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Gerard Beirne
March 5, 2014 3:31 PM
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Gerard Beirne
March 4, 2014 10:16 AM
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Hello All,
Want to listen to me blether on about Cataract City on Irish public radio? Of COURSE you do!
RTE RADIO 1 INTERVIEW
All best, Craig.
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Gerard Beirne
March 3, 2014 9:04 AM
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Michelle Butler Hallett's story "Bush-Hammer Finish," published in The Fiddlehead No. 257 (Autumn 2013), has been selected to be included in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt'sThe Best American Mystery Stories 2014! This will be the 18th edition of the anthology, which last year included Joyce Carol Oates. The book is slated for an October publication and includes the best 20 stories published in North America, selected by guest editor Laura Lippman.
Gerard Beirne, The Fiddlehead's co-fiction editor who selected Butler Hallett's story, had this to say
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Gerard Beirne
February 27, 2014 10:43 AM
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I'm running a 3-hour generative workshop in Saint John, New Brunswick, at the university (where, once, long ago, when I was a pup, I taught philosophy). No doubt, thousands will apply for this rare...
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Gerard Beirne
February 26, 2014 11:24 AM
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[T]his book is no diary. I am under revision but have not grown wiser. And my poems do not build upon each other like coral polyps in a reef. Each of these poems is a separate experience. To force ...
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Gerard Beirne
February 26, 2014 10:47 AM
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In late 1880, Charles G.D. Roberts, future “Father of Canadian Literature,” sent a copy of his first poetry collection to one of the leading U.S. writers of the time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. No...
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Gerard Beirne
February 25, 2014 9:49 AM
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February 23, 2014 2:55 PM
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Well, he keeps sinking to new levels of depravity. And now he's got a pulpit!
NICK CUTTER'S BLOG
Yours in shared sadness,
Craig.
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Gerard Beirne
February 13, 2014 11:38 AM
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This distinguished volume includes contemporary poets Anne Carson, Anne Compton, Lorna Crozier, Mary Dalton, Michael Frazier, M. Travis Lane, Patrick Lane, Jacob McArthur Mooney, Jane Munro, Ruth Roach Pierson, Elizabeth Ross, ...
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Gerard Beirne
February 13, 2014 11:25 AM
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opy of a letter to a classroom of students, whose letters made my day last spring!(Condensed from the original) What an awesome surprise it was to find your letters waiting in my mailbox today! Ever so much better than bills and sales flyers, which (sadly enough) make up most of the mail I receive. I read each of your letters carefully, and with great delight. Thank you all for the compliments and kind words – they meant more to me than you can imagine
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February 13, 2014 11:19 AM
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About the author: Growing up in the small village of Jacquet River, New Brunswick, Canada, there was always a fair share of comedy to share around. People had a certain connectivity by helping their fellow neighbour out.
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Gerard Beirne
February 11, 2014 12:46 PM
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The world�s most famous profane children's book goes Caribbean.
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February 11, 2014 9:51 AM
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The University of New Brunswick would like to invite you to a reading by noted ecologist Don Gayton, who will be reading from a selection of his works.
Gayton has published extensively throughout his career, both in academic and non-academic circles. As an ecologist, Gayton's work has allowed him to travel around the world, and these experiences influence his non-fiction writing.
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Gerard Beirne
March 4, 2014 9:38 PM
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Could be the rowdy city
cousins of aurora borealis.
How the Gods pour tea.
Exclamation marks,
letting down their lime-
green hair.
- from “Fireworks”
Admittedly, the title of Lynn Davies’ book, her first in eight years,
hooked me – I bought it to find out how the Gods pour tea. As luck would
have it, I found out so much more.
- review by Shawna Lemay
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Gerard Beirne
March 4, 2014 9:36 AM
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Sackville's Poet Laureate Marilyn Lerch Launches New Poetry Collection
Title The Physics of Allowable SwayPublished by Devon Avenue Poetry Books in 2013Printed & Bound in Canada by Gaspereau Press, Ltd. Fourth collection.Available at Tidewater Books, Sackville, NBor from the authorcontact: mlerch@nbnet.nb.ca
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Gerard Beirne
February 27, 2014 11:17 AM
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The worst-kept secret in Canadian publishing is the identity of Nick Cutter, author of The Troop. Though Cutter won't confirm it himself (see below), his name ... I assume you’re talking about Craig Davidson, the Canadian writer with whom I’ve been linked? Let me state for the record: I know Craig. I am not Craig. Craig lives around my neighborhood. I can’t say we’re friends, though I’m sure he’d claim so—if we are friends, it is in the way a remora is a shark’s friend. It is a parasitical attachment!
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February 27, 2014 10:19 AM
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Gerard Beirne
February 26, 2014 11:22 AM
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Craig Davidson has his preoccupations—crime, violence, and what some might call hyper-masculinity. His writing is muscular, offering soft jabs and fierce punches at precisely the correct mom...
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Gerard Beirne
February 26, 2014 10:31 AM
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In June of 2013, about a year after starting my blog The Urge (and less than a year after my own first poetry collection was published), I moved with my wife and cat to the U.S. state of Wisconsin to take up an Assistant Professor position in modern British and Irish literature. As a trained academic needing to make a living, this was a boon: the job market in higher education is terrible—the worthy-candidate-to-position ratio is sadly astronomical—and so I felt (and feel) very lucky to have landed tenure-track employment. Cobbling an income together course by course in the shadow of massive debt had, within less than two years, eroded my negative capability to such an extent that I was becoming moody, compulsive, combative—a brooding denizen of uncertainty.
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Gerard Beirne
February 23, 2014 3:01 PM
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The latest installment of Olympic poetry, in which Kwame Dawes explores Canada's passion for hockey.
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Gerard Beirne
February 23, 2014 11:40 AM
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The Frye Festival is Canada’s largest literary happening. Each year in the month of April, English- and French- speaking authors from all regions of Canada—and from around the world—arrive in Greater Moncton, New Brunswick, to take part in the Frye Festival.
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Gerard Beirne
February 13, 2014 11:36 AM
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“There are rules for what I’ve done. Specific punishments for crimes against friendship.” Laren Olivier knows the rules, but her attraction to a friend’s ex-boyfriend is strong. She tells herself that if only they can keep their romance a secret, no one will get hurt. But Laren is not the only one with something to hide.
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Gerard Beirne
February 13, 2014 11:21 AM
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Well, I have and I haven't! Oh, this is so confusing! One of my literary goals on my bucket list is to dip my toes in the Atlantic Ocean and then write a poem about it. I don't know when I will get...
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Gerard Beirne
February 13, 2014 11:14 AM
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Controversial bon mots from CanLit's “gutter-tongued old queen” RM Vaughan
Montreal Gazette (blog)
I've long thought author, playwright and poet RM Vaughan is one of the finest – and wittiest – writers of his generation.
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Gerard Beirne
February 11, 2014 12:30 PM
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The NotaBle Acts Theatre Company 2014 Playwriting Competition Rules and Regulations As part of its commitment to developing home-grown theatre in New Brunswick, The NotaBle Acts Summer Theatre Fest...
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