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Here they come — the poets in the bright pink ambulance

The CBC website has an item on a most unusual poetry tour organized by Tate Young, an Edmonton-based Book TV producer and poet (who released a collection this year under the nom de plume Mingus ... Read More »

October 4, 2004 | Filed under: Book news

Canada needs more of the world

By Leigh Anne Williams

Maisonneuve columnist Zach Wells has weighed in further on the absence of foreign voices on our domestic poetry lists. "In a previous column, I lamented Canada's piss-poor record of publishing foreign poetry written in English," ... Read More »

July 26, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

A working class hero is something to be

By Leigh Anne Williams

Maisonneuve poetry columnist Zachariah Wells takes a look at some of Canada's blue-collar poetry in his latest online column. Among those surveyed are Peter Trower ("one of our most potent poets still writing"), Peter Richardson, ... Read More »

June 15, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

It's Griffin week in the media

By Leigh Anne Williams

Griffin glory is the subject of media coverage this week, with the winners of the annual poetry prize set to be named on Thursday.Globe and Mail reporter Rebecca Caldwell interviewed this year's jury on the ... Read More »

May 31, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Funnyman speaks

By Leigh Anne Williams

Poet Stuart Ross is interviewed on the online litmag The Danforth Review. Ross, who published Hey, Crumbling Balcony! Poems New & Selected last year, talks about selling leaflets and chapbooks on the streets of Toronto, ... Read More »

May 10, 2004 | Filed under: Events

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Here they come — the poets in the bright pink ambulance

Canada needs more of the world

A working class hero is something to be

It's Griffin week in the media

Funnyman speaks

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