Writers Read looks back at hosting Tanya Tagaq in October, 2013. That evening, a first-come-first-serve audience crammed into a conference room in Concordia’s Henry F. Hall to witness the unique line-up of throat singer, Tanya Tagaq, experimental poet, Christian Bök, and composer/performance artist, Jaap Blonk. Seating became a competitive event as many people were turned … Continue reading From the Archive: Tanya Tagaq
Bewitched by Broadbent
Writers Read and Concordia University welcome Lisa Robertson and Laura Broadbent tonight at 7pm, in the York Amphitheatre, EV 1.605, 1515 Rue St. Catherine Readers first shook hands with Laura Broadbent through the pages of her remarkable, and strikingly titled book, Oh There You Are I Can't See You Is It Raining? (Snare Books, 2012). … Continue reading Bewitched by Broadbent
How Poems Work: “The Stricture” by Lisa Robertson
From Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip. ‘The 69 heads of Messerschmidt cast in lead are not heaven.’ ‘The magnetic cures of Mesmer on the plastic soul are more difficult to characterize.’ ‘The heavens of Flanders are like textile in lustrousness – a bridal textile.’ ‘We see the classic theme of a woman suffering, with pearl- … Continue reading How Poems Work: “The Stricture” by Lisa Robertson
MARATHON READING OF LISA ROBERTSON’S DEBBIE: AN EPIC
Debbie: An Epic will be performed in its entirety on Friday, October 21st in LB 671.05 at Concordia University's LB building from 2 PM - 5 PM. Stop by anytime to listen or join in.
Submission Call, Off the Page Festival: A Haunting
We have seen ghosts—in the flickering of light bulbs, of the body, and in the persisting reverberations of history. We hear them with our mouths and pens; we write them into memory. Who are they? Do they hear us? What do they know? “A Haunting” will address the question of what it means to occupy … Continue reading Submission Call, Off the Page Festival: A Haunting
Submission Call, Off the Page Festival: A Literary Wake
Are you, or is someone you know, a writer living in or near Montreal and looking to read work to an audience? Would you like to know what that work would sound like as re-imagined by a live band? Learn more and apply to perform here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeWJ5mQgUWF-wRJPeV84xBUx0RnjB-oRQDYHKhQ98YOpoo1Tw/viewform About the event: “What Remains: A Literary Wake” … Continue reading Submission Call, Off the Page Festival: A Literary Wake
Tonight: Phinder Dulai Reads
Phinder Dulai, Tuesday October 11, 7pm, LB 6.646, 1400 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W. “Combined rhythmic discipline and a wide descriptive palette, wielded by a talented composer of word images; this would be the definition of anyone’s preferred reading. These essential elements are richly present in dream / arteries … While a pointed, heartfelt and lyrical precis … Continue reading Tonight: Phinder Dulai Reads
Angular & Crabwise: a Reading with McKay and Dodds
Join Writers Read on Friday October 7th at 2pm (MB 2.130, 1450 Rue Guy) for our first event of the season, as we host Don McKay and Jeramy Dodds, two equally original poets, for a reading and discussion about writing poetry, winning poetry prizes, and speaking in the voices of Old Icelandic, bird songs, and … Continue reading Angular & Crabwise: a Reading with McKay and Dodds
Don McKay’s “Fridge Nocturne”
In “Fridge Nocturne”, a short poem near the beginning of Don McKay’s selected poems, the sleepless poet lies listening to the sound of his fridge, ‘the old/armless weeping willow of the kitchen’. The fridge’s “Humble murmur” brings to his mind several distant rivers–“the Saugeen, the Goulais/the Raisin”. The permeability of the border between the domestic … Continue reading Don McKay’s “Fridge Nocturne”
Jeramy Dodds
MOORHEN The tubas are full of fog and fallen thoroughbreds. There are no dogs near the dentist’s office due to the pitch of the drills. A poem is meant to replace what the olfactory erased. But it always comes out like a Gilbert-without- Sullivan song. In the birdbath my reflection sprains with each plop of … Continue reading Jeramy Dodds
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