rob mclennan at The Resonance Reading Series, October 4, 2016 (Montreal QC

rob mclennan reads at The Resonance Reading Series in Montreal on October 4 as part of a stellar line-up of poetry and prose. rob reads with Joni Murphy, Sandra Ridley, Joseph Denham, Owain Peach Nicholson and Kasia Juno.

Resonance Café
5175A Ave du Parc, Montreal, Quebec H2V 4G3
9-11:30pm
For more information, check out the Facebook link here.

LCP POETS’ CORNER: ON MENTORSHIP | PEARL PIRIE on rob mclennan

Chaudiere author Pearl Pirie has written a generous piece on author/publisher rob mclennan and mentorship, including her time as a workshop attendee, over at The League of Canadian Poets blog.

Arc Poetry Magazine presents Ottawa Poetry Awards Reading

Each year, Arc Poetry Magazine is proud to honour Ottawa poets. We are pleased to present  finalists for the Archibald Lampman Award for the outstanding book of poetry published in 2015 by a National-Capital area author.   Also featured are winners of the Diana Brebner Prize competition, which honours emerging poets in the Ottawa area. 

The readings will take place at Pressed, 750 Gladstone Ave, Ottawa, Ontario at 7:00pm on Tuesday, October 4 [Nicholas Lea will not be in attendance].

The award is named in honour of Archibald Lampman (1861 – 1899), one of Canada’s finest nineteenth-century poets. Lampman moved to Ottawa in 1882, and much of his metaphysical nature poetry was inspired by the National Capital region.

The Archibald Lampman Award will be presented on October 19, at Ottawa City Hall, in conjunction with the Ottawa Book Awards. Congratulations to the finalists and their publishers!  Arc would also like to thank judges Liz Howard, Shane Book and Sachiko Murakami.

 The Lampman finalists are: 

David Groulx   Wabigoon River Poems  (Kegodonce Press, Neyaashiinigmiing, 2015)

A ferocious, erudite collection centred around an unflinching epic poem, breathtaking in its wide-ranging look at oppression, revolution, and survival. 

Nicholas Lea, Understander  (Chaudiere Books. Ottawa, 2015)

A brilliant book of compact lyrics, where themes of alienation and fragility meet dark humour and hope. 

Pearl Pirie, the pet radish, shrunken: (BookThug, Toronto, 2015)

Pirie rubs words until they spark and fume, turning the common into an uncommon blaze. Every line is joyful in its eccentricities, and eminently re-readable as it tumbles through language.

The event will also feature the finalists for the Diana Brebner Prize, given for a poem by an emerging Ottawa-area poet not yet published in book form.   The 2015 winner of the Brebner Prize is Claire Farley for her poem ‘NU’. Farley lives and works in Ottawa where she is the co-founder and co-editor of the literary journal Canthius.  The Brebner Honourable Mention went to Susan J. Atkinson, whose poems have appeared in literary journals in the U.S. and Canada. She was named one of the Hot Ottawa Voices by the Tree Reading Series. 

For further information contact Arc Poetry Magazine at arc@arcpoetry.ca.

Brick Books' Celebration of Canadian Poetry : Pearl Pirie on rob mclennan

Pearl Pirie was good enough to do a short write-up on the work of rob mclennan for the Brick Books Celebration of Canadian Poetry. Thanks, Pearl!

coming soon : The Calgary Renaissance, eds. beaulieu + mclennan,

Edited by derek beaulieu and rob mclennan, and brilliantly designed by Chaudiere co-publisher Christine McNair, The Calgary Renaissance highlights some of the diverse and astonishing experimental poetry and fiction that has emerged out of the past two decades of Calgary writing. An essential portrait of some of the most engaged and radical of Canadian writing and writers from one of the country’s most important literary centres.

Contributors include: Hollie Adams, Jonathan Ball, Braydon Beaulieu, Christian Bök, Louis Cabri, Natalee Caple, Weyman Chan, Jason Christie, Chris Ewart, Aaron Giovannone, Helen Hajnoczky, Susan Holbrook, Ken Hunt, Jani Krulc, Larissa Lai, Naomi K. Lewis, Nicole Markotic, Suzette Mayr, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Sandy Pool, Sharanpal Ruprai, Ian Sampson, Jordan Scott, Nikki Sheppy, Natalie Simpson, Emily Ursuliak, Natalie Zina Walschots, Andrew Wedderburn, Julia Williams, Rita Wong, Eric Zboya, and Paul Zits.

Introduction by derek beaulieu and rob mclennan. Cover by Natalie Lauchlan and Nathaniel Mah.

Order today from your local, independent bookstore! Keep an eye here for information on ordering copies directly, most likely by October.

$25.00, Paperback, ISBN 9781928107071

Amanda Earl gives a Tree workshop, September 13, 2016 (Ottawa)

Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 6:45 - 7:45pm

Tree Reading Series

Gallery 101, 51 B Young Street, Ottawa

BEYOND SURFACE: CLOSE READING & RESPONSE BASED ON SOUND, SHAPE & SYMBOL In this workshop we will read a poem aloud & explore its non-semantic attributes to glean elements that resonate in order to write poems in response or simply to appreciate it. Too often in poetry, readers are focused solely on semantic surface meaning rather than considering other elements that make up a poem’s music, and mood. Let’s see what happens when we focus on sound, shape (including line break, punctuation, line length), symbol (including imagery, free association with Jungian archetypes, mythology). Each participant will write something (a line, a poem, an image) inspired by the source poem and will share the results with the group.

Poet,  publisher, fiction writer, Amanda Earl is the managing editor of Bywords.ca , and the fallen angel of AngelHousePress. Her books include Kiki (Chaudiere Books, 2014); A World of Yes (DevilHouse, 2015);  and Coming Together Presents Amanda Earl (Coming Together, 2014). She was inducted into the VERSeOttawa Hall of Honour in 2014, and two of her manuscripts have been shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Innovative Poetry Award. Her most recent chapbooks are Queen Christina (Ghost City Press, 2016) and firstwalks of the year (In/Words Press, 2016). Amanda is the editor of the AngelHousePress Close Reading Service for New Women Poets. For more information about the service, please visit AngelHousePress.com . For more information about Amanda, please go to AmandaEarl.com and follow her on Twitter @KikiFolle.

http://www.treereadingseries.ca/workshops

followed by the first Tree Reading of the season with an open mic and featured readers: Margaret Christakos and Jessica Moore.