ottawa poetry newsletter

Hello all, Check out my review of Basement Tapes by Marcus McCann, Andrew Faulkner and Nick Lea, in Montreal mag Matrix . The collaborative...

In June of this past year, Ottawa’s prodigal son, Warren Dean Fulton , returned for the Small Press Fair , to sell publications from Pooka P...

Last night was a feast of poetry, opening with David McGimpsey ’s Sitcom (Coach House Books) and ending with the poetry cabaret featuring St...

Each year Bywords awards a prize for poem of the year. The John Newlove Poetry Award for 2007 was given Oct 15th at the National Library an...

It’s always a pleasure to hear George Elliott Clarke read; he is a frequent reader at the Ottawa International Writers Festival He read from...

The reading to the memory of the poet, George Johnston . It was fairly well attended as well. Perhaps 70 or 80 people came, including his si...

winner of the 2007 Lampman-Scott Award for poetry for Disappointment Island ( Chaudiere Books ); Congratulations also to Chaudiere Books fo...

In association with SAW Video, the CFI is pleased to begin its tenth season of Café EX @ Club SAW with filmmaker John D. Scott’s, SCOUTS ARE...

will take place on October 15, 2007, 8:30 pm at the Ottawa International Writers Festival Library and Archives Canada 395 Wellington Street,...

Okay, admittedly the pre-season tag has more to do with hockey than with our NCR orature scene. Several things are, on the contrary, in full...

Nadine McInnis is the author of seven books, including the fiction collection, Quicksilver ( Raincoast ), which was nominated for the 2002 ...

Colin Morton was born in Toronto after WWII, grew up in Calgary during the oil boom, attended U. of Calgary when W.O. Mitchell was writer-i...

Ottawa's novelists are out in force this fall, with book launches by (among others) Elizabeth Hay , Rita Donovan , John Metcalf , Phil J...