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;