The New Brunswick Literary Times

The University of New Brunswick would like to invite you to a literary reading by acclaimed writers Joan Clark, Ruth Roach Pierson, Maureen Hynes. The reading will be held on Friday, Sept 21, 2012 at 8pm in the Alumni Memorial Lounge on the UNB Fredericton Campus.

Joan Clark is writer-in-residence at UNB from September 2012 to April 2013. She is available to the public and to make an appointment contact her at joan.clark@unb.ca or at 506-452-6356.

Associate Editor Nicelle Davis brings us poetry by and an interview with Gerard Beirne. Mr. Beirne has scattered wonderful words into the wind for us – words that twist and dance in meaning and sound. Each poem’s title is a numbered Meditation – but these are meditations with some desperation in them... One thing I find fascinating about these poems is the pace – the punctuation makes it so these poems can be read quickly, manically, like a racing mind – or slowly, deliberately, like a quiet meditation.

Poetry Weekend is an annual gathering of poets in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Readings take place in Memorial Hall on the UNB campus at 11am, 2pm, and 8pm Saturday and Sunday. This year's poets include Nyla Matuk, Sue Sinclair, Nick Thran, Steve Noyes, Patrick Warner, Brian Bartlett, Matthew Tierney, Darren Bifford, Amanda Jernigan, Darryl Whetter, Jan Zwicky, Stewart Cole, Jim Johnstone, Shane Neilson, Jan Conn, Monica Kidd, and Matthew Henderson - just to name a few of the talented poets who will be reading!

I’m not sure where the fully-formed idea for Husk came from. I have always loved zombies and knew that I wanted to somehow incorporate my favourite monster into a story. Ever since I caught the original Night of the Living Dead on late-night television (eyes clenched shut, bowels constricted in terror), I don’t think there’s been a monster that has affected me on such a primal level.( I don’t include the shark from Jaws here, as that beast is more or less real, and in a league all its own.)
(Not, however, the sharks of the sequels, though; as the series ambled on, they lost any semblance of reality and became pretty much just painted logs with fins menacing less and less talented actors.

A new trailer has surfaced for Jacques Audiard's highly anticipated new drama Rust and Bone, which stars Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose) and rising Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts (Bullhead).

Based on Craig Davidson’s short story collection, the film chronicles an unlikely relationship between a killer whale trainer (Cotillard) who loses her legs in a terrible accident and a struggling single father (Schoenaerts) who helps her recover the will to live. Audiard is fast becoming one of France’s most important directors, following 2005′s The Beat That My Heart Skipped and 2010′s masterful A Prophet – both César and BAFTA award winners – and this film seems likely to cement that position.

To celebrate the return of the school year, the Telegraph Journal invited eight New Brunswick writers to reflect on the teachers that shaped their careers and their selves.

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New Atlantic Canada rep for Writers' Union elected

New Brunswick's Lee Thompson has been elected as the new Atlantic Canada rep for the Writers Union of Canada. There are approximately 150 members of TWUC in Atlantic Canada and Lee plans on meeting with those writers over the next two years, travelling to all Atlantic Canadian provinces. If you wish to know more about membership in TWUC, please write Lee at leedthompson@gmail.com. One-on-one meetings in the Moncton region can be arranged as well. http://www.writersunion.ca/

This archive exists to answer a need for academic scholarship on writing of the Atlantic region. Though recent decades have seen the publication of numerous anthologies dealing with writing in the Atlantic provinces—Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada (1999), Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada (2002), and Meetings with Maritime Poets (2006) spring to mind—critical scholarship for these poets remains remarkably elusive. With this archive, we hope to change that.

PUBLIC POETICS: CRITICAL ISSUES IN CANADIAN POETRY AND POETICS
Mount Allison University, Sackville NB, 20–23 September 2012

Poetic discourse in Canada has always been changing to assert poetry’s relevance to the public sphere. While some poets and critics have sought to shift poetic subjects in Canada to make political incursions into public discourses, others have sought changes in poetic form as a means to encourage wider public engagement

A native of Blackville, New Brunswick, Wayne caught his first salmon at the age of 8. He is an avid fly fisherman and spends half of each year on the Miramichi River where he finds time to work as a guide as well as write.

In his new collection of essays, Wayne Curtis voyages back through the tributaries of his past, throwing a pastoral net over the backwaters of his childhood to ensnare the sepia-tinged moments of love, loss, and life lessons gleaned through his rise to maturity on the waterways of New Brunswick.