 2007
Poetry Project: Yedda Morrison March 15th 2005 Part One
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Poetry Project: Yedda Morrison March 15th 2005 Part One
Poetry Project: Yedda Morrison March 15th 2005 Part Two
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Poetry Project: Yedda Morrison March 15th 2005 Part Two
Poetry Project: Yedda Morrison March 15th 2005 Part Three
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Poetry Project: Yedda Morrison March 15th 2005 Part Three
Poetry Project: Yedda Morrison March 15th 2005 Part Four
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Poetry Project: Yedda Morrison March 15th, 2005 Part Four
