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Irving Layton Centenary
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Jan 28, 2012, 08:35
Calendar
February 2012: Reading and Events
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Jan 7, 2012, 09:10
Interviews
Arthur Holden Spotlighted
Arthur Holden is a Montreal actor and writer. He has appeared in numerous film and television productions and is the voice of Mr. Ratburn in the long-running PBS cartoon series “Arthur”.
Dec 28, 2011, 20:28
News
Fred Wah: Poet Laureate of Canada 2012-2014
"My work as parliamentary poet laureate will continue to engage poetry as it represents our homes and migrations, our questions of history and identity."
Dec 24, 2011, 11:15
Table of Contents
Poetry Quebec: Issue #9
Yassaman Ameri - Vojan Tihomir Arhar - Jason Blake - Susan Briscoe - Lori Cayer - Anne Cimon - Aleš Debeljak - Endre Farkas - Jack Hannan - Alojz Ihan - Gustav Januš - Milan Jesih - Edvard Kocbek - Tom Konyves- Kajetan Kovic - Cvetka Lipuš - Brane Mozetic - Uroš Mozetic - Josip Osti - John Oughton - Bojan Pisk - Jure Potokar - Tomaž Šalamun - Richard Sommer - Gregor Strniša - Gillian Sze - Vida Taufer - Bruce Taylor - Maja Vidmar - Bruce Whiteman - Dane Zajc - Bine Štampe Žmavc
Sep 22, 2011, 08:14
News
Jack Layton: A Tribute
Poetry Quebec shares the sadness felt by all Canadians at the death of Mr. Jack Layton. His dedication and labour for social justice and values gave us hope.
Jan 11, 2012, 23:23
News
Václav Havel: October 5, 1936-December 18, 2011
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
Dec 23, 2011, 17:34
History
Charles Mair: 1838-1927
Charles Mair (September 21, 1838 – July 7, 1927) was a Canadian poet and journalist. He was a fervent Canadian Nationalist noted for his participation in the Canada First movement and his opposition to Louis Riel during the two Riel Rebellions in western Canada.
Dec 20, 2011, 09:30
News
Australian Wins Montreal International Poetry Prize
The anticipation is over. The winner of the $50,000 Montreal International Poetry Prize for a single poem has been decided.
Dec 17, 2011, 10:31
Poems
Stephanie Bolster: 4 Poems
Stephanie Bolster’s first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems (Signal/Véhicule), won the Governor General's Award and the Gerald Lampert Award in 1998 and appeared in French with Les Éditions du Noroît in 2007.
Dec 17, 2011, 09:41
Poems
Mark Tredinnick: The $50,000 Poem
Mark Tredinnick, is the winner of the $50,000 Montreal Poetry Prize. The author of The Blue Plateau and Fire Diary, he is a poet, essayist, and writing teacher. He lives in the highlands southwest of Sydney, Australia.
Dec 17, 2011, 09:28
Reviews
Stephanie Bolster: A Page From the Wonders of Life on Earth
In Bolster's fourth collection, she attempts the difficult task of writing "travel poems" starting from generally well-known locations in Europe.
Dec 17, 2011, 08:48
Poems
Brian Campbell: 2 Poems
Montreal-based poet, singer-songwriter, editor, and translator Brian Campbell is the author of Passenger Flight (Signature Editions, 2009), Guatemala and Other Poems (1994) and Undressing the Night (2007), his translation of the selected poems of Francisco Santos. Published widely, his poetry was shortlisted for the 2006 CBC Literary Award.
Dec 15, 2011, 11:10
Poems
Gabe Foreman: 4 Poems
Gabe Foreman was born in Thunder Bay. He has worked as a tree planter in British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario. He’s a co-founder of littlefishcartpress. His first book, A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People, was published in 2011 by Coach House Books. Currently he lives in Montreal.
Dec 15, 2011, 10:45
Interviews
Gabe Foreman Spotlighted
I grew up near a place called Kakabeka Falls, northwest of Lake Superior. I came to Quebec because my partner was going to school here in Montreal. It seemed a good time to move into the city. That was four years ago. We like it here.
Dec 15, 2011, 09:37
Reviews
Gabe Foreman: A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People
This is one of the stranger books of poems I have encountered in a while. In form it is precisely what its title says it is: an alphabetically arranged compendium of various sorts of persons, from adulterers to zookeepers, with cross-references no less (e.g. “For Detectives See Suspects”).
Dec 14, 2011, 19:15
Poems
Hugh Hazelton: 2 Poems
Hugh Hazelton is a writer and translator who lives in Montreal, where he teaches Spanish translation and Latin American civilization at Concordia. His third book of poetry, Antimatter, was published with CD by Broken Jaw Press in 2003; a Spanish version came out with Split Quotation/La Cita Trunca in 2009.
Dec 11, 2011, 09:07
News
Endre Farkas: Community Award
Artists must be engaged in more than just their own work. Without our underpaid or unpaid labour, we would not have the vibrant community that we do.
Dec 9, 2011, 16:33
Commentaries
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Editorials
Editorial 101-10: Year-end Reflection
Another year is ending and as is the wont of such times, a bit of reflection.
Dec 9, 2011, 15:41
News
Marty Gervais Named Windsor Poet Laureate
Marty Gervais is Windsor’s first poet laureate, appointed to herald the achievements of Canada’s automotive capital.
Dec 8, 2011, 19:19
Articles
Your Arts Dollar @ Work
when Poetry Quebec heard Heritage Minister James Moore say that his department planned to spend $28 million dollars of its current budget on 1812 anniversary celebrations, it nearly had a Laura Secord cow.
Dec 8, 2011, 14:06
News
QWF Awards Photos
Photo Album of QWF Awards November 22, 2011 at the Lion D'Or. All photos by Kärla Letelier Girard
Dec 7, 2011, 22:04
News
Quebec Writer's Trust Inducts F.R. Scott
Frances Reginald Scott, better known as F.R. Scott, (1899-1985) poet, lawyer and a strong Canadian was honoured Thursday, October 13, 2011 by The Writers’ Chapel Trust at the Church of St. James The Apostle.
Dec 5, 2011, 21:24
History
Roderick A. Macdonald: F.R. Scott – Lawyer and Legal Academic
Although a man of ideas, F.R. Scott was not of a particularly theoretical cast of mind. He was a man of action. While at Oxford he came under the influence of British progressives such as Bertrand Russell, R.H. Tawney and H.G. Wells. These thinkers animated his politics and liberated his poetry.
Dec 4, 2011, 09:27
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