I'm pleased to announce that a new Canadian Poetry Anthology, with works from myself and dear poet-friends Becky Alexander, April Bulmer, Lenny Everson, Katherine L. Gordon, Andreas Gripp, Wendy Visser and S.J. White , will be appearing shortly. These are remarkable individuals most of whom I have come to know and esteem over the past decade or so. A book launch is scheduled for spring. I'd like to congratulate Stella Mazur Preda for another masterful Serengeti publication. Serengeti has since its inception in the early 1990s grown almost legendary among poets in Ontario.
Details of both book publication and launch are to follow.
3 comments:
Congratulations, Conrad! I can't wait to see a copy. All these names—except Becky Alexander, Kathering L. Gordan, Andreas Gripp, and you of course—are new to me....
Thanks, Joseph
as you know, those of us in Canada who find the Mlinko-style poetry of the world as abhorrent as you have liked to call ourselves the People's Poetry (for which Chris Faiers is really our leading spokesperson. There are enough of us here (Faiers, Andreas Gripp, Katherine Gordon, James Deahl, etc) to form a formidable opposition to the 'bastard offspring' of what was the L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E infiltration (mainly via Kootenay in the 80s & Frank Davey's "Open Letter"). This is where servile imitation has landed Canadian poetry today!
My own little 'Erland Lee' poetry readings in June is meant to be part of a larger network of grassroots People Poetry poetry events. I can assure you that in the near future I will articulate People's Poetry in book form, paying especial attention to the people I consider its greatest contemporary practitioners: Katherine L.Gordon, Andreas Gripp, April Bulmer, Chris Faiers and some others.
Thanks for this, Conrad. Cheers.
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