Readings by Betts & Lynes + holiday party with door prizes!

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ROBERT PRIEST, THE RECIPE, SOBOL & LAVERY

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An Evening of Poetry & Music with Robert Priest, The Recipe, John Sobol & John Lavery

Bywords Fall Reading, Sunday, November 21, 2010

You are invited to the launch of the fall edition of the Bywords Quarterly Journal to take place at 5pm on Sunday, November 21, 2010 as part of the Dusty Owl Reading Series, Swizzles, 246-B Queen St.
Music by Kevin Grant and poetry readings by Frances Boyle, Reid Cooper, Marilyn Irwin and rob mclennan.
Followed by the Dusty Owl's Open Mic.

Contact info: amanda at bywords dot ca

Cover photo by Jayni Bloch

Bywords thanks the City of Ottawa for funding us again this year.

A reminder that we are always looking for poetry by former and current Ottawa residents, students and workers. Deadlines are the 15th of the month.
Go to http://www.bywords.ca/ and click on guidelines for further information.

The next issue of Bywords.ca comes out November 15.

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Lisa Robertson & Jeramy Dodds in The A B Series

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Transparency Machine with Louis Cabri

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Bywords' 2010 John Newlove Poetry Award

Bywords' 2010 John Newlove Poetry Award Reading
at the Ottawa International Writers Festival
Southminister United Church, 15 Aylmer
Monday, October 25, 2010, 6:30 pm- a free event
contact: amanda@bywords.ca

Launch of "The Glass Jaw" by Marcus McCann, the recipient of the 2009 John Newlove Poetry Award. With readings by this year's honourable mentions and award recipient to be announced at the reading, and music by the Companionship Registry.

"This year’s winner of the John Newlove Poetry Award stood out from a strong field of finalists for its rich execution of focalized perception and its economical rendering of character through the use of terse, gritty idiom." Jason Camlot, 2010 Bywords John Newlove Poetry Award Judge

The annual John Newlove Poetry award, launched in the fall of 2004, commemorates the honest, poignant and well-written poetry of John Newlove, an Ottawa resident for almost twenty years and poet who died in 2003.

Transparency Machine with Louis Cabri

A B SERIES PRESENTS

a homecoming edition of 

THE TRANSPARENCY MACHINE

with Louis Cabri 

The A B Series is delighted to present a homecoming edition of The Transparency Machine with Louis Cabri. During the late 1980's and early 1990's, Cabri organized the Experimental Writing Group in Ottawa with Rob Manery. They produced literary events that included The Transparency Machine reading series, then held at Gallery 101. Together, they published hole magazine and chapbook series.

The Transparency Machine is an event in which a poet is asked to give a reading from his or her work, and create, for that reading, a textual collage (of quotations and images) through which to talk about poetry. Pre-readings for Louis Cabri's October 30, 2010 Transparency Machine event have been posted to The A B Series web site.

Louis Cabri is author of —that can’t (Nomados) and The Mood Embosser (Coach House Books). He teaches modern and contemporary poetry, literary theory, and creative writing at the University of Windsor. Wrinkle Press recently published his leaflet What is Venice? (illustrated by Tim de Vries). His new book, Poetryworld, is being published this fall by Capilano University Editions.

* SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2010 *

* Doors open 7:00pm *

* Presentation at  7:30pm *

Gallery 101

301 1/2 Bank Street

(top level)

Ottawa, Ontario

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MillAr & Rhodes in The A B Series

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Arc Poetry Annual 2011 launch

Kemp & Kubota in The A B Series

Poster design by Kevin Matthews

On Friday, October 1st, Governor General's Award winning artist, NOBUO KUBOTA, and extraordinary sound poetry performer, PENN KEMP, launch The A B Series' Fourth Season of autumn to spring events. Come and see two solo performances by Canadian masters of sound poetry.

Friday, October 1, 2010

Doors:  7:00pm

Performance:  7:30pm to 9:30pm 

The Mercury Lounge (Upstairs)

$9 admission at the door

Penn Kemp performs at 7:30pm followed by an intermission followed by Nobuo Kubota's performance.

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NOBUO KUBOTA was an original member of the Artists' Jazz Band and of the dynamic improvising orchestra, the CCMC, and was one of the founding members of the Music Gallery. His vocal work is grounded in sound poetry, free jazz improvisation and Buddhist chanting. He has been performing as a solo vocalist locally and in Europe for 25 years. As an extension to his vocal work, he also works with visual sound poetry, exploring the strategy of "intermedia". His recent work, "new calligraphy," is involved with the writing of sonic sound scores. He lives and works in Toronto, Ontario.

Canadian poet, performer and playwright PENN KEMP has published twenty-five books of poetry and drama, had six plays and ten CDs produced as well as a DVD, Canada's first poetry CD-ROM and several award-winning videopoems. She performs in festivals around the world. Her Muse News is renewed monthly on Penn Letters and on Facebook. Penn can also be heard on MySpace and mytown.ca. Penn was the Canada Council Writer-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario for 2009-10. She hosts Gathering Voices on CHRW 94.9 FM, archive on Gathering Voices. Penn will launch Luminous Entrance: a sound opera for climate change action in The A B Series on October 1st. Videos of Penn can be seen at House of Anansi Press and Poetry Visualized.

Bywords Summer Reading

Launch of the summer Bywords Quarterly Journal

with readings by S.J. Atkinson, Stephen de Paul, Dimitra Xidoux and Marcus McCann and music by John Lavery.

Dusty Owl Reading Series

Sunday, July 18, 2010, 5pm

246-B Queen St.

followed by open mic

further info: amanda@bywords.ca

cover photo for the summer BQJ by Brennan Schnell

Richard Truhlar in The A B Series

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Sandra Ridley & Jennifer Londry launch books in Ottawa's Plan 99 Reading Series

More images from May 29th's launch here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxmiddle/sets/72157624043042935/

Poets Against the War Protest

ARMS UNFAIR - Ottawa, June 2, 2010, noon till 7 pm

Poets from Montreal and Ottawa will read outside the main gates of Lansdowne Park in Ottawa at noon on Wednesday June 2 to protest the Canadian manufacture and sale of weapons, ammunition and military components. CANSEC is returning to Ottawa City property this spring because last year a majority on Ottawa City Council shamefully overturned this municipality's 20-year ban on hosting arms trade shows.

Readers include:
Hugh Hazelton
Susan McMaster
Jorge Etcheverry
Erika White
John Akpata
Gary Townsend
Czandra
Raymond Filip
Claudia Morrison
Jim Joyce
Paul Tulloch
and others

At 1:30 pm the reading will move indoors to Irene's Pub, 885 Bank St. at Clary and from 5-7 pm back to the main Rally for Peace at the gates of the Park.

CANSEC is a significant symbol of Canada's government-subsidized, military-industrial complex, a significant drain on our economy, as it artificially props unsustainable economic sectors. It facilitates rather than discourages wars, invasions, occupations, orchestrated regime changes and human rights abuses.

By opposing the influx of arms promoters, tanks and other war technologies into our local community, we can press for government policies that respect peace, human rights, democracy, and the environment.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Poets Against War and Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) rally

Gerry Shikatani in The A B Series

Internationally recognized text-sound performance artist, Gerry Shikatani enacts a multi-media performance on June 3rd at The Mercury Lounge. Shikatani has published several volumes of poetry, a book of fiction as well as writings on gastronomy and travel. He has been publishing and exhibiting visual poetry for decades.

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Bywords Spring Reading-Sunday May 16, 5pm

at the Dusty Owl Reading Series, Swizzles, 246-B Queen St. featuring poetry by contributors to the spring Bywords Quarterly Journal: Emily Falvey, Winter Fedyk, Neal Freeland, Seymour Mayne, rob mclennan, Zoran Todorovic and Asoka Weerasinghe with the music of the Companionship Registry.

Followed by the Dusty Owl Open Mic & Object of Desire competition.

cover photo by Gatineau photographer Alain Lacharite.

Natalie Zina Walschots reads in The A B Series (May 7, 2010)

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Sonnet L’Abbé in The A B Series

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Rest Cure by Sandra Ridley (Apt. 9 Press, 2009)

to begin, a small word about Apt. 9 Press. so far there have been 7 limited edition chapbooks: 6 poetry and 1 fiction; 6 from Ottawa, 1 from Toronto. the quality of the production is excellent: stitched binding, fine paper, cellophane wrapped for the collector. the offerings have been eclectic and representative of the skill and creativity of Ottawa (and a Toronto) writers.

what i want when i read poetry is to be spellbound by images and sound. Rest Cure accomplishes this for me. in minimal and carefully chosen language, Ridley mesmerizes, evoking the character of a poorly woman with language that is reminiscent of a bygone era. each poem pays heed to the senses; when necessary, Ridley troubles syntax , but not in a heavy-handed way, just wee nudges that slow down the momentum. lines are built and broken based on rhythm, image, sound. Ridley has given us mood, tone and enough exquisite detail to allow us to be compelled by this character, but she hasn’t gone overboard. she’s given us space to fill in for ourselves. this is an excerpt from a longer manuscript called Post-Apothecary. Rest Cure satisfies like a curative elixir, yet leaves us craving another draught.

i.
Before running on nightshade & wormwood in a topiary maze.

Before hawthorn punctures her arm : poison tipped.

Before a peck of stones, she handpicks or pockets,
she is camphor-doused
& blinded
by a fold of wool : wet & held tight to her eyes.

Before his screen & clips & the red light & darkening, his hands pressed
forward
to his switchboard & mirror : apparatus of the in-out & charged.

Before her fluoroscopic diapositive &
the smell of two kinds of heat.

Nothing left hidden in her body.

Before & after, there is only this : four corners to a room
& the others pounding at the door.