Upcoming Launches
October 12th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
For those of you in the area(s), I’ll be launching my debut collection Never More There, both on the Avalon and in Central, in the next week or so. Books and signing will be available and I’ll also be doing a reading as well. Should be a great evening hope you can make it.
Here is a break down of locations and times:
St. John’s Launch (Monday, Oct 19)
The Ship Inn,
265 Duckworth Street
8:00pm-9:30pm
Gander Launch (Wednesday, Oct 21)
Joseph R. Smallwood Arts and Culture Centre Art Gallery
7:30pm-9:00pm
Recent Interview
October 4th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
Rob McLennan has just posted a recent interview he’s conducted with me about my take on writing, at least at this stage of my career. It’s from the series of interviews called 12 or 20 questions. It’s well worth checking out as he updates a new interview a couple times a week at least; it’s a great way to be introduced to new writers as well.
“On Hearing Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’ Used To Sell Ford Cars”
October 3rd, 2009 § Leave a Comment
A bit of fun, nothing too serious.
ON HEARING FROST’S “THE ROAD NOT TAKEN” USED TO SELL FORD CARS
Surprised I am a poem is used
to raise the capitalist machine,
and find it too can take a cruise
where “no step had trodden black” the scene.
Recession this, Recession that,
they’ll ever fight it how they can:
it’s kind of clever, you must admit,
to use what’s most American.
What would the poet say to see
his artwork thrifted in this way,
not laying where it used to be
in old texts books night and day?
There’s something in it I suppose:
a poem’s a road not many know.
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