Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics hits bookstores in just a couple of weeks. To tide you over during the wait, we've posted a generous excerpt of the book and a great selection of audio files. Click here to listen to the poets read pieces from the anthology or download the excerpt (which includes the editors' introduction and an interview with Nicole Brossard) attached below.
Issue 37 of Jacket features an extensive conversation between Rachel Zolf (Human Resources) and Joel Bettridge about the accelerated pace of Zolf's reading style, her work-in-progress, The Neighbour Procedure, and a great deal more.
Here is a taste from the beginning of the interview:
Recent dispatches from poetry bloggers about San Francisco's Small Press Traffic showcase of the Canadian avant-garde, featuring Christian Bök (Eunoia, Crystallography) and Rachel Zolf (Human Resources), marvel at the 'etymological efflorescence' and 'sheer performativity' of the reading.
The Stentor (of Lake Forest College, Illinois) interviewed English and Music students after a performance by visiting artist Christian Bök of Eunoia and his sound poetry. It is interesting to see how Bök's work polarized the audience along certain lines, into certain aesthetic camps informed by contrasting values:
Xtra!'s Alice Lawlor interviews Rachel Zolf about her attempt to bring the hidden codes of 'plain language' to the surface in Human Resources, poetry's capacity to change the way we think and the challenges facing queer poets and queer employees.
Coach House will, as of February 14, offer free digital downloads with the purchase of any print edition (provided, of course, the book currently exists in e-format). You buy one of our print books, the electronic book is yours for the taking.
Sounds great, but how does it work? One of two ways:
Coach House founder and master printer Stan Bevington is this year’s recipient of the Robert R. Reid lifetime achievement award for excellence in book art. The award is given annually by the Alcuin Society, a non-profit dedicated to preserving and celebrating Canadian contributions to print culture.
Previous Robert R. Reid recipients include former Coach House typesetter and designer Glenn Goluska.
In a two-part interview with Coach House founder and master printer Stan Bevington, Nigel Beale, from the Biblio File podcast, delves into the intriguing combination of factors that inspired Bevington's passion for print culture and took Coach House to the forefront of Canadian book design.
The interview is both a journey through the history of technologies and typefaces, as well as an advice manual for collectors seeking rare pieces of Canadiana.
