Framework 2016 : Monty Reid, Pearl Pirie, etc.

Framework: Words on the Land is proud to announce its 2016 roster of writers:

Natale Ghent, Katherine Graham, John K. Grande, Helen Humphreys, Jonathan Kaplansky,  Monty Reid, Sandra Ridley, John Steffler, Alissa York, and  Pearl Pirie.
 
This summer, over the course of a late August weekend, ten writers will find themselves in the forest at Fieldwork near Perth, Ontario.

These writers will be presented with a simple wooden frame installed at their site - intended to suggest rather than proscribe perspective. For some, their frames may briefly supplant the computer screen as a form of illumination.  For others, the frame may provide a welcome focal point or a springboard for inspiration.

What they write from their designated sites will be read to a public audience from the intimate loft-space of a barn at Fieldwork on Sunday, August 21st at 3pm. 

Framework 2015 – our inaugural event - was by all accounts a resounding pleasure for both writers and audience members. Not a single intrepid writer came screaming out of the woods.  One writer even set up a bush cocktail bar at his site and wrote about it.  The public reading and discussion was captivating.  The writing was first class. Authors sold books. The weather was glorious. Framework now has a reputation to live up to.

Join ten writers this August 21 as they read from their weekend’s creative output and reflect on the experience of writing on the land.    

Tickets are limited and only available in advance through the OIWF. So be sure to purchase them early!
Fieldwork is very pleased to be presenting this event once again in partnership with the Ottawa International Writers Festival.

Since 2008 Fieldwork has presented unique site-responsive art installations in and around a farm field and forest. Both established and emerging visual artists have been featured.  Fieldwork endeavors to cultivate connections between people, art and nature and to encourage a wide-ranging pursuit of artistic expression that is rooted in the land.   Framework: Words on the Land is Fieldwork's first offspring and was designed to lure literature into the creative mix of their programs.

For further information on the project, and for ticket availability/purchase, click here.

 

The Factory Reading Series: Quartermain, jarvis + Reid, September 1, 2016

span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:
The Factory Reading Series:

Meredith Quartermain (Vancouver)
jenna jarvis (Ottawa)
+ Monty Reid (Ottawa)

lovingly hosted by rob mclennan
Thursday, September 1, 2016
doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm
The Carleton Tavern,
223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale; upstairs)

Meredith Quartermain’s second novel, U Girl, will be published by Talonbooks Aug/Sept 2016. She is also the author of I, Bartleby: short stories; Recipes from the Red Planet (finalist for a BC Book Award (Fiction)); Nightmarker (finalist for a Vancouver Book Award); Rupert's Land: a novel; and Vancouver Walking (winner of a BC Book Award (Poetry)).

jenna jarvis is a poet and a barista. her writing has appeared in puritan magazine and keep this bag away from children, as well as in various zines and microblogs, including a recent above/ground press broadside.

Monty Reid [pictured] was born in Saskatchewan, worked for many years in Alberta, BC and Quebec, and now lives in Ottawa.  His Meditatio Placentae was published by Brick Books in 2016.  Previous books include Garden (Chaudiere), The Luskville Reductions (Brick), and CrawlSpace (Anansi) as well as chapbooks such as Kissing Bug (Phafours), Moan Coach (above/ground) and Site Conditions (Apt 9).  His frequently-modified A Gran Zoo remains forthcoming from BuschekBooks and his current project, Intelligence, is nearing completion.  He has won Alberta’s Stephansson Award for Poetry on three occasions, the Lampman Award, two national magazine awards, and is a 3-time nominee for the Governor-General’s Award.  He is currently the Managing Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine and Festival Director at VerseFest, Ottawa’s international poetry festival.

Chris Turnbull at Coldfront

Chaudiere author Chris Turnbull has some new work online at Coldfront. And of course, her continua can be ordered directly, here.

Touch the Donkey : Amanda Earl interview,

Chaudiere author Amanda Earl was interviewed recently over at Touch the Donkey.

Brick Books : John Newlove presented by Shazia Hafiz Ramji

Vancouver poet and editor Shazia Hafiz Ramji was good enough to do a piece on the late poet John Newlove's work for Brick Books' Celebration of Canadian Poetry. Thanks much! This is actually the second piece on the site on Newlove's work, after an earlier piece by Ottawa writer Elizabeth Hay. And of course, copies of A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove (Chaudiere Books, 2007) is still very much available, and can be ordered directly, here.