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Five Minutes at Montreal’s Expozine 2021
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Montreal’s Expozine and POP Montreal were kind enough to invite me and other Montreal poets to perform in support of our respective micro- and small presses. You can catch my brief contribution (until the end of October 2021, anyway) around the 35:00 mark, here.
The chapbook I’m reading from is As on a holiday. You can view the Zoom launch here and purchase a copy from the publisher, Cactus Press.
Synchronicity-invoked Dangerous Supplement
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Leave a comment By “meaningful coincidence,” the day I downloaded and taught myself the software I needed to make the raw Zoom footage of the launch for my latest chapbook at least a little more presentable, a Canadian poet-critic shared he’d just published an essay on “‘counterfactual’ poetry anthologies, ” a topic essayed by one of the poems from that chapbook‘s Toronto Suite: “Literary Life in the Capital””
“As on a holiday” launch, for your poetry viewing pleasure…
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Comments (1) The March 24, 2021 launch of my latest chapbook is now up online: if you missed the event, you can catch it here.
As on a holiday: teaser #3
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My latest chapbook, As on a holiday, launches Wednesday 24 March.
It’s a challenging book to present orally/aurally, as the poems are all very short. The reader, too, therefore, is faced with the question of exactly how to connect all these short poems. In the tradition of postmodern poetry, such as that of Homer, Dante, and Cervantes, the collection includes a poem that suggests an approach, the first of Farnad Songbook, read here:
Looking forward to seeing you all at the launch!
As on a holiday: Teaser #2
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Leave a comment The launch of my new chapbook, As on a holiday, is getting closer. Today, I offer as preview (pre-hear?) two poems from the section “Made in Germany”.
Everything you need to tune in you should find here.
As on a holiday: Teaser #1
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I launch my chapbook As on a holiday (Cactus Press) in just over a week. Between now and then I’ll be posting short readings from the book to pique your interest if not whet your appetite.
The first is part of the “London intermezzo” from the section “Made in Germany”.
The FB Event page for the Zooom launch Wednesday 24 March is here.
New Chapbook: As on a holiday…
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I launch my latest chapbook, As on a holiday, with Montreal’s Cactus Press 24 March 2021 20h00 ET. The chapbook collates four short sequences composed during and about trips to Germany (2012), Slovakia (2014), Toronto (2017), and Saskatchewan (2018).
You can access the Zoom link at the Facebook Event page, here.
You can read an earlier version of one of the poems from the Toronto suite, here.
The indefatigable rob mcclennan has published a wi(l)de-ranging interview with the press’ three editors, here.
I’ve invested this year’s Public Lending Rights cheque in a new microphone, so the sound quality of the launch is sure to be top notch! Copies of the limited-edition chapbook are available in print and electronic formats through the publisher, linked above.
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