Yearly Archives: 2006

Good spreads

Mar 17

I used to use Epicurious a lot, until they started littering their site with pop-up ads, including the kind that crawl up your screen till you click them away. But I recently revisited them and either my pop-up blocker works … Continue reading →

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Music ‘n poetry

Mar 16

Just received my brochure for the Wired Writing Studio which starts with the Banff Centre residency October 2-14, 2006. A wonderful thing is Wired. Robert Hilles and Marilyn Dumont will be excellent poetry resources. Fred Stenson runs a comradely ship, … Continue reading →

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Sonnets a-gogo

Mar 15

Double-barrelled week for me, this. I missed last week’s class on sonnets and am plunging in to the one on oulipo. Thought I’d catch up on last week by reading the always readable Don Paterson‘s introduction to his anthology, 101 … Continue reading →

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Collisions with poems

Mar 14

Here’s another quote from the Don’t Ask Me What I Mean anthology: “The poet only speaks one way. He hears nothing back. His words as he utters them are not conditioned by a real ear replying from the other side… … Continue reading →

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Pick-up sticks & nationalism in poetry

Mar 13

Phew, so much everything to get back to after Austin. My millions of things to do are scattered twig-like all over the floor of my life. Much thinking involved, very tiring. One meantime item is news from my UK correspondent … Continue reading →

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