Search Results by tag: poetry

In praise of Bowering

The Dooney's Café website has posted two selections from a recent Festschrift (or collection of tribute essays) put together for George Bowering. Jamie Reid contributes a poetic meditation about Bowering's well-known love for baseball, while ... Read More »

December 12, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Poetry makes a comeback

By Scott MacDonald

Some interesting news on the poetry-meets-technology front: Lorna MacLaren of the Scottish newspaper The Herald notes a potential increase in the popularity of poetry, especially that of the Romantics, amongst members of the iPod generation. ... Read More »

November 15, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

It's never too late

By Scott MacDonald

At the age of 79, American poet Landis Everson will be publishing his first collection. A recipient of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, an honour that celebrates the achievements of poets over the age ... Read More »

October 19, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Random Acts of Poetry celebrates its second year

By Scott MacDonald

This week, poets in communities across Canada, Britain, and Ireland will take to the street to read their work to people in hair salons, hockey rinks, gas stations, and other everyday places as part of ... Read More »

October 3, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Sonnets, ghazals, and glosas, oh my!

By Leigh Anne Williams

Over on Bookninja.com, there's a lively discussion about the renewal of interest in form among Canadian poets. Contributing to the "essay-in-conversation" are poets Ian LeTourneau and John Lofranco, and their back-and-forth ranges over the work ... Read More »

September 6, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

George Bowering unproductive? Never!

By Leigh Anne Williams

It all began with an Ottawa Sun article in which reporter Kathleen Harris appeared to question the work ethic of George Bowering during his two-year term as Canada's parliamentary poet laureate. "Bowering was paid $12,000 ... Read More »

May 1, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Industry news

The trouble with contests

By Leigh Anne Williams

The unsound ethics of poetry contests is a hot topic in the U.S. these days -- one that Canadian poet and essayist Zach Wells has now tackled on the Bookninja.com site. Wells is not so ... Read More »

March 21, 2005 | Filed under: Authors, Book news, Industry news, Opinion

The new-style book award

By Leigh Anne Williams

Award-watchers love to gripe about the subjectivity and secrecy of jury-panel decisions. But lately a couple of book-related sites have gone one better and tried to create alternatives. Late last year, Ontario's Good Reports site ... Read More »

February 7, 2005 | Filed under: Industry news

Poetry: can you give it away?

By Leigh Anne Williams

In Vancouver's The Tyee, Fiona Lam writes about her part in the Random Acts of Poetry campaign, in which poets in cities across the country approach strangers and offer to read from their work. Unfortunately, ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

More award controversy: jury-nominee connections exposed

By Leigh Anne Williams

There was a lot of attention paid to author André Alexis's decision to step down from the Governor General's fiction jury over a personal conflict (assumed to involve Catherine Bush's novel Claire's Head), but he ... Read More »

November 22, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: poetry

In praise of Bowering

Poetry makes a comeback

It's never too late

Random Acts of Poetry celebrates its second year

Sonnets, ghazals, and glosas, oh my!

George Bowering unproductive? Never!

The trouble with contests

The new-style book award

Poetry: can you give it away?

More award controversy: jury-nominee connections exposed

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