Write On Ottawa: The Master of the apt and unexpected
Write On Ottawa: Great poems and lousy junk
Poetry Week: House Dreams’ journey of self-discovery
Write On Ottawa: Frances Boyle’s sound and light show
Write On Ottawa: Songs of science in Henry Beissel’s Fugitive Horizons
Write On Ottawa: Garden plants things deep in the brain
Write On Ottawa: Bywords offers an all-you-can-eat buffet of local poetry chapbooks
What’s a chapbook? I hear that a lot. That’s because I’m trying to write one. The straight answer is: Something a touch shy of a book, usually a stapled booklet with 24 pages or fewer. The more inspired thing is to call it an appetizer: A work that can be consumed at one sitting, provides […]
Write On Ottawa: Turning a soldier’s experience in Afghanistan into moving poetry
Ottawa author Kanina Dawson’s poetry collection Masham Means Evening, which is based on her experiences as a master corporal with the Canadian military in Afghanistan, doesn’t invite a tepid response. “Dawson grabs the reader full frontal and screams – here it is, the face of war, have a bite.” That’s how poet Michael Dennis describes it. Tepid? Not so […]