Cameron Anstee on small press culture

Joseph Kosuth, "One and Three Chairs" (1965)

“[I] hope that anyone who is in the field of publishing, particularly commercial publishing, will find some way of continuing to publish and to argue for poetry. I say this because I firmly believe that poetry is language raised to its highest power”

(bpNichol)

Revisiting poems by Gerry Shikatani — meditative & sensuous

It's been a long time coming!

The latest issue of The Dalhousie Review is out now, feat. Lucas Crawford, Gavin Foster, Sylvia D. Hamilton, & more!
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This weekend in Halifax, Dani Spinosa and Kate Siklosi join us for 2 events:

1) “Yours in the Work”: Community, Creativity, and the Practice of Heartwork," a talk at Dalhousie - Friday, 4:00 pm, McCain 1198

2) A launch for the latest issue of The Dalhousie Review at Cafe Lara - Saturday, 6:30 pm

"I always feel I am questioning when I write novels, and I wanted to deal with my long-lasting question about human violence and the possibility or impossibility of refusing it."

- Han Kang on writing The Vegetarian

Man Rei

Thrilled to see that UbuWeb rides again:

TOMORROW: Dalhousie University hosts a literary reading by Bart Vautour, Daryl Bruce, and Emily Cann -- Friday, Jan. 31 at 4:00 pm in McCain 1198 (@dal-english.bsky.social):

A picture of me editing my dumb little poems for the press
(via @whatisapoem.bsky.social)

And so the re-sequencing begins…

Today, I spoke with bill bissett, who recounted his childhood in Halifax. He recalled the inlets of the Northwest Arm just as I stepped onto the gravel of its shoreline (pictured here).

Happy New Year; may you find peace and rest; may you find such brilliant moments on our horizon of uncertainty.

So pleased to return home to be greeted by my contributor’s copy of the latest issue of Echolocation, and in such good company! This new poem is from my new book, forthcoming THIS FALL from Coach House Books.

New from @mdnardone.bsky.social -- Convivialities: Dialogues on Poetics (@talonbooks.bsky.social)

Across the interviews, Michael investigates how artists "continue to create in a world ravaged by climate crisis, economic crisis, settler colonialism, and imperialism."

talonbooks.com/books/?convi...

I felt very nice and safe at the hotel…

Last spring, Judith Copithorne launched her career-spanning ANOTHER ORDER, published by Talonbooks (and I had the pleasure of introducing and editing the collection). Some great reviews have been published, and I'll share them with you here. A little 🧵...

Dear friends, it is my great pleasure to announce that Judith Copithorne’s Another Order: Selected Works is out now from Talonbooks. It was a true pleasure to work closely with Judith and bring together work from over 50 years of her practice.

More info and ordering: talonbooks.com/books/anothe...