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Written by The Administrator
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 |
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September has arrived, and that means a whole new season of great books from Coach House Press. You'll want to mark you calendars for October 24 now, so you don't miss the Coach House Fall Launch at Revival in Toronto, and then brace yourself for the flurry of Coach House happenings throughout the next few months.
In preparation of a full and exciting fall season, we're having a party! All are welcome at the Coach House Open House, and we hope to see some of you enjoying yourselves as we cap off the summer at Coach House HQ. There's a truckload of other Coach House news and events for September, as well. Please read below for information about the latest award wins, events and reviews. |
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Written by Katie St Jean
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 |
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The September 2006 Toronto literary calendar, a monthly supplement to Word, is online. It's bursting with fantastic literary events; check it out today! Download it here. It is a supplement to the July/August Issue, which features:
- Present, future tense: Stolen by Annette Lapointe. Review by Kate Sutherland
- Many portals to alternate small-press universes: Une canadienne errante by Maggie Helwig
- Lexiconjury: the initial spells of overt wunder: Something Else by Bill Kennedy
- Drawing on / travelling through: Finding Lily: A Memoir by Richard Clewes. Review by M. Wayne Cunningham
- Where's the best place to sit at a poetry reading? Fun with 'pataphysics (Ages 1 to Ethernity) by Sharon Harris
- Garage sails, clockwise and anti-2¢: Some thoughts in, on or about the smallpress enclave. Conwenna Stokes interviews Jay MillAr.
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Written by Daniel Sendecki
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 |
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We are pleased to have added the fall 2006 lineup for the Zinc Talk/Reading Series to our events calendar.
Mike Lorber, the series' host, writes: "Unlike other reading series around the country, the Zinc Talk/Reading Series will never feature genetically modified poets treated with bovine growth hormone. We never use antibiotics or steroids to make the poets ripen faster & we don't dilute our poets with cheap soy products or breading. Many of the readers, such as those living in large lofts in Bushwick or outside of New York altogether, could be considered free range. When you come to the Zinc-TRS, what you get are the kind of wholesome, robust poets you can feel good about feeding to your children."
The series runs (almost) every single Sunday at 6:59PM. $5 goes to the poets if you have that kind of money. If not, just bring it next time okay? Your host is Brendan Lorber, now with extra flavor packets.
Brendan Lorber is a poet and the editor/publisher of LUNGFULL!Magazine, a magazine that prints the rough draft of people's work along with the final version so you can see the process from start to finish . . . if you subscribe.
The Zinc Bar is a happening jazz dive on the edge of Soho and the West Village that hosts small-name bands and poetry evenings. Dates, reviews, and more information after the jump! |
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Written by Daniel Sendecki
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Monday, 28 August 2006 |
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Ahadada Books, in association with West House Books and Ikuta Press, have launched an online shop designed to provide our readers in North America with the books they want at affordable prices—over 50 titles are available on-line from this new area of their website.
The new shop was a planned extension of their site and fits with their mission to provide titles not readily available in Canada and North America. They hope this new extension serves as a valuable supplement to augment sales, support traditional sales channels and better serve regional markets.
At the moment we offer a selected number books, but before the end of this year we hope to make the additional presses and books available for purchase. |
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Written by Katie St Jean
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 |
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This newly revised guide lists over a hundred literary sites and bookstores in Manhattan. Visit J. D. Salinger's boyhood home, drink with the ghost of Dylan Thomas at the White Horse Tavern or leave your own mark by participating in a poetry slam at the Nuyorican Poets Café.
To receive your copy, please send a Stamped Addressed Envelope (12 X 9) with 63 cents postage to the Small Press Center, 20 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036. |
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Written by Katie St Jean
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 |
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Snare Books is pleased to announce the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. The prize will be awarded annually to the best poetry manuscript by an emerging Canadian writer (a writer who has published two books or less). Each year the winning manuscript will be selected by an established poet in co-operation with Snare Books. This year's judge is Darren Wershler-Henry.
The winner will receive a trade paperback contract with Snare Books which will include the publication of the manuscript and a $500 honorarium.
The deadline is January 31, 2007.
Each entry must be accompanied with a business size SASE and an entry fee for $30.00 Canadian. Please make all cheques payable to Livres Snare. No cash please.
About Robert Kroetsch:
One of Canada's most celebrated literary artists, Robert Kroetsch is without a doubt Canada's most important postmodern writer. His novels, poetry and theory have consistently been benchmarks for literary innovation in Canada. He won the governor General's Award for his novel, The Studhorse Man, and in 2004, he was made an officer of the order of Canada. Snare Books is proud to honour his literary legacy through the establishment of the annual Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.
For More on Robert Kroetsch please visit here, here, and here. |
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Written by Daniel Sendecki
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Sunday, 06 August 2006 |
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Any four of the following books for £10 sterling (all 13 for £30).
Cris Cheek & Sianed Jones: Songs from Navigation Kelvin
Corcoran: Lyric Lyric Ken Edwards: Futures Allen Fisher: Dispossession
and Cure, Susan Gevirtz: Taken Place Anselm Hollo (ed. &
tr.): Five from Finland Barbara Guest: If so, Tell Me Tony
Lopez: Data Shadow Lisa Robertson: The Weather Lisa
Robertson: Debbie: An Epic Maurice Scully: STEPS Robert
Sheppard : The Lores Lawrence Upton : Wire Sculptures
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Written by The Administrator
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Thursday, 03 August 2006 |
 August 11–13 Portland, Oregon. Emily Horne of A Softer World, her no-good-roadie-of-a-boyfriend Jeremy and Mike Lecky will be loading up their newly aquired Loose Teeth tour van on August 10th and heading down to Portland for the Portland Zine Symposium ( http://pdxzines.com/) for 3 days of workshops, readings, selling things, and drinking Sparks (for those who don't know it's like Colt 45 + Red Bull + Tang - http://www.sparks.com/ ). Go and visit their table, it'll be the one with the big slime green tooth. For directions, information, et al, click here.
September 9–10 San Francisco, California. There are vague plans for this to be an intense 14 day bike-from-Vancouver-to-San Francisco type event, but since we *just* got our poor little red minivan last week we'll probably end up driving it just so it doesn't feel lonely. This is a two day zine fair, taking place at CELLspace (2050 Bryant St, in the Mission). For directions, information, et al, click here. |
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Written by Jessica Smith
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Wednesday, 02 August 2006 |
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Organic Furniture Cellar: Works on Paper 2002–2004 by Jessica Smith, published by Outside Voices. Distributed by Bootstrap Productions, 96 pp. $16. Go to Outside Voices for more info. Juliana Spahr writes of Organic Furniture Cellar:
Jessica Smith's Organic Furniture Cellar takes on big issues, such as how to write about the place where you live with all its distractions, beauties, and limitations intact. And she writes out of these questions a beautifully fragmented series of page aware poems. A stunning and necessary first book... |
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Written by Daniel Sendecki
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 |
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Perpetual Motion Roadshow #35 is on very shortly featuring expat femme wordsmith HADASSAH HILL from New York City, sorry-ass folk singer CORT BULLOCH from Calgary, and secret rap legend JESSE DANGEROUSLY from Halifax!
The Perpetual Motion Roadshow is an indie press touring circuit, an unholy combination of a vaudevillian variety show and a punk rock tour. Each month, three new lively indie performers pile in a car and do seven cities in eight days, doing shows with the bold guarantee: NO BORING READINGS OR YOUR MONEY BACK! Transnational, it loops the northeast May-October and makes runs down the west coast during November-April. Founded by No Media Kings, we've been making our own fun since 2003—running on pure volunteer power and dirty dirty gasoline. All shows are pay-what-you-can.
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