new interview with Marcus McCann at MyGSA.ca

An interview with Marcus McCann as "Aquarium's feature Queer writer" at MyGSA.ca

Monty Reid reads Sunday, September 25 at Sasquatch (Ottawa)

Ottawa poet and musician Monty Reid reads as the feature at Sunday's Sasquatch Reading Series.
2-5pm, Royal Oak Pub, 161 Laurier Avenue (basement)
Open set + featured reader(s).

Pearl Pirie reads in France, Sept 20, 2011;

to launch her new chapbook with Corrupt Press;

Chaudiere Books has moved!

please address all mailings, cheques, requests and communications, effective immediately, to:



Chaudiere Books
402 McLeod Street #3
Ottawa ON Canada
K2P 1A6

Pearl Pirie responds to a Gregory Betts essay;

On her blog, Pearl Pirie responds to (among other things) an essay by Gregory Betts, recently posted in the third issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry + poetics.

Monty Reid (workshop + reading) with George Amabile at the TREE Reading Series, Ottawa, October 11, 2011

George Amabile + Monty Reid
Tuesday October 11
Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa

6:45pm Free Workshop
Monty Reid on You Are Here

In this series of 4 workshops, we will explore the spaces in and around Arts Court, the end result being a collaborative digital map with poems.

8:00pm Readings
Dead Poet Reading, Open Mic and Featured Reader(s).

George Amabile
Published in over 100 anthologies, magazines and journals, George Amabile is also the author of 7 books.

Monty Reid
Monty Reid's Disappointment Island won the Lampman-Scott Award for poetry, and he is also a 3-time winner of Alberta’s Stephansson Award for Poetry.

Chaudiere Books author Marcus McCann reads at Toronto's Pivot Reading Series with Richard Krueger + Ralph Kolewe, Sept. 21, 2011

The Pivot train has started, and there’s no getting off, Toronto. Join us on September 21 for readings from three fantastic man-poets, Ralph Kolewe, Richard Krueger, and Marcus McCann. As always, at the Press Club, and as always, doors are at 8. Your gracious host is Elisabeth de Mariaffi.

Pivot Readings at the Press Club
Featuring Ralph Kolewe, Richard Krueger, and Marcus McCann

Wednesday, September 21
The Press Club
850 Dundas Street West, Toronto
8 PM
PWYC 

Ralph Kolewe lives in Toronto. He is co-editor of InfluencySalon.ca, the online iteration of Influency: A Toronto Literary Salon. He makes his living as a software engineer. He takes photographs, which have been shown in various venues (you can see some of them online here), and has recently begun to admit that he also writes poems (some of which you can read here).

Richard Krueger grew up in Prince George, British Columbia, where he eventually received his Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Northern British Columbia in 1999. He was winner of the inaugural Barry McKinnon Chapbook Prize in 2006. The Monotony of Fatal Accidents, released this fall with BookThug, is his first book of poetry, though many of the poems that comprise it previously appeared in chapbook form.

Marcus McCann is a poet and journalist, the author of Soft Where and eight chapbooks, most recently The Glass Jaw and Town in a Long  Day of Leaving. In Ottawa, he was the artistic director of the Transgress festival, facilitator of the Naughty Thoughts Book Club and a host of CKCU’s Literary Landscapes. He was the managing editor of Xtra in Toronto and Ottawa until this summer; this month [September], he started law school at U of T. His next full length collection, The Hard Return, will be released in April with Insomniac.

--
Pivot Readings at the Press Club
pivotreadings.ca
@PivotReadings

Every other Wednesday at the Press Club in Toronto, we present the writers breathing life into Canadian literary culture. Established and emerging, time-tested and fresh; we're what's happening in literature, right now. Your hosts are Elisabeth de Mariaffi and Sachiko Murakami.

a new interview with Pearl Pirie, by Sean Moreland

is now on-line, as part of the third issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry + poetics, edited by rob mclennan.

Chaudiere Books' "Decalogue" moving sale!

To celebrate our recent move, and to make space for upcoming new titles, we're moving both of our Decalogue titles for half-price until the end of September: $10 instead of the retail $20.

The "Decalogue" series was built as a series of ongoing conversations, featuring ten Ottawa writers per volume, and Ottawa-specific artwork by a local artist on each cover.

Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets
edited by rob mclennan; with Stephen Brockwell, Michelle Desbarats, Anita Dolman, Anne Le Dressay, Karen Massey, Una McDonnell, rob mclennan, Max Middle, Monty Reid and Shane Rhodes.
for more information on the book and/or authors, check the link here.
$10

Decalogue 2: ten Ottawa fiction writers
edited by rob mclennan; with Emily Falvey, Matthew Firth, Gabriella Goliger, Alison Gresik, John-James Ford, Clare Latremouille, John Lavery, Nadine McInnis, rob mclennan and Ian Roy.
for more information on the book and/or authors, check the link here.
$10

For orders, add $5 for mailing. Paypal available via www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
or send cheques payable to rob mclennan, c/o 402 McLeod Street, #3, Ottawa ON K2P 1A6

new Pearl Pirie chapbook by Corrupt Press, France!

Chaudiere author Pearl Pirie has gone across the ocean to launch her newest chapbook, Mammals of Hoarfrost, now available from French publisher Corrupt Press. As well, be sure to catch her "call and response" poems up at SPAO's Red Wall Gallery, 168 Dalhousie Street, Ottawa, until September 22.

Poem by Joe Blades up on Liptstick Press' Poems for Jack Layton‏

a new poem, "just jack" by Chaudiere Books author Joe Blades, now online at the Lipstick Press blog as part of an ongoing series on/for the late Jack Layton.

Ottawa's Robert Kroetsch shortlist -- Pirie, McNair + Ridley/Earl - at the TREE Reading Series

The four Ottawa-based authors of the three (including the winner) of the nine titles shortlisted for this past year's Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Writing read as part of the next edition of The TREE Reading Series. Tuesday, August 23, 8pm at the Arts Court feature Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie (who won this year, with her award-winning manuscript appearing any minute now with Snare), Christine McNair (whose shortlisted title is forthcoming with BookThug in spring 2012) and collaborators Sandra Ridley and Amanda Earl.

Amanda Earl on Pearl Pirie's "call and response"

Amanda Earl's report on Leslie Hossack's photography exhibit "Cities of Stone, People of Dust" and Pearl Pirie's poems in response.

Monty Reid participates in Wakefield, Quebec's Wakefest 2011

On Sunday, August 28, Ottawa poet Monty Reid will be reading as part of Wakefield, Quebec's Wakefest, in the "Plan 99 North Reading Series" at The Kaffé 1870 Pub, alongside Gil Adamson and Bruce Taylor, with another reading held the previous day featuring Pasha Malla, Iain Reid and Kevin Connolly. The readings each day run from 2:30pm to 4:00pm. For further information, check out the article in The Ottawa Citizen, or the Wakefest homepage.

Michael Bryson's short story collection playlist, by Dani Couture

is now up on Dani Couture's blog.

Whether I write with the music on or the music off, there’s always a tune in my head. Often the song in my head will tell me what I’m thinking. I’ll find myself repeating “A Day in the Life” by The Beatles, for instance, and only then realize that I’ve been reflecting on a particular headline that I read on the way in to work: “I’ve read the news today, oh, boy.” My subconscious seems to transport messages to me through music. Of course, I also have an affinity to certain lyrics, certain phrases, certain rhetorical approaches: “Poets, priests, and politicians/ have words to thank for their positions,” sang The Police. That’s one of my favourite lyrics; it’s clear about the lack of clarity that can be provided by language (“Who’s Zoomin’ Who?” as Aretha Franklin said). You can see this theme in many of the songs on my list. Also, I dig the 2/4 beat, so the first song on the list was a natural. It’s very hard for me to select a 15 song list, so I’ve cheated a bit. As Janis Joplin said, “I’m ready, man!”

new Pearl Pirie poems as part of SPAO's Call and Response

CALL AND RESPONSE

Poetic responses to photographs in the Red Wall Gallery.
at the School of Photographic Arts: Ottawa
Curated by: rob mclennan

Ongoing: August 5th, 2011 to July 31st, 2012

First Response
The Walls of Jerusalem; selected poems and process notes.
Writer: Pearl Pirie
Exhibition: Cities of Stone - People of Dust by Leslie Hossack
Vernissage: Friday August 5th, 2011, 18:00 - 21:00
On View: August 5th - September 2nd, 2011

The CALL AND RESPONSE project engages two creative communities in a year-long exchange of images and words. Artists showing work in the Red Wall Gallery will have their photographic statements poetically responded to by writers curated by rob mclennan.

This interaction can be experienced as poetry and images come together in the Red Wall Gallery for the duration of each exhibition. There will also be scheduled readings, and a poem/image card for each pairing, as well as the inclusion of selected images and poems in the next edition of Push/Pull magazine.

The Red Wall Gallery is located in SPAO at 168 Dalhousie, at the corner of Bruyère, in the Byward Market. Viewing/reading hours are from Monday to Friday 10:00 -18:00, and Saturdays from 10:00-15:00.

Future shows will have responses by Ottawa poets Monty Reid and Sandra Ridley.

For more info contact: 613.562.3824 or info@spao.ca

Sontag & Kael: Criticism is demolition? an essay by Michael Bryson

[photo by Kate O'Rourke] posted at Numero Cinq.

article on Marcus McCann in Northumberland Today for tonight's reading in Cobourg ON

Boundary-pushing poet reads in Cobourg tonight
Posted July 21, 2011
COBOURG -"In my work, I like that people point out its playfulness. It is funny. It is subversive," says Ottawa poet Marcus McCann.

"When I'm writing, I'm always dancing this dance with my inner-critic, saying, 'Can I get away with this? What if I push it a little further?'"

The results of McCann's attempts can be heard at the Cobourg Poetry Workshop's 3rd Thursday Reading Series this evening at Meet At 66 King East. Since leaving university five years ago, McCann has been managing editor of Ottawa's Capital Xtra, the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender newspaper, a job he is leaving "to move on; to go back to school."

Author of Soft Where, McCann has been described as a poetic gymnast, to which he replies, "Serious gymnasts aren't at play at all. It's punishing work, right? Poetry is fun, but that doesn't mean it's not also hard work."

One critic said of McCann's work, "I love the leaps and jumps of his writing. I love the way the language flies."

Readings are a way to share new work, McCann says.

"I was once told that they should be, in a way, a 'best of' selection. They are also a way to share new work, stuff you're excited about."

McCann has been working against what he calls "the Canadian Rural Gothic" -- poems about nature, farming.

"The poems I'm most likely to read are urban, infused with technology, frank about sexuality and drug use," he says.

"But I'm not trying to be confrontational in my reading, and am willing to meet people half-way."

Also reading this evening will be Cobourg's highly regarded poet Wayne Schlepp and, making his first appearance at the 3rd Thursday Reading Series, Peterborough poet Stephen Kennedy.

Doors open at 7 p.m. with the readings commencing at 7:30. Go to www.poetrycobourg.ca for further details.

Michael Bryson reading on YouTube, from The TREE Reading Series,

Michael Bryson's featured reading at The TREE Reading Series, November 24, 2009, is now posted on YouTube.

Monty Reid, Pearl Pirie, rob mclennan, etc. now up at Sachiko Murakami's Project Rebuild

New, renovated poems by Chaudiere authors Monty Reid, Pearl Pirie and rob mclennan now up at Sachiko Murakami's Project Rebuild, alongside plenty of others, by nikki reimer, Rita Wong, Jason Christie, Christine McNair, Amanda Earl, Meredith Quartermain, David McGimpsey, Jacqueline Turner, Gary Barwin, a. rawlings, Justin Million, Roger Farr, Soma Feldmar, Angela Hibbs, Larissa Lai and plenty of others. Check regularly for updates, or, participate yourself!

Joe Blades explains his title: Casemate Poems (Collected)

Chaudiere Books author Joe Blades explains the title of his latest poetry collection, Casemate Poems (Collected).

a review mentioning some of Pearl Pirie's non-Chaudiere works,

a brief review of some recent of her works, including her Obvious Epiphanies chapbook, and The Dusty Owl Quarterly, here;

Pearl Pirie's (etc) random acts of poetry; a report by Kathryn Hunt;

Pearl Pirie [photo credit: Brian Pirie] & others' random acts of poetry; a report by Kathryn Hunt.

new from chaudiere books: Joe Blades' Casemate Poems (Collected)

Casemate Poems (Collected)
by Joe Blades

published by Chaudiere Books
May 2011

An earlier, much smaller edition appeared as a limited-edition book produced by Waterloo, Ontario publisher Widows and orphans in 2004 as casemate poems, later translated and published in Belgrade. As Blades himself wrote of that earlier edition:

The two suites of “casemate poems” were written during two one-week artist-in-residence stints in 2003 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. These were public, interactive, residencies with visitors passing though the casemate workspace with two concurrent artists-in-residence scheduled for any given week. During his residency, Blades had a typewriter set up on a table facing the open doorway of the casemate. It was always primed with a sheet of paper. In the tradition of writers in storefronts, as Blades finished composing each poem, it was attached to the casemate wall. Blades also took photographs inside and from within the casemate looking outward: images of the casemate itself, of his art in progress, photographs of the weaving looms, of the potter and pottery turned.

In this volume, Blades’ poems and photographs are combined to produce a work that reflects the immediacy of their composition while enabling the reader to experience Blades' writing at their own pace.

From: Pesme iz kazamata (Beograd: Rad, 2005)

To read Canadian poet and artist Joe Blades’ book of poetry casemate poems means to get knowledge about one very specific way of understanding poetry today. […] Blades’ poetry is written by activating different layers of human knowledge and by articulation of this knowledge, for example, in narrations of history and geography. He moves in time (historical perspective) and in space (for example, actual events in the world at the time, such as the attack on the World Trade Center, or pointing to the contemporary racist attitudes of specific countercultures.

—Dubravka Đurić
(translated from the Serbian by Dubravka Đurić.)

author bio:
Joe Blades has been giving readings, performing and publishing his poetry since 1980.

Blades was born and raised in Nova Scotia. He's a graduate of NSCAD (BFA (Studio Major: Intermedia), 1988), and he recently completed a Film & Television Certificate Program through the NB Filmmakers' Cooperative. He is also an alumni of the Banff Centre, Maritime Writers Workshop, Sage Hill Writing Experience, and the Simon Fraser University Book Publishing Immersion Workshop.

His poetry and art have appeared in over 50 trade and chapbook anthologies and CDs, and in numerous periodicals. Blades has authored or edited 30 poetry chapbooks and limited edition artist books. His five full-length poetry books are Cover Makes a Set (SpareTime Editions, 1990), River Suite (Insomniac Press, 1998), Open Road West (Broken Jaw Press, 2000, 2001) and Casemate Poems (Widows & Orphans, 2004). Serbian translations of River Suite as Recna svita in the Slike iz kanade: Tri kanadska pesnika (SKC Nis), and Casemate Poems as Pesme iz kazamata (i.p. Rad), were published in 2005.

various upcoming Joe Blades readings/lectures/residencies:
 
June 1, 7:30 pm: Joe Blades reads at Literary Translators' Association of Canada members &
friends. Congress 2011. Alden Nowlan House/Windsor Castle Bar, 676 Windsor St, Fredericton, NB.
 
June, 3-4:15 pm. Panel/paper presentation. Poetry of Place: The Confluence of Coasts, Continents and Consciousness by Jennifer Pazienza & Joe Blades. Congress 2011. Rm 210, Marshall d’Avray Hall, Room/Salle 210, UNB Fredericton, Fredericton, NB.

June 9-20: Toronto, Brno, Berlin (unfortunately no scheduled readings, as yet)
  
July 9-15: Fredericton Arts Alliance Artists in Residence 2011 Summer Series, at the Barracks Fine Craft Shops, Queen St, Fredericton, NB. A week-long residency. Joe Blades, writer/book artist, paired with Leigh Merritt, emerging potter. Will include reading(s).
  
October 1: Joe Blades and Broken Jaw Press at Feria Latinoamericana de Libros y Revistas/Latinamerican Fair of Books and Journals. Ottawa, ON. Para más información o registrarse enviar un correo electrónico a info@artemapale.com o llamar al 613-828-8151.

check here for updates from the author.


$18.00 CAN/$18.00 US
isbn 978-097834281-4
available to bookstores through LitDisCo
or directly through the publisher at rob_mclennan@hotmail.com

or send $20 (payable to rob mclennan; outside Canada, $20 US) directly to the press at:
Chaudiere Books
858 Somerset Street West, main floor
Ottawa ON Canada K1R 6R7


check out the link here at chaudierebooks.com

3 Chaudiere poets at mother tongue books (Ottawa),

Thursday, June 16, 2011;
1067 Bank Street (at Sunnyside)
doors 7pm, reading 7:30
lovingly hosted by Christine McNair

author bios:

Monty Reid is an Ottawa writer and gardener, with recent trade collections from Chaudiere Books and Brick Books.  His most recent publications are Site Conditions (Apt 9 Press) and Garden unit chapbooks from obvious epiphanies press, above/ground press, Laurel ReedBooks and others. 

Pearl Pirie rides trains when she can. Watch for her books, chapbooks and leaflets at the Ottawa small press fair.

rob mclennan is the author of many things. His most recent book is the long poem Glengarry (Talonbooks).

Amanda Earl on Pearl Pirie (from her recent Sasquatch Reading Series appearance);

Ottawa poet/publisher/blogger Amanda Earl's report on Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie's recent reading at the Sasquatch Reading Series.

Chaudiere Books participating in Niagara Falls, Toronto + Ottawa small press fairs;

Chaudiere Books will be participating in small press book fairs (with perhaps a new surprise or two) in:

Niagara Falls, ON: A Book Affair, Saturday, June 4th, 2011, hosted by The Niagara Literary Arts Festival. information here.

Toronto ON: The Toronto Small Press Book Fair, Sunday, June 19,2011. information here.

Ottawa ON: the ottawa small press book fair, Saturday, June 25, 2011, hosted by the small press action network - ottawa (span-o). information here.

for further information on small press book fairs across Canada, check out the small press book fair blog.

hopefully we will see you at one, if not all of these! best,

Marcus McCann interviewed by Kevin Spenst;

an interview with Marcus McCann now up on Kevin Spenst's website, alongside various other Chaudiere & non-Chaudiere authors; thanks, Kevin!

Chaudiere authors Monty Reid + rob mclennan read at The Niagara Literary Arts Festival, June 3, 2011;

Friday, June, 3, 2011 7pm; This event is part of THE NIAGARA LITERARY ARTS FESTIVAL; http://www.greyborders.jigsy.com/the-niagara-literary-arts-festival • rob mclennan (The Ottawa City Project)• Monty Reid (Disappointment Island)• Kees Kaptyn • James Takeo • Sami’s , 87 East Main Street, Welland with a small press book fair happening the following day: http://smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2011/05/niagara-literary-arts-festival-presents.html

Chaudiere Books mourns Gatineau author John Lavery (Dec 31, 1949-May 8, 2011);

[John Lavery, left, with Stephen Brockwell; a group of us having drinks at The Carleton Tavern last year, for no reason] an obit posted today here, on rob mclennan's blog;

Monty Reid on Poemaday, 9;

posted here;

Monty Reid a poetry finalist for National Magazine Awards;

Chaudiere Books author Monty Reid (Disappointment Island / Decalogue: Ten Ottawa Poets) is a poetry finalist for the National Magazine Awards for three poems published in Event magazine, alongside eight other poets including Ottawa poets Shane Rhodes (Decalogue: Ten Ottawa Poets) and David O'Meara. Congrats Monty! Congratulations all! The Gold, Silver and Honourable Mentions will be announced in Toronto on June 10, 2011 at a big gala (of course). Tickets for said gala can be purchased here.

Pearl Pirie: two poems posted for National Poetry Month;

Our Pearl Pirie [photo by rob mclennan] has two new poems posted for National Poetry Month, with a visual piece posted at Amanda Earl's AngelHousePress National Poetry Month page, and her poem "Sandwiched," up at a similar site hosted by The League of Canadian Poets, lovingly curated by Winnipeg poet Ariel Gordon.

A little tiny interview with Monty Reid

a little tiny interview with Chaudiere Books author Monty Reid by Kevin Spenst. Check out the entire (ongoing) series, which focuses on Spenst's Vancouver, but with plenty of interesting Ottawa content, including Christine McNair, Pearl Pirie + rob mclennan.

Brockton Writers: article on Marcus McCann

An article on Marcus McCann following his reading through the Brockton Writers Series, by Timothy Connors.

Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie at the Ottawa Festival, May 1, 2011

Pearl Pirie reads alongside Gillian Sze and Lorna Crozier at the spring edition of the Ottawa International Writers Festival; the poetry cabaret is hosted by Ottawa poet Sandra Ridley; details at the festival website, here.

rob mclennan's The Ottawa City Project (2007); "an old poem embedded in thoughts on my mother"

A piece I wrote on one of the poems from my poetry collection, The Ottawa City Project (Chaudiere Books, 2007) now up at Open Book Toronto;

Chaudiere Books at VERSeFest

with my full report, here;

Pearl Pirie interviewed

by Vancouver's Kevin Spenst on editing;

Marcus McCann interviewed (posted online) on CKCU's Literary Landscapes;

Chaudiere Books author Marcus McCann was interviewed on CKCU's Literary Landscapes yesterday (posted online) by Christine McNair for tonight's McCann/Reid lecture as part of Ottawa's VERSeFest;

Pearl Pirie wins 2011 Robert Kroetsch Award!

details here; congratulations Pearl!

Pearl Pirie shortlisted for the 2011 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry

Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie is shortlisted (1 of 9) for the 2011 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry; winner to be announced soon at www.snarebooks.wordpress.com;

Niagara, a new short story by Michael Bryson

is now online at Numero Cinq; author photo by Kate O'Rourke,

How Poems Work: Jesse Patrick Ferguson on John Newlove's "God Bless the Bear"

is now up on the Arc Poetry Magazine website;

Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie interviewed in ottawater #7

by Kemptville poet Chris Turnbull; http://www.ottawater.com/

little tiny review of Pearl Pirie's been shed bore,

"The mysterious financial and postal divides were crossed, and I got Pearl Pirie's "Been Shed Bore" from Ottawa.The promos are packed with some very complex tropes and ricochets somewhat like post-av, but inside I found some highly refined linguistic acrobatics, riffing, and lang-flirt as in "just kiss me then":
"...
a tangle, a lip of the tongue,
some flaw in the ointment
the flu in the augment? more/less
the fly in the argyleness,
the flay in the target, bite some
sorry for that sleep of the tonne
..."
Maybe it was the dire week, but the
clever little 10-20 line engines
of brilliant sass hit the spot this weekend."


the rest of his post here; thanks!

Two upcoming Marcus McCann readings, Cobourg + Toronto;

Ottawa/Toronto poet Marcus McCann has two upcoming events:

* Brockton Writers Series (April 6, 7pm. St Anne's Church, 270 Gladstone Ave. Toronto. Free/PWYC.

* Cobourg Poetry Workshop, with Glenda Jackson and Wayne Schlepp, July 21, 2011. Doors at 7:00 pm. Reading at 7:30pm. 66 King St E, Cobourg, ON.

photo credit: Michael Erickson,

Chaudiere author Anita Dolman at The Dusty Owl Reading Series, Jan 16;

Ottawa writer Anita Dolman (featured in Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets) is featured at the Dusty Owl Reading Series, Sunday January 16, 5pm; open set and featured reader; see her "12 or 20 questions" here;

Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie at the Pivot Reading Series, Toronto

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

8pm-10pm

The Press Club, 850 Dundas Street West, Toronto

The Pivot with Ottawa’s own Pearl Pirie, reading from Been Shed Bore (Chaudiere Books) alongside Carolyn Smart + Adam Seelig; admission free, three featured readers every second Wednesday;

http://www.beenshedbore.com/readings.html
http://www.chaudierebooks.com/books/beenshedbore.html
http://www.pivotreadings.wordpress.com/

2 new Pearl Pirie / been shed bore mentions

including a review by Sandra Stephenson, and a recommendation by Sandra Ridley on the Advent Books Blog.

Amanda Earl on Pearl Pirie

Amanda Earl on Pearl Pirie's been shed bore;

first review of Pearl Pirie's been shed bore

now up at the Ottawa X-Press; and an interview with rob mclennan on the Grey Borders Reading Series blog, anticipating their upcoming reading in St. Catharine's, Ontario.

Chaudiere launch; Pearl Pirie's been shed bore, November 7 at Dusty Owl

Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie launches her first poetry collection, been shed bore (Chaudiere Books) at the Dusty Owl Reading Series, Sunday, November 7 at 5pm;

Information now lives on the Chaudiere website here; Pearl's own website for such here.

three poems by Pearl Pirie

in This magazine;

Pearl Pirie + rob mclennan read with Gregory Betts + James Milhaven in St. Catharines

The Grey Borders Reading Series Presents...

rob mclennan

Pearl Pirie

Gregory Betts

+ James Milhaven

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 7:30pm

The Niagara Artists’ Centre 

354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines 

905.641.0331  

 

Licensed, pay what you can

http://greyborders.blogspot.com 

 

Pearl Pirie's forthcoming trade collection is been shed bore (Chaudiere Books, 2010). www.beenshedbore.com. Her chapbooks include over my dead corpus (AngelHouse, 2010) and boathouse (above/ground, 2008). She blogs at pesbo, Humanyms, and a few other places. Poems have appeared thru dandelion, ditch, PRECIPICe, 1cent, Ottawater, unarmed, Peter F Yacht Club, Dusie and 17 Seconds, pooka press and gar.  She writes in Ottawa and lives in her head (with outings for chocolate).

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of some twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections gifts (Talonbooks), a compact of words (Salmon Poetry, Ireland), wild horses (University of Alberta Press) and a second novel, missing persons (The Mercury Press). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (www.ottawater.com/seventeenseconds), The Garneau Review (www.ottawater.com/garneaureview) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (www.ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com.

Gregory Betts is a poet, editor, essayist, and teacher born in Vancouver, raised in Toronto, now living in St. Catharines, ON. He is the author of four books of poetry including If Language (BookThug 2005), Haikube (BookThug 2006), The Others Raisd in Me (Pedlar Press 2009), and Psychic Geographies and Other Topics (Quattro Press 2010; also as ane-book) as well as several chapbooks and various bits of ephemera.

James Millhaven was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, in 1987. His first chapbook, Edges, was released by Grey Borders Books in July 2010. He is currently working on his second chapbook and a one-act play. He would generally include a witty (or at least half-witty) remark at the end, but this was written at the last minute. Sorry.

Chaudiere Books author Monty Reid featured at the In/Words Reading Series

In/Words Reading Series: October Edition
Wednesday, October 27
9:00pm - 10:30pm@ The Clock Tower Pub, 575 Bank St. (across from The Works)
open set + featured reader Monty Reid
***Will be asking for $1 donation at the door.***
Bean salad to top readers of the night.
Further info at bywords.ca

Chaudiere Books author Marcus McCann reads at the 2010 John Newlove Poetry Awards

Bywords' 2010 John Newlove Poetry Award Reading at the Ottawa International Writers Festival
Southminister United Church, 15 Aylmer
Monday, October 25, 2010, 6:30 pm- a free event
contact: amanda@bywords.ca

Launch of The Glass Jaw, a poetry chapbook by Marcus McCann, the recipient of the 2009 John Newlove Poetry Award. With readings by this year's honourable mentions and award recipient to be announced at the reading, and music by the Companionship Registry.

The annual John Newlove Poetry award, launched in the fall of 2004, commemorates the honest, poignant and well-written poetry of John Newlove, an Ottawa resident for almost twenty years and poet who died in 2003.

Amanda Earl
Managing Editor
www.bywords.ca

another review of Michael Bryson's The Lizard,

from Matthew Firth's Front & Centre;

Anne Le Dressay reads in Ottawa, November 6 at Bridgehead

You are invited to a poetry reading featuring Anne Le Dressay and Mary Lee Bragg on Saturday, November 6, at 7:00 p.m. at Bridgehead, 1277 Wellington St.

Anne Le Dressay has been publishing poetry since the 1970's. She has published two books, Old Winter (2007) and Sleep Is a Country (1997), as well as two chapbooks, Woman Dreams (1998) and This Body That I Live In (1979). She has worked as a professor of English Literature and creative writing. She now works for the government and is looking forward to retirement.

Mary Lee Bragg has published short stories in Canadian and American literary journals since the early 1990's, and won the Ottawa Citizen short story contest in 1992.  Her novel Shooting Angels was published in 2004.  Since retiring from the federal public service in 2006, she has begun writing poetry --  "now that I have time to concentrate."  She published a chapbook of poetry titled "How Women Work" in 2010.

This is the second in a new monthly series of coffeehouse events called the "SLOWest Coffee House @ Bridgehead." This event is organized by Sustainable Living Ottawa West ("SLOWest") in collaboration with our neighbourhood Bridgehead coffeeshop at 1277 Wellington St., Ottawa (the one just west of Holland Avenue see map here . Admission will be "pay what you can."

SLOWest is a new voluntary organization that describes itself as "A network in the west end of Ottawa discovering ways to live in an environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling way." SLOWest is exploring ways that the community can respond creatively to issues like climate change and "peak oil"; among other things, that means building a sense of neighbourhood and community, and promoting local, low-carbon approaches to daily living. This includes promoting a local arts scene on a human scale.

In a modest way, we’re hoping that the launch of SLOWest’s Bridgehead coffeehouse series (first Saturday of every month) will help our local community rediscover and reinvent the tradition of the coffeehouse as a place of community and connection, and a fertile ground for interesting conversations that matter. The idea is to have a regular, predictable time and place for community members to come together in a relaxed way, be entertained with some music, stories or poetry, and enter into conversations about the things that matter to them.

John Newlove review

in Canadian Literature;

Chaudiere Books at Word on the Street, Toronto!

come visit Chaudiere Books as part of the Literary Press Group table at Toronto's Word on the Street; http://www.thewordonthestreet.ca/wots/toronto

2 pre-been shed bore Pearl Pirie readings;

Anticipation for Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie's November 7th launch at the Dusty Owl Reading Series for her first trade poetry collection been shed bore (Chaudiere Books, 2010) continues.

On Thursday, Sept 16th, Pearl Pirie does a reading from selections from the manuscript at 7 pm for the vernissage at Blink Gallery with theBarely Their art show which is a collaborative poetry totem done by Pirie, Jean Jewer, Lynda Cronin and Maureen Sandrock.

On Saturday, Sept 18th, 2 p.m. outside Blink Gallery, a group reading with people including Pearl Pirie, TA Carter, Claudia Coutu Radmore, Sandra Ridley, Rona Shaffran, Sean Moreland, Margo Gallant, LM Rochefort, Gillian Wallace and Laurie Koensgen.