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Blogger delves into What Stirs

A recent post on the evocatively-named blog, Organ Spurt, digs deep into the poetics and politics of Margaret Christakos's What Stirs, drawing several comparisons to other writers and movements.

Read on at http://organspurt.blogspot.com/2008/12/what-stirs-uses-procedure-to-better.html.

Michael Blouin featured in Ottawa Xpress

Ottawa Xpress talks to Michael Blouin about the structure of his novel, Chase & Haven:

'The sequence of the book is 'broken into thirds which mirror the passage of a day.' Scenes in the first section take place in mornings, in the second in afternoons and the final third in evenings.

Talk by Margaret Christakos posted on the Agora Review

Read Margaret Christakos's introductory comments to the final gathering of Influency 5, courtesy of the Agora Review: http://www.agorareview.ca/?q=node/165.

Spacing blogs about Coach House AGO show

Spacing's Shawn Micallef blogs about the 'fun and exciting' Coach House Press retrospective at the renovated AGO.

From the post:

'I knew [Coach House] — and people associated with them — were involved in the local and Canadian art scene over the years, but had no idea of the depth until I saw the Coach House show that opened with the reopening of the AGO two weeks ago.

Trent Arthur interviews Jeramy Dodds

Poet Jeramy Dodds speaks to the Arthur (his alma mater, Trent University's paper) about Crabwise to the Hounds ('It is both my oldest work and my newest, due to an unrestrained addiction to editing'), the influence of southern Ontario landscapes on the images in his book and more. But don't get your hopes up -- Dodds saves his writing advice for 'highly-motivated shut-ins or terrorists.'

Concrete Toronto wins Award of Merit at Design Exchange Awards!

Coach House Books and E.R.A. Architects are proud to announce that Concrete Toronto brought home an Award of Merit in the Visual Communications Content & Editorial category at the Design Exchange Awards. Design Exchange is Canada's museum of design.

Three Coach House titles make the Globe 100!

Coach House has three books in the Globe and Mail's top 100 of 2008: Mike Hoolboom's Practical Dreamers, Claudia Dey's Stunt and R. M. Vaughan's Troubled!

Here's what the critics have to say about each title:

Practical Dreamers:

Sina Queyras interviews Gary Barwin

Gary Barwin (Raising Eyebrows, Outside the Hat) is interviewed by Sina Queyras (Lemon Hound) in a new post on her poetry blog. Barwin talks about his rather uncanny visual art and signs off with a complementary poem.

Eye Weekly gleans fun facts from HTO

Eye Weekly brings you a glass half empty vs. glass half full comparison events and facts dotting the history of Toronto's water, all of which have been gleaned from the authoritative HTO: Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers to Low-flow toilets.

Visit the feature here: http://www.eyeweekly.com/features/article/46355.

David McGimpsey 'in residence' at Broken Pencil

David McGimpsey (Sitcom), writer of knee-slapping, rhymed-and-metred poems about such pop culture legends as the Fonz and Mary Tyler Moore, is currently the 'indie artist in residence' at Broken Pencil magazine.

Visit the following link to check out his page: http://www.brokenpencil.com/indieartist/.