Vancouver's alternative online newsweekly, Vancouver Weekly assigned Arman Kazemi to review Jonathan Ball's latest poetry collection, The Politics of Knives, and declared it 'The Best Movie I Have Ever Read.'
Jen Currin, author of The Inquisition Yours and Hagiography reads with Griffin-winning poet Ken Babstock (Methodist Hatchet, Airstream Land Yacht) at Vancouver's Play Chthonics Series on Wednesday, February 27.
Tracy Sherlock of the Vancouver Sun spoke to Tamara Faith Berger about her novel Maidenhead while the author was in town for the Incite Reading Series. In their interview, Berger talks about her 'hardcore coming-of-age tale' and her teenage interest in the work of V.C. Andrews and Judy Blume.
On Thursday, May 5, the UBC Robson Reading Series proudly presents readings from Alan Reed and Helen Guri. Alan Reed's novel, Isobel and Emile is a hypnotizing story what comes after a love story.
Jon Paul Fiorentino, author of such humorous fiction as Stripmalling and such virtuoso poetry as Indexical Elegies visits Vancouver for a reading with the Kootenay School of Writing. He reads with Vancouver writer Kevin Spenst.
Kootenay School of Writers Reading Series
Readings by Jon Paul Fiorentino and Kevin Spenst
W2 Culture and Media House
112 West Hastings, 3rd Floor
8 p.m., $3 to $5 (sliding scale)
The Kootenay School of Writing presents a night of four amazing writers in the experimental mode, featuring readings from Gail Scott (The Obituary), Kate Eichhorn (Prismatic Publics, ed., Found), Angela Carr (Ropewalk) and Sarah Dowling (Security Posture),
A Kootenay School of Writing event
Readings by Gail Scott, Kate Eichhorn, Angela Carr and Sarah Dowling
Jen Currin launches her brand-new collection, The Inquisition Yours, in Vancouver with a big event at Cafe Montmartre on March 27, featuring readers and bands all night.
Rachel Zolf (Neighbour Procedure) leads a seminar as part of 'Negotiating the Social Bond of Poetics,' a two-part event presented by the Kootenay School of Writing. Following her reading on the 19th, Zolf leads an afternoon seminar at W2 Culture + Media House (112 West Hastings, 3rd Floor).
Negotiating the Social Bond of Poetics
a seminar led by Rachel Zolf
presented by the Kootenay School of Writing
Saturday, March 20, 2010
W2 Culture + Media House
Rachel Zolf reads from her brand-new poetry collection, Neighbour Procedure, as part of 'Negotiating the Social Bond of Poetics,' a two-part seminar presented by the Kootenay School of Writing. The first part is a reading by Zolf at W2 Culture + Media House (112 West Hastings, 3rd Floor). A seminar follows on the 20th.
Negotiating the Social Bond of Poetics
a reading by Rachel Zolf
presented by the Kootenay School of Writing
Friday, March 19, 2010
June is LGBTQ Pride Month, and you know Coach House (unlike some mayors) is keen to celebrate that fact. Coach House has published some of Canada's finest queer writers for decades, but our June Marriage Equality Sale is a little bit different. Instead of focusing on our gay and lesbian writers, we're celebrating marriage equality.
June 8, 2013 — Coach House Printing was the first subject of a 'Toronto, Brought to Light,' a new feature in the Toronto section of the weekend Globe and Mail. Photographer Fred Lum documented our presses with some impressive equipment of his own, including a Hasselblad 6x6 camera (take that, Instagram!).
