[Originally published at Ottawa Poetry Newsletter, 26 November 2011] Notes From A Cartywheel Christine McNair Ottawa: AngelHousePress, November 2011 A cartwheel is a strange thing. It implies movement but also return. It is cyclical. It is repetition with change. One arrives somewhere familiar but not quite the same as where one started. The cartwheel, orContinue reading “Review: Notes from a Cartywheel by Christine McNair”
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Review: Odourless Press (Ottawa ON): Ladouceur, Blackman, Sinaee
[Originally published at Ottawa Poetry Newsletter, 1 November 2011] Odourless Press (Ottawa ON) appeared without ceremony in August 2011. The press identifies itself as “a small Ottawa collective.” It has an active web presence, publishing poems near-daily on its blog as well as hosting poetry podcast contentfrom local readings. Odourless chapbooks are single pages, foldedContinue reading “Review: Odourless Press (Ottawa ON): Ladouceur, Blackman, Sinaee”
Review: Lime Kiln Quay Road by Ben Ladouceur
[Originally published at Ottawa Poetry Newsletter, 24 May 2011] Lime Kiln Quay Road Ben Ladouceur Ottawa: above/ground press, May 2011. Ben Ladouceur has had a wonderful nine months since returning to Ottawa following a year spent working in Suffolk, England. He gave a widely heralded reading on the opening night of Versefest alongside Michael Dennis,Continue reading “Review: Lime Kiln Quay Road by Ben Ladouceur”
Review: Impossible Books (The Carleton Installment) by Stephen Brockwell
[Originally published at Ottawa Poetry Newsletter, 24 May 2011] Impossible Books (the Carleton Installment) Stephen Brockwell Ottawa: above/ground press, August 2010. Stephen Brockwell’s “Impossible Books project” (this above/ground book is its second installment) is an ongoing series of individual poems that are presented as excerpts from imagined “impossible” books. The impossible books of this installmentContinue reading “Review: Impossible Books (The Carleton Installment) by Stephen Brockwell”
Northern Comfort (Commoners’ Press: Ottawa, 1973)
[Originally published at Ottawa Poetry Newsletter, 23 April 2011] In November 2010, I published a bibliography of William Hawkins through my own Apt. 9 Press. In my brief introductory note, I wrote “this bibliography will likely be out of date upon the day of its publication. I imagine, and I hope, that once it isContinue reading “Northern Comfort (Commoners’ Press: Ottawa, 1973)”
Some Notes on the Print History of William Hawkins’ Ottawa Poems
[Originally published at Ottawa Poetry Newsletter, 14 May 2009] “Give this meaning as you may, or must,” William Hawkins, #27 (from Ottawa Poems) I’m a newcomer to Ottawa poetry, but by no means a newcomer to Ottawa. I was born here, and raised, and am presently on the verge of completing my “higher” education inContinue reading “Some Notes on the Print History of William Hawkins’ Ottawa Poems”
Cameron Anstee 