a display of titles by Joe Blades at UNB Fredericton,

Given that he was an instructor in the Maritime Writers' Workshop, the university bookstore at UNB Fredericton requested copies of Joe Blades' Casemate Poems (Collected) and Prison Songs and Storefront Poetry for an in-store display. The books and display will be there at least a month. If you're in the area, isn't this the best time to swing by and pick up a copy or two?

Pearl Pirie becomes a host of CKCU Literary Landscapes, starting tonight!

Tune in at 6:30 EST tonight, online at www.ckcufm.com or 93.1 in Ottawa for the transition show! Tonight, the inimitable Christine McNair hosts her final show as a host for the weekly Literary Landscapes, and Pearl Pirie joins her to begin her duties as replacement. McNair has been hosting the program for the past four years, and has been one of a cycle of four hosts, including David Currie, Kathryn Hunt and Neil Wilson.

a photo of Chaudiere author Pearl Pirie behind Margaret Atwood in Regina's Metronews.ca

Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie (far left) was photographed recently behind Toronto author Margaret Atwood at an event they were at together in Regina, Saskatchewan. See the full article in Regina's Metronews.ca here.

Glad Day: an interview with Marcus McCann,

Andrew Faulkner interviews Chaudiere Books author Marcus McCann over at Open Book: Toronto on poetry, community and Glad Day Bookshop.

Chaudiere Books at the ottawa small press book fair, June 15, 2013;

We will again be participating in the semi-annual ottawa small press book fair at Jack Purcell Community Cenntre, Saturday June 15, 2013, from noon to 5pm. Might we see you there?

rob mclennan reads on the main stage at Ottawa's WESTFEST, June 7 2013

Ottawa's free festival in Westboro is now ten years old, and rob mclennan reads as part of WESTFEST's main stage, alongside Holly McNarland and Elliot Brood, on Friday, June 7, 2013. His set begins precisely at 9:20pm.

Pearl Pirie reads at the Vertigo Reading Series, Regina, June 24, 2013

Mon. June 24, 2013, 6:30pm doors, 7:30pm
Vertigo Reading Series

Vertigo meets at Crave Kitchen and Wine Bar, 1925 Victoria Avenue, Regina, Saskatchewan

For more updates on Pearl's readings, check here.

a new essay by Anita Dolman, "A little less inspiration, please (Or, Whatever happened to patrons, anyway?)

Anita Dolman, contributor to Decalogue: Ten Ottawa Poets (Chaudiere Books, 2006) has a new essay, "A little less inspiration, please (Or, Whatever happened to patrons, anyway?)" now up at the ottawa poetry newsletter.

a new essay by Pearl Pirie, "What is Being Said," is now online

Pearl Pirie has posted an impressive new essay, "What is Being Said," on her blog. Worth checking out.

Joe Blades named NB Film Co-op Artist of the Week;

Chaudiere Books author Joe Blades was named NB Film Co-op Artist of the Week, which included a nice write-up on their website, here.

We Need Some F*cking Magic, People! ~ John-James Ford: Elephant Journal

John-James Ford, one of the ten contributors to Decalogue 2: ten Ottawa fiction writers (2008), has a new piece, "We Need Some F*cking Magic, People!," now online at Elephant Journal.

Author Notes: Marcus McCann, at the Town Crier,

Chaudiere Books author Marcus McCann discusses his poem "Cover Letter," hyperbole, Jeanette Lynes and David McGimpsey over at the Town Crier, the blog of The Puritan.

Marcus McCann : dusie Tuesday Poem #3

Marcus McCann's "from Winter of Weak Welcome" was posted today as the third in dusie's Tuesday Poem series.

The League of Canadian Poets' National Poetry Month blog: Joe Blades + rob mclennan,

Chaudiere Books authors Joe Blades ("staircase poem 30") and rob mclennan ("Conditions of the shudder") both have new poems up at The League of Canadian Poets' 2013 National Poetry Month blog. Enjoy!

a new Pearl Pirie poem up on Stuart Ross' the week shall inherit the verse,

Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie has a new poem, "WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS," up at Stuart Ross' weekly poetry blog, "the week shall inherit the verse."

literary press group: remembering john newlove

The Literary Press Group posted part of a lecture by John Newlove, along with "God Bless the Bear," a poem from A Long Continual Argument (Chaudiere Books) as day nine of their "30-day coast-to-coast poetry project." 

As they write: 

Canadian lyric poet John Newlove (1938–2003) has been called a "powerfully influential presence" in the Canadian poetry scene, and is respected for the "scrupulous honestly of his bare-bones poetics." And although Newlove lived in BC and Ontario for much of his life, he was always considered a Saskatchewan poet.

A Long Continual Argument: the Selected Poems of John Newlove was published by Chaudiere Books in 2008, five years after Newlove's death. Steve Noyes says that the collection is "probably the best summation of John Newlove’s inimitable poems that we are likely to get."

This hefty book of poems spans Newlove's career: 256 pages contain all the poems Newlove self-selected for a previous edition of selected poems, his later poetry, critically acclaimed works, and many of the cynically lyric poems that established his early reputation as a "black romantic." Scroll down to read an excerpt from a talk he gave in 1988.

12 or 20 Questions in Film: with Jennifer Mulligan

Jennifer Mulligan answers her own questions over on her "12 or 20 Questions in Film" blog.

Tour de blogosphere: Pearl Pirie, Ottawa’s blogger extraordinaire

Apartment 613 does an article on Chaudiere Books author Pearl Pirie's many, many blogs.

Garth Martens on John Newlove, The 49th Shelf

It might have taken a while, but Pearl Pirie was good enough to point out this post on The 49th Shelf by Garth Martens, the 2010 Bronwen Wallace Award Winner, where he includes our John Newlove title on a Recommended Reading List [see the full list here]. He writes:

A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove: Newlove's voice is uncommon, his use of the conversational phrase anything but slovenly: “You may allow me moments, / not monuments, I being / content. It is little, / but it is little enough.” These poems are marbled with failure, revelry, weariness, love, the usual catch-all descriptors, sure. Newlove's intelligence, his agility of voice, command the best from these subjects. I particularly admire “Public Library” and “Company,” poems where we observe men at their lowest, rank with self loathing, alcoholic blurriness, and depressive wandering: “It loves company and company is disgusted by it; / company enjoys being disgusted by it; / it enjoys disgusting company.”

Pearl Pirie has a new essay online in the 6th issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics,

Pearl Pirie's essay, "Safety, Risk and the Brain in Poetry and Publishing," originally presented at a fundraiser for VERSeFest in November 2012 (alongside Cameron Anstee (his piece is in the same issue) and Stephen Brockwell), is now online in the sixth issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics.