rob mclennan continues the conversation of
contemporary poetics in this latest series of notes on Canadian poetry
published in the Australian on line magazine, Jacket2. I am fortunate to be
included in the series with his notes on several of my poetry projects, including
my current work-in-progress, Saint Ursula’s Commonplace Book. Note that I will
be reading from the work on February 7 at the
Factory Reading Series, February 18 at the Sawdust Reading Series and in
March at VERSeFest, where I will
also read from Kiki. I will do my best
to read from different sections of these works so that those of you who are
good enough to attend multiple readings won’t be bored.
I am grateful to the City of Ottawa for the funding
I have received for Saint Ursula’s Commonplace Books, Kiki and Ghazals Against
the Gradual Demise. Thanks also to the Ontario Arts Council, which also funded
the latter two manuscripts while they were in development.
Here are rob’s Jacket2 notes so far from
latest to earliest:
- Amanda Earl: Excerpts from Saint Ursula’s
Commonplace Book
- A short
interview with Armand Garnet Ruffo
- David
McGimpsey: Three new poems
- The
Canadian prose poem : Notes toward an essay I haven’t quite written
-
Annharte’s AKA Inendagosekwe
- A short
interview with Nikki Reimer
-
jwcurry's archive
- Roland
Prevost: two new poems
- Pearl
Pirie: two new poems
- Chris
Turnbull's endless directions
- Gil
McElroy's cartography
-
Selecting Phil Hall
thanks to rob for all he does and for including me
once again.
for those of you who haven’t heard of Jacket2, I highly recommend it as a resource on modern
poetry and poetics. it includes interviews, articles, panel discussions,
podcasts and more. For example, take a read of this interesting panel
discussion of poetry as music led by Anselm Berrigan or this article on the new face of Chinese
poetry.
