Sharon McCartney's book launch

Using weightlifting as a metaphor to explore the poet’s inner world and her romantic attachments, McCartney both reinforces and undermines the transcendence of love.

So isn't it fitting that she should launch her poetry collection
at a Crossfit?

Saturday May 25th Launch @4pm.
Crossfit Fredericton
659 Queen Street (behind Lord Beaverbrook Hotel)
Fredericton, New Brunswick

Tightrope Books and Biblioasis launch Muse

I will be launching Muse Tuesday May 28th at 7pm at Biblioasis bookstore. All are welcome, unless you heckle—then please stay home.

Muse explores the concepts of influence, creativity, and gender by evoking the tragic figure of Elizabeth Siddal. As a model, then pupil, she married the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and although an artist and poet in her own right, Siddal is best known as a Victorian muse and the inspiration for her husband’s paintings. In sensual and evocative language, Kresan holds nothing back, shifting voices and perspectives, and encompassing a wide range of emotions—from Siddal’s loss and heartbreak over her stillborn daughter to the poet’s lighthearted reproach of Hunt’s depiction of The Lady of Shalott. Compelling and inventive, Muse is a welcome debut.

“Kresan turns Robert Graves’ well-known words—“Woman is muse or she is nothing”—inside out and upside down. If Siddal has been seen as a Victorian supermodel, all surface and beauty, then Kresan complicates the perceptions, painting over pre-conceived notions, and refocusing attentions... [she] takes us on delightfully imaginative flights of fancy where her subject interacts with Marilyn Monroe, Sylvia Plath, Robert Graves and even the author herself.” —Shawna Lemay

“In her ambitious debut, Dawn Kresan turns a feminist legend inside out with ventriloquizing poems that voice Elizabeth Siddal’s anxieties and griefs so fiercely she seems to be writing for her own life.”  —Carmine Starnino

“An absolute delight to lovers of ekphrasis, the pre-Raphaelites, and those interested in reclaiming the historical lives of often self-doubting, self-sacrificing and side-lined women. These voluptuous poems hum with invention, wit, and spot-on imagery, announcing the arrival of an accomplished poet.” —Ruth Roach Pierson

Detour to Kingsville

rEvolution gallery + studio presents
a reading from Detours: An Anthology of Poets from Windsor & Essex County

Readers include: Alex Gayowksy, Marty Gervais, Mary Ann Mulhern,
Stephen Pender, Robert Earl Stewart


THURSDAY MAY 16th, 7pm
5B Main Street East.
Kingsville, ON.
Tel: 519-800-6923

Reading at the Windsor Public Library

Celebrate two anthologies celebrating local writers and themes. April 30th at the Windsor Central Public Library at 7pm.

Pics from the Detours launch

Thanks to photographers Aimee Parent and Robert Earl Stewart.

Raymond Souster Award

Congratulations to John Wall Barger!

"The League of Canadian Poets (LCP) is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2013 Raymond Souster, Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards. Congratulations to the authors for their fine submissions and many thanks to the jurors for their hard work on this year’s awards."


Winners of these awards will be announced during a special ceremony at the annual LCP Poetry Fest and Conference to be held at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel in downtown Toronto on June 8, 2013.

Raymond Souster Award:
The Raymond Souster Award is given for a book of poetry by a League of Canadian Poets member published in the preceding year. The award honours the late Raymond Souster, an early founder of the League of Canadian Poets. The award carries a $1,000 prize.

Hummingbird by John Wall Barger (Palimpsest Press)
the Flicker tree: Okanagan Poems by Nancy Holmes (Ronsdale Press)
Wayworn Wooden Floors by Mark Lavorato (The Porcupine’s Quill)
Between Dusk and Night by Emily McGiffin (Brick Books)
The New Measures by A.F. Moritz (House of Anansi Press Inc.)
no ordinary place by Pamela Porter (Ronsdale Press)

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April Readings

Thursday, April 4, 2013 @7:00 p.m.

Kate Briad with Sandy Shreve and Carole Glasser Langille.
People's Co-Op Bookstore.
1391 Commercial Drive
Vancouver, BC.

Saturday, April 6, 2013 @ 1pm.
Kate Braid with Sandy Shreve and Carole Glasser Langille
Talisman Books & Gallery, Driftwood Centre. 

Pender Island, BC.

Wednesday April 17th @7pm
Book Launch of Detours Anthology
Biblioasis. 1520 Wyandotte St. East.
Windsor, ON.

Saturday April 20, 2013
Gail Sidonie Sobat at the Calgary Young Writers' Conference
Calgary, AB

Tuesday April 30th @7pm
Detours readings with Whisky Sour City (Black Moss Press)
Hosted by Marty Gervais
Windsor Public Library. 850 Ouellette Ave.
Windsor, ON.