Tom Walmsley’s new play, The Nun’s Vacation, opens on March 23 in Toronto, and runs until April 8. The third Walmsley play to be produced by Doghouse Riley, The Nun’s Vacation will be performed at the Toronto Free Gallery at 1277 Bloor West. The comedy — about sex and religion — features Glen Matthews, Stephen Chambers, and [...]
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Leigh Nash reads from Goodbye, Ukulele
Here is a fond memory of Leigh Nash dropping by the dear old Mansfield office to read from her poetry collection Goodbye, Ukulele. As Leigh shares her birthday with St. Patrick’s day, remember to raise a glass of green beer in her honour.
Book review: The Reinvention of the Human Hand
Reviewed by Peter Norman The Reinvention of the Human Hand Paul Vermeersch McClelland & Stewart, 2010 88 pages, $18.99 Created more than 17,000 years ago, the cave paintings at Lascaux depict hundreds of animals. The purpose of the images is unknown: their significance may have been religious or shamanistic, or possibly scientific [...]
Marko Sijan reads from Mongrel
Mansfield Press is sneaking into Montreal tonight for its third time in as many years, and launching new titles by Marko Sijan, Rishma Dunlop, Lillian Necakov, George Bowering, and Carey Toane. You’ll hear great readings by Sijan, Dunlop, and Toane and Gillian Sze will be our special guest reader. Hosted by Mansfield editor Stuart Ross, the place [...]
Rishma Dunlop on writing “Paris”
In this video for the Exile Writers Series Rishma Dunlop talks about writing the poem “Paris,” featured in her just released book Lover Through Departure, New and Selected Poems.
Mammoth
Reviewed by Spencer Gordon Mammoth Larissa Andrusyshyn DC Books, 2010 88 pages, $16.95 It’s not difficult to explain the enduring fascination of Gunther von Hagen’s Body Worlds exhibits. Using a technique called Plastination—a strange, exciting innovation in the field of anatomical preservation—the good scientist has erected a gallery of authentic human specimens arranged in lifelike [...]
A History of my Body
by Michael Dennis Old wives would have you believe that your hair comes from your mother’s side of the family. Most of the men on my mother’s side of the family are bald. I’m fifty-two years old and still have a mostly full head of hair. It’s grey, almost white, with a few traces of [...]
“But Never in this World is Odysseus Dead”: On David W. McFadden
by Alessandro Porco Why Are You So Long and Sweet? Collected Long Poems of David W. Mcfadden David W. McFadden Insomniac Press, 2010 240 pages, $19.95 You should be able to see a poet’s mind turning over, you should be able to know what he is thinking at all times … – The Poet’s Progress [...]
Reviewed by Spencer Gordon Coming Ashore on Fire Michael Dennis Burnt Wine Press, 2009 135 pages, $16
Reviewed by Spencer Gordon Coming Ashore on Fire Michael Dennis Burnt Wine Press, 2009 135 pages, $16 Now these are poems I could get into, says my partner, who’s been reading Michael Dennis’s latest collection while I’ve been making dinner. They’re direct, easy to understand, emotional, she continues. They make me feel something, but it’s [...]
