by Kevin Spenst | Apr 9, 2011 | Uncategorized
Christine McNair’s work has appeared in CV2, Poetry is Dead, Prairie Fire, Arc, The New Quarterly, Misunderstandings, The Bywords Quarterly Journal, ditchpoetry.com, and sundry other places. In 2011, she was shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch award for innovative...
by Kevin Spenst | Apr 4, 2011 | poetry, writing advice, writing s(c)een(e) in Vancouver
Raoul Fernandes lives and writes (and makes music) in Vancouver B.C. He was recently nominated for the Bronwen Wallace Award for emerging writers and is currently beginning his first poetry manuscript. For a taste of his poetic take on the world, follow his thoughts...
by Kevin Spenst | Mar 26, 2011 | poetry, writing advice
A poetry title to look out for this spring is the Id Kid, Linda Besner’s debut collection which is “crammed with tall tales, off-colour jokes and cockamamie theories”. Linda took time out from her busy schedule to answer my editing questions. While...
by Kevin Spenst | Mar 15, 2011 | poetry
Jason Christie has been published in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies. He has also contributed as an editor, along with Derek Beaulieu and A. Rawlings, to the anthology Shift &Switch: New Canadian Poetry, published by Mercury Press in 2005. His books...
by Kevin Spenst | Mar 11, 2011 | poetry
Pearl Pirie’s second collection, Thirsts, is the 2011 winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. It will come out with Snare in Fall 2011. Her poems have appeared in places including ditch, anthology 4 (canadian) (innovative poets), PRECIPICe,...
