PAUL VERMEERSCH

Of course, if you want the book, you should order ...

2012-05-16T18:04:28.480-04:00

Of course, if you want the book, you should order from your local, independent bookseller.

My pleasure. Jonathan Cape has recently published ...

2012-05-13T08:32:12.523-04:00

My pleasure. Jonathan Cape has recently published The Collected Poems of Peter Redgrove. It's a must-have.

thanks for this!

2012-05-12T21:46:55.973-04:00

thanks for this!

Hi Martin, the project was finished and a book was...

2012-03-09T08:41:02.342-05:00

Hi Martin, the project was finished and a book was printed. I don't know why the website is down, but I haven't maintained contact with organizers. Perhaps you can find a copy of the finished book through ABE?

Hi, I read some pages of the project online !n 200...

2012-03-08T09:29:40.745-05:00

Hi, I read some pages of the project online !n 2009 and was not quick enough to keep some trace in a safe place - all links are dead. Did you give up completely, why ?
Even the book ? I found this very encouraging and the disappointment is equally huge.

Best regards
Martin

Murder In The Dark,(Anansi) prose poems by Margare...

2012-02-27T13:51:51.228-05:00

Murder In The Dark,(Anansi) prose poems by Margaret Atwood, brilliant observations and language and we expect no less. Also, the 1984 G.G., Pat Lowther AND Gerald Lampert award-winning book from M&S, Celestial Navigation by Paulette Jiles. Check out 'Night Flight to Attiwapiskat' and other poems which have one hovering amongst the stars, seeing the cold salt coast and landing among earthmen, speaking Cree. Amazing energy and intellect in both these books. Time we had more such. Life is too short for limpid sighing stuff.

Reporting from Night by Kateri Lanthier (Iguana Bo...

2012-02-04T23:25:44.289-05:00

Reporting from Night by Kateri Lanthier (Iguana Books, 2011). The natural world is everywhere present in these poems in surprising and vivid ways, rendered in precise and dazzling words and word play: trees, stones, clouds, stars, animals real and unreal. A wonderful new collection that I highly recommend.

a. rawlings Wide slumber for lepidopterists

2012-02-04T17:04:37.005-05:00

a. rawlings Wide slumber for lepidopterists

Hi Pearl, there was no credit information availabl...

2011-12-06T20:13:47.180-05:00

Hi Pearl, there was no credit information available where I sourced this picture. Please back-channel me with information so I can post it. Or, if you wish me to remove the link, let me know.

ah cool. you used my photo. credit is always welco...

2011-12-04T11:18:54.569-05:00

ah cool. you used my photo. credit is always welcome.

How about: Wonderful Centipedes: The Poetry of Tomas Tranströmer by Niklas Schiöler

I enjoyed this, Paul. Why is it that you are scari...

2011-04-24T19:23:16.257-04:00

I enjoyed this, Paul. Why is it that you are scarier in print than you are in person? In this case, I think it's the brief, aphoristic quality of the sentences. It remains an open question in other cases.

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Oertypay!

2011-03-23T14:52:40.978-04:00

Oertypay!

wot?

2011-03-13T18:08:05.094-04:00

wot?

I agree that the essay by Mathew Zapruder strikes ...

2011-02-19T16:29:38.067-05:00

I agree that the essay by Mathew Zapruder strikes some important chords; however, some of it reminds me of American pragmaticism, and the poet trapped in the jail of words. In my aging mind and body I still long for what the American poet Robert Bly called dragon-smoke.But perhaps I am a throwback to another time.

And a few more, including Matthew, on reviewing, m...

2010-09-29T15:14:11.189-04:00

And a few more, including Matthew, on reviewing, many specifically in Canada:

Ken Babstock
Michael Scharf
Vanessa Place
Steven W. Beattie
Marjorie Perloff
Elizabeth Bachinsky
Maureen N. McLane
Christian Bok
Aaron Kunin
Evie Shockley
Matthew Zapruder
Rob Winger
Mark Wallace
Michael Turner
Jonathan Ball
Jennifer Scappettone
Ange Mlinko
Jacob McArthur Mooney
Annie Finch
Gregory Betts
Anselm Berrigan
Ben Friedlander
Emily Warn
Michael Robbins
Eileen Myles
Mitchell Parry
Ron Silliman
Brian Joseph Davis
Stephen Burt
Catherine Daly
Michael Bryson
Daisy Fried
Steve Collis
Jordan Davis

http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/p/on-reviewing.html

ah, beautiful to hear a voice of reason!

2010-08-04T13:31:19.410-04:00

ah, beautiful to hear a voice of reason!

Thank you.

2010-07-30T19:34:06.753-04:00

Thank you.

I love this post Paul. Good stuff.

2010-07-27T18:44:08.363-04:00

I love this post Paul. Good stuff.

Great post! I have this conversation with a lot of...

2010-07-20T21:48:41.622-04:00

Great post! I have this conversation with a lot of poets, and I think it is just a matter of the extremists of each side getting too much coverage and attention.

What a lucky chance for you. Transtromer read in S...

2010-04-14T17:12:17.715-04:00

What a lucky chance for you. Transtromer read in San Jose in the eighties. I will never forget it, and wish I could hear his poems in Swedish!

Soon, Johnny.

2010-03-22T16:28:35.357-04:00

Soon, Johnny.

If the book is out can I get a copy?

2010-03-22T02:32:14.630-04:00

If the book is out can I get a copy?

Fantastic poem Paul.

2010-03-17T08:03:41.270-04:00

Fantastic poem Paul.

Paul, Givver eh... Facebook lite? No more Lexulou...

2010-03-01T16:09:15.620-05:00

Paul, Givver eh...

Facebook lite?
No more Lexulous?
Peen boiler er what?

Sties!