Wednesday, 18 December 2024

New wererabbit album: The Nucleus

I have released a new wererabbit album called The Nucleus on Bandcamp. This music was composed alongside a big change in my approach to painting and the writing of my eighth collection of poetry NMLCT (forthcoming from ECW Press in fall 2025), so it's natural that there should be a noticeable change in the sound of my music, as well. The title of the album and a composition from it both take their name from a poem included in my forthcoming book, and I have included that poem on the Bandcamp site. This is a short album, but it's strange and evocative, and I hope you will like it. 




Listen on YouTube.





Sunday, 15 September 2024

I just found this lovely essay about one of my books...

Somehow (HOW?) I missed this essay from 2018 about my book Self-Defence for the Brave and Happy by Margaryta Golovchenko, and reading it now, I am buoyed. It came along just when I needed it, as I am in the final stretch on a new manuscript that builds on the work I did in Self-Defence. I am re-energized! Thank you, Margaryta!



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Monday, 5 August 2024

Painting: what a difference a month makes!

What a difference a month makes! I was working on the "solar error" paintings only a month ago. I still am very happy with them, but I don't need be making them right now. I need to make these new paintings. I need to make the "wrong" paintings.



Visit the "art" section of my site to see more.




Friday, 29 March 2024

Talking about the Griffins with Elamin Abdelmahmoud on CBC's Commotion

Last week I had the opportunity to talk about the exclusion of Canadian poetry books from the Griffin Poetry Prize on a podcast hosted by Elamin Abdelmahmoud for CBC's Commotion. 

You can listen to the conversation we had here.



 

The podcast is also available on Spotify



Sunday, 25 February 2024

My first TV credit as a composer!

The Rogers TV program produced by the Kawartha Land Trust is using my song "Field 4B" from my album wererabbit iv as the intro and outro of their "Celebrating Black Excellence In Conservation" episode! 

Thanks to Dani Couture for setting this up!