Gregory Betts has just chosen Prose of the Trans Canada as his recommendation of the year for the 2011 Advent Book Blog.
My 2010 publication zimZalla object 005 (available for £2 including postage) — a miniature book which measures 3.5 cm x 5 cm and comes in a handmade fabric bag with a magnifying glass — was recently reviewed by Sabotage: reviews of the ephemeral.
Chris Turnbull, the editor of Rout/e magazine has just included a visual poem of mine as part of a poetic route. Turnbull wrote that my poem was planted “along the Dwyer Hill entrance point to Marlborough Forest.”
My poem “edges the first water section of the trail. It is often near flooded, the left and right sides of the swamp (track bisecting) quite dramatically different. It’s one of the first places the geese return to, and [Turnbull has] sighted blandings turtles (endangered), water snakes, marsh wrens, and muskrat in abundance. And, of course, frogs among other things.”
Better co-ordinates soon, but “if you go to Google Earth, to Dwyer Hill, locate roughly half way between Flood Road and Heaphy Road and head for the chunk of obvious water. The trail is unobservable…”
Jonathan Ball has just offered a capsule review (bottom) of seen of the crime in the Winnipeg Free Press. More information on seen of the crime can be found here.
rob mclennan has just offered a brief review of seen of the crime at his blog. More information on seen of the crime, including ordering information, can be found here.
The selection at UBUWEB: VISUAL POETRY has just grown with the addition of new and historical work by Shaunt Basmajian, Bob Cobbing, Michael Jacobson, Cecilie Jordheim, Louis Luthi, Robert Majzels, Heidi Neilson, Barbara O’Connelly, ottar ormstad, Carl Fredrik Reutersward, Luigi Serafini and Nico Vassilakis. Also included is a brief selection of work by bpNichol, an overview of Martin Vaughn-James’ visual narratives and a 1966 anthology which juxtaposes Marshall McLuhan’s work next to avant-garde practitioners.
As part of my on-going “Abstract Language” column at Abstract Comics: The Blog, in October I discussed Mark Laliberte’s 2010 collection brickbrickbrick. For November, I’ve posted a brief discussion of bpNichol’s Konfessions of an Elizabethan Fan Dancer.
Helen Hajnoczky has just reviewed Seen of the Crime.
Help Celebrate the launch of 2 new books (and 1 slightly older book) from SNARE!
December 9th, 2011 7:30pm
Pages Books on Kensington
1135 Kensington Rd, NW
derek beaulieu, kevin mcpherson eckhoff and Jake Kennedy will be reading from their new Snare books at what promises to be a fun event hosted by the awesome Sandy Pool.
Come! Chat! Listen! Buy Books!
about the books:
DEREK BEAULIEU’S SEEN OF THE CRIME:
In a series of statements, essays, missives and informal discussions, seen of the crime surveys the radical edges of Canadian and international poetry; the conceptual and the concrete, the political and the playful. With seen of the crime, derek beaulieu explores the flourishing and frustrating alternatives: the poetry without subjectivity, without narrative, without words, and even without letters.
KEVIN MCPHERSON ECKHOFF’S EASY PEASY:
Easy Peasy assumes nothing, but ass you me severything! Part instruction manual for the comfortably literate, part picture book for the uncommitted spectator, these poems insist upon the simple beautiful error of words and the imaginative potential of miscommunion! If you enjoy spending time outdoors, eating chocolate bars, watching movies, drinking tea with friends, avoiding death, taking baths and understanding the world, then this book most definitely is not for your!
JAKE KENNEDY’S THE LATERAL:
Winner of the 2010 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry! The Lateral is a highly original and experimental book from a nimble poetic mind. It includes an elegiac found-long-poem that gathers all the “Acker” keyword tags from the Flickr database and reapplies them as words-of-lament for the revolutionary artist-writer Kathy Acker (1947-97), a series of prose-poem-ruminations that contemplate the optimal conditions for the poetry, and a section of poems that can only be described as the vulgar, unkempt cousin of Hugh Prather’s Notes to Myself.
I’m pleased to announce that Prose of the Trans Canada will be included in Language to Cover a Wall: Visual Poetry through its changing Media (Nov 17, 2011 – Feb 18, 2012) at The UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Language to Cover a Wall: Visual Poetry through its changing Media abounds in visual and concrete poetry, in which the visual arrangement of text, images, and symbols combine to create an intended effect. This alternative to standard linear poetry occupies a space between poetry and visual art but some of it — “intermedia” poetry — blurs the distinction between writing, graphic art, video, dance, music, and digital media.
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