Tomorrow, October 4th, Amy Lavender Harris will be discussing her award-winning book Imagining Toronto. This is part of the West Toronto Junction Historical Society. Click here for a link to the Historical Society’s site.
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Carey Toane Reading Tonight!
For those of you in Toronto, don’t miss Carey Toane tonight, Tuesday, October 2, with Greg Betts at the Boneshaker reading series. Carey will be reading from her debut collection, The Crystal Palace, and maybe some new work too! Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/498029960216774
Priscila Uppal garnering much attention for upcoming Summer Sport: Poems
Priscila Uppal recently served as “poet in residence” at the London Summer Olympic Games, working on her upcoming collection, Summer Sport: Poems. She has been interviewed about her experiences and poetry on the radio programs Radio Canada International and CBC Metro Morning; for the newspapers The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star; and a television interview on PBS News […]
John Sewell on Amy Lavender Harris’s Imagining Toronto
We are delighted to discover that John Sewell, the former Mayor of Toronto, author, journalist, and great urban thinker, recently reviewed Amy Lavender Harris’s Imagining Toronto in the pages of the journal Ontario History. Imagining Toronto by Amy Lavender Harris Toronto: Mansfield Press, 2010. 333 pages. $21.95 softcover. ISBN 987-1-894469-39-5 There’s an array of names […]
Holler reviewed in Prairie Fire
The tireless rob mclennan reviews Alice Burdick’s latest in Prairie Fire.
Carey Toane comes to town
Mansfield author Carey Toane will come to Toronto for a reading from her latest book, The Crystal Palace on July 10. She will be appearing with poets Stephanie Bolster and Tomy Bewick. It’s an 8 pm start time at Pauper’s Pub (second floor) 539 Bloor St. West, Toronto. Hope to see you there!
Jaime Forsythe and Alice Burdick on CKCU FM in Ottawa this evening
Listen up tonight at 6:30 pm to Jaime Forsythe and Alice Burdick talking about their new books with Christine McNair on the show Literary Landscape. You’ll find it streaming at CKCUFM.com
Review of Tristan Hughes’ Eye Lake
Reviewed by Alisha Kaplan Eye Lake Tristan Hughes Coach House Books, 2011 208 pages, $19.95 Where the Lost Things Are: A Review of Tristan Hughes’ Eye Lake Eye Lake is Tristan Hughes’ heartbreaking portrait of Crooked River, a declining iron ore town in Northern Ontario, and of a deceptively simple young man weighed […]
LPG an Essential Service to Literary Publishers in Canada
For many years Mansfield Press has relied on the Literary Press Group of Canada to represent our books across the country. Their sales force is second to none and we have always felt grateful for an organization that is committed to literary publishing and enthusiastic about poetry. Now they are in trouble.
Mansfield editor Stuart Ross offers July writing workshops in Ottawa
AFTER JOE BRAINARD A one-hour writing workshop sparked by the literary works of the late and magnificent Joe Brainard, on the occasion of the release of his Collected Writings and the re-release of the legendary Bean Spasms collaboration between Joe, Ron Padgett, and Ted Berrigan.
