Whilst Donna Allard writes on the coastal fringe in New Brunswick, Canada, Nat Hall walks and writes by her shoormal, somewhere on the 60th parallel in her windswept Shetland Islands, Scotland’s most northerly archipelago. “Shore”, as described by J. L. Leprohon in her “Sea Shore Musings” poem, is the Creator’s power—in her own Canadian home, “Mysterious, moaning main,/ in dreams I’ll see thy snow-white foam”. It’s described by Chile’s bard Pablo Neruda in “No me hagan caso / Forget about Me”, as a place where the sea washes, throws up crab claws and skulls of many kinds …
Anita Lahey’s second collection of poems, Spinning Side Kick, was released by Véhicule Press in 2011. Her first book, Out to Dry in Cape Breton, was nominated for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the Ottawa Book Award, and she is a past winner of the Great Blue Heron Poetry Prize and the Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem, among others. Her work has been shortlisted several times for the CBC Literary Award for Poetry. She worked as editor of Arc Poetry Magazine from 2004 to 2011, and is also a journalist who has written for Canadian publications such as Maisonneuve, the Walrus, Cottage Life, Canadian Geographic and Quill & Quire. She lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Sue Sinclair has been named the Canadian Women in the Literary Arts’ first Resident Critic, a post she will hold for the next year. The Critic-in-Residence, a paid position, has been created to address gender gaps in Canada’s book review culture, as revealed by the CWILA Numbers.
Critic-in-Residence Committee Manager, Laura Moss, says that it was “heartening” to see how many strong applications were received for this inaugural position. Applications came from almost every province in Canada, from those starting out and from those with years of experience. Moss thinks that “the depth of the applicant pile really speaks to the deep desire to change review culture in Canada.
New poems based on her CrossFit training by Canadian poet Sharon McCartney...
These are beautiful touching poems replete with incisive perceptions about the relationship of love and pain, about the struggle of life. The Greeks called it agon. The Greeks saw no distinction between athleticism, art, philosophy, politics and love. They didn’t compartmentalize the way we do. Sharon tries here to reconnect art, emotion and the body.
Hard Ass by Sharon McCartney - NOT YET AVAILABLE ISBN 978-1-926794-13-6 5 x 8paperback Approx. 96 pages Hard Ass is a daring and bold collection of poetry, filled with passion and anger. McCartney skillfully hones her craft,...
Science has a special relationship to the physical world. Slowly and methodically it puts forward questions and hypotheses which are tested and assessed, and which have advanced our knowledge to the extent that we can now perform successful heart and brain surgery, we can immunise people against dangerous disease, we can begin to explore the depths of the oceans and the movements of the planets.
But science, in order to document and communicate its findings must use the methods of logic and draw language from the communal language pool. This is the aspect of science which the poet Gerard Beirne engages with in his new collection of poetry Games of Chance.
Siege 13 is a stupendous book, a surprising book, thirteen artful and exciting stories united by the events and fallout of the bloody siege of Budapest in 1944, where Hungarians were caught between the Nazis who occupied Budapest and the Soviet behemoth Red Army which soon conquered the city (what a cheery choice: Adolf or Uncle Joe).
This Friday November 23 at 3:30 pm Sheree Fitch will be at the Sackville Public Library to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her book Toes in my Nose. Tidewater Books will have four of her much lo...
We are happy to have the lovely Joan Clark to lead the Winter Writers' Retreat, February 8, 9, and 10. She is the UNB Writer in Residence for 2012, 2013.
Florence Gibson MacDonald accepts the Carol Bolt Award on behalf of Don Hannah and reads the acceptance speech for his winning play, "The Cave Painter"
Presented for the best work premiered by a PGC-member in the past year, the 2012 Carol Bolt Award was bestowed on Don Hannah for The Cave Painter. Jury: Florence Gibson MacDonald (Chair), Catherine Banks, Martin Kinch and Cynthia Zimmerman.
I have always been a fan of Canadian writers but this issue of The Malahat Review reminded me just how much I enjoy them. The writing was stunning and surprising with every turn of the page. This issue contained poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, an interview, and book reviews. On their website the editors share that “The Malahat Review publishes poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction by new and established writers from Canada and abroad as well as reviews of Canadian books.” The majority of writers included in this issue were Canadian and previously published.
‘Henrietta was a literary woman, and the great advantage of being a literary woman was that you could go everywhere and do everything’ Years ago, when I was young and snooty and resentful of obliga...
Welcome to Fred Cogswell: The Many-Dimensioned Self. This digital volume is both a Selected Works of Cogswell and a Critical Appraisal of his creative and cultural work. As such, it offers a broad entry to and assessment of the work of one of Canada’s most important literary modernists.
The digital interface enables multiple points of access and use. Most readers will want to use the ISSUU book. ISSUU software simulates the Gutenberg book, and so is the most familiar format for a collection like this. For more functionality, use the links above for quick access to the book text in searchable form. Students and scholars will find that function especially useful. The website also provides access for the visually impaired. We invite readers to try both options.
This essay by the important Canadian poet, Alden Nowlan, is from his 1978 collection of essays entitled Double Exposure. The Flat Earth Society of Canada, of which Nowlan and Ferrari were founding members, fizzled out in the mid-80‘s but not before Dr. Ferrari finished his manuscript called “The Earth Is Flat : An Exposé of the Globularist Hoax” which now resides in the archives of St. Thomas University in New Brunswick. Dr. Ferrari passed away on October 7, 2010.
Apologies for being somewhat absent from the pages of NC. I’ve been on a reading trip to the East Coast, traveling by car with the dog. Stopped in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where I stayed with Mark Jarman in his grand house facing the Saint John River (on land once owned, yes, by that famous American patriot Benedict Arnold). NC Senior Editor R. W. Gray also lives in that house. And that night we three went out to the Lunar Rogue Pub and met up with Gerard Beirne, thus four, amazingly, four real NC contributors sat at the same table.
From 1977 to 1981 Harry Thurston edited and published Germination. It was founded, he wrote, "with the goal of publishing as much work as possible by new writers...If Germination can function as good listener and offer feedback that stimulates their growth, then, it will have succeeded, in good measure, in what it set out to do."
In 1982 Allan Cooper took over the publishing of the magazine moving it, he says, "from Harry's farmhouse in Southampton, Nova Scotia to my house in riverview, New Brunswick."
"The first issue of Germination in 22 years is in honour of the American poet, translator, and social and political commentator Robert Bly. The issue includes a new poem by Robert, a poem by the eminent translator of Rumi, Coleman Barks, and a reminiscence by former Poet Laureate of the United States, Donald Hall. What many people do not know is that Robert's work nurtured a number of Canadian poets. So the issue also includes poets from across Canada, some of whom offer notes and essays about Robert's contribution to world poetry and his influence on them."
The issue is 80 pages on Zephyr laid paper, smyth sewn, and is available for $15, including shipping and handling. Cheques should be made out to Allan Cooper, 8500 Main Street, Alma, New Brunswick, Canada E4H 1M7
Nicole Markotić’s poetry is kinetic. In both of her collections, Minotaurs and Other Alphabets (1998) and Bent at the Spine (2012), her aesthetics torque the prose poem until it transforms into something hectic, witty, and earnest. For Markotić, the loosely structured versification of the prose poem avoids the “and/or” pitfalls that Western traditional poetry and prose rely on. By disregarding formal line breaks and punctuation, her prosody conveys a more natural pause.
Tammy Armstrong has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, the Governor General’s Award, and short-listed twice for the CBC Literary Prize. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick, working in Critical Animal Studies and North Atlantic Poetry.
Two fantastic, entertaining, and fearless authors will be featured on Thursday, November 29, at Cafe Aberdeen in Moncton. The readings are part of the long-running Attic Owl Reading Series
The event is sponsored by The Writers' Federation of New Brunswick with assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts. The event is free and open to the public. Not to be missed!
SARAH MURPHY is a New Brunswick-based performer, author, intermedia and visual artist who has contributed to the Canadian arts scene and to her wider community for over twenty years. Best known for her award-winning performance monologues and innovative novels and short stories, Murphy has also produced installations that coordinate with intermedia performances. Her spoken word work is especially groundbreaking, and richly deserves recognition for bringing to spoken word prose the resonance of poetry. In her long career Murphy has participated in the arts not only through her own work, but through her support of other artists and artists’ organizations.
MARILYN LERCH was born in 1936 in East Chicago, Indiana. 1996 she moved to Sackville, NB, formed the Sackville Writers' Group and Roving Poets, taught creative writing at Westmorland, Springhill and Dorchester prisons, taught Memoir with the Tantramar Senior College, and served as president of the WFNB from 2006 to 2010. Poetry publications: Lambs & Llamas, Ewes & Me, 2001, Moon Loves Its Light, 2004, Witness and Resist, 2008, co-edited Breaking the Word Barrier: Stories of Adults Learning to Read, 2009. Two musical settings, The Whole is Enough to Drive You Crazy, for voice, guitar and cello, W.L. Altman, 2002, We Move Homeward for chorus and orchestra by Alasdair MacLean.
When I was about eight years old, I started rabbit hunting with my father. Actually, they were snowshoe hares. He would set the snares, and we’d check them every couple of days. I followed him into the woods as the designated axe holder. That was my job. Then one evening we found that one of the rabbits we’d caught was still alive in the slip. I won’t describe it. Let’s just say the animal was seriously damaged. My father turned to me for the axe, but somehow I’d forgotten it, left it behind, or dropped it. I can’t remember. He lifted the animal by the back paws and swung its head against a tree as if slapping a wet towel against a rock. Here was an essentially non-violent man performing a necessarily violent act with what seemed like indifference. Of course, it wasn’t. I think this was my first encounter with real hurt troubled by complexity and responsibility.
International Festival of Authors, Toronto Saturday 27 October 12:00pm Zombies, Witches, Killers and Cowboys: Visions of the Future Novel Featuring: Deborah Harkness, Alen Mattich, Jo Nesbø, Corey Redekop. Host/Moderator: Andrew Pyper
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