some Chaudiere Books author activity

Max Middle + John Lavery read as the Max Middle Sound Project at the Factory Reading Series (Ottawa) on Thursday, February 28; Stephen Brockwell reads March 2 at the Dusty Owl Reading Series (Ottawa); rob mclennan launches Ottawa: The Unknown City on March 15 at Nicholas Hoare Books (Ottawa);

two new links;

an interview with Monty Reid, and a note on John Newlove by Zach Wells;

some new visual poems by Max Middle

Some new visual poems by Max Middle (decalogue: ten Ottawa poets) now up at Other Cl/utter;

a review of John Newlove

in Vancouver's Georgia Straight; in the Simon Fraser University student paper, The Peak;

Emily Falvey on CHUO

Tune in to Click here Wednesday at 5 pm, on CHUO-FM89, for an interview and live reading with writers Emily Falvey (decalogue 2: ten Ottawa fiction writers) and Jay MillAr [see his 12 or 20 questions here], reading in Ottawa this week. Also, Montreal band Kid Sentiment.

Click here is a one hour interview-based programme broadcast on CHUO-FM89 (and at http://www.chuo.fm/) Wednesdays at 5 pm. It deals with the arts, socio-political issues, and community events.

You can find out more about Click here by checking out our web site at: http://web.ncf.ca/fk055
Mitchell Caplan
Producer/host
Click here

John Newlove article

in the Vancouver Sun;

Nicholas Lea + Anne Le Dressay open for Edmonton author Alice Major (U of A Press);

Chaudiere Books presents:
a reading/launch by Edmonton poet Alice Major
launching her newest poetry collection, The Office Tower Tales (University of Alberta Press)

with opening readings by Chaudiere Books' authors Nicholas Lea + Anne Le Dressay

Sunday, April 6, 2008 at 2pm; free
at mother tongue books, 1067 Bank Street (at Sunnyside), Ottawa (link to map)
info: 613 730 2346

Alice Major emigrated from Scotland at the age of eight, and grew up in Toronto before coming west to work as a weekly newspaper reporter in British Columbia. She has published eight poetry collections and a novel for young readers. She is a previous winner of the Malahat Review's long poem contest and Broken Jaw Publishing's manuscript contest, "The Poets' Corner Award", as well as runner-up for awards such as the Pat Lowther award, the City of Edmonton Book Prize and the Stephan G. Stephanson Award (Writers Guild of Alberta). Her work has appeared widely in Canadian periodicals and she has read across Canada as well as in the U.K. and Australia.

Alice has been active in the writing community for two decades. She is past president of the Writers Guild of Alberta and of the League of Canadian Poets. She was the second chair of the Edmonton Arts Council and was appointed to a two-year term as the city's first Poet Laureate in June, 2005.

The Office Tower Tales takes as its starting point The Canterbury Tales, but transforms it to a northern city in the final year of the second millennium. Instead of being told by pilgrims en route to Canterbury, the tale-telling takes place in a contemporary office tower, by women on their lunch and coffee breaks. Through the lighthearted interplay of Chaucer, the 1001 Nights and other literary touchstones, readers meet receptionist Aphrodite, Pandora (expectant grandmother from accounting) and Sheherazad, the girl from public relations. The stories that come as pilgrims to Sheherazad range over genres and centuries, from office gossip and urban legend to wildlife documentaries and historical narratives. They explore the intricate relations between men and women, power and love, individual and society.

some upcoming chaudiere author activity;

Ian Roy (decalogue 2: ten Ottawa fiction writers) [see his 12 or 20 questions here] is the featured reader at the TREE Reading Series, Ottawa, on Tuesday, February 12; Emily Falvey (decalogue 2: ten Ottawa fiction writers) and Monty Reid (Disappointment Island) read with Toronto poet Jay MillAr [see his 12 or 20 questions here] as part of Ottawa's AB Reading Series #5, Feburary 15; Chaudiere author/publisher rob mclennan (The Ottawa City Project) reads at the University of Calgary on Monday, February 11, with his "return to Ottawa" reading already scheduled for June 8 at the Dusty Owl Reading Series; Chaudiere Books friend Amanda Earl (an above/ground press author) reads as part of "Ottawa International Development Week" along with Ray Deonandan, Lise Careau, Betty Warrington-Kearsley and Cyril Dabydeen on February 4 at 4pm in Room 509, Arts Bldg., 70 Laurier Ave. East,University of Ottawa (ph. 613-230-7854); the Vancouver launch/documentary screening of John Newlove's A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove happens February 8th;