I’ll be at the Toronto Word on the Street Festival this weekend. Come by the ECW Press booth at 11am on Saturday. I’ll be signing books. Come by and say hello!
At other time, I can be found at the booths for either Wolsak and Wynn Publishers or The Ampersand Review.
I am coming to the Kingston WritersFest this Friday, September 19, for two events!
At noon, I'll be doing my "How to Read a Poem" workshop, and at 1:30 I'll be sharing the stage with Callista Markotich and Terese Mason Pierre for a poetry panel called "Projections and Reflections" with host Jason Heroux.
Chris Banks is a poet who always keeps me on my toes. I value his close reading, so this review of NMLCT will be one that I treasure for a long time.
"Honestly, I have not really read a poetry collection like this one. It’s a highly original book.... These spellbinding poems, at once allusive and engaging, are portents, wards against the artificial intelligence and misinformation we find so much of our modern lives are now mired in, but they are also, I think, signposts, maps for finding our way back out, through words, to our genuine selves...
"There is rigour and tension in these 16 line, formally-constrained poems, but also a sharp, restless and original consciousness that is the nucleus of this whole poetry collection. NMLCT encourages us to make new thoughts, new connections, new poems amidst the old abandoned computer code and made-to-sell cheap design work, amidst “the glitches” of background machine noise."
Check out The Woodlot and read the entire review here.
Every writer looks forward to those reviews when the critic really understands what the book is trying to do. Selena Mercuri has done just that in her review of NMLCT in The Seaboard Review of Books. I am grateful. What a wonderful way to start the day!
