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,...
by Kevin Spenst | Mar 5, 2011 | poetry
Jacob McArthur Mooney’s Vox Populism is indispensable. His Retail series preview upcoming poetry titles from Canadian presses, an ambitious undertaking that has helped to establish a platform for the discussion of Canadian poetry and poetics. Mooney’s also...
by Kevin Spenst | Mar 1, 2011 | poetry
Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011), kate street (Moira,...
by Kevin Spenst | Feb 25, 2011 | poetry
Robert Lee Brewer is the editor of Writer’s Market, Poet’s Market and WritersMarket.com, in addition to maintaining the blog Poetic Asides. Brewer has published poems in several print and online publications, including Barn Owl Review, Otoliths, and OCHO. He was kind...
by Kevin Spenst | Feb 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
Aaron Belz writes poems into the some of the most surprising occasions and places: an alternate ending to It’s a Wonderful Life, the death of Leslie Neilsen, and a place called Irwindale. Not surprisingly, his approach to editing also comes from a unique angle:...
by Kevin Spenst | Feb 13, 2011 | Uncategorized
Linda Rogers, poet laureate of Victoria, B.C., is not only a poet but also a novelist, teacher and journalist. She says on her website that “[a]s we get closer and more competitive in the crowded world, we are discovering that we need liturgies for living. That...
