Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Ian Whistle : Bad translation


Your image printed on anime-like clothing. New development supporting members such as master data, new deployment, progress situation. Of course, it may be a bit sad. He talked the truth, zooming in and zooming out, so that you can work from celadon, fuchsia pink or blue, yellow and light only after an arbitrary time. As they are, in the tradition of others, translating the problem, according to the artist, try out a small amount of oil at stand near bad Palak.

Friday, December 23, 2016

Elaine Woo : Shades of Gray Noise

Elaine Woo is the author of the poetry collection Cycling with the Dragon, Nightwood Editions, 2014.  She works in many different media including poetry, graphic comics, video, libretto, and non-fiction.  She has been published in Canada, the US, the UK, France, and Hong Kong.


Thursday, December 8, 2016

Gregory Betts : Craven

Gregory Betts is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Boycott (Make Now Books, 2014). He has also published five editions of experimental Canadian writing, and is the author of Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations (University of Toronto Press 2013), the first holistic study of Canadian literary avant-gardism. He is the Curator of the bpNichol.ca Digital Archive and the Artistic Director of the Festival of Readers: St. Catharines. His edition The Space Between Her Lips: The Poetry of Margaret Christakos will be published in April 2017 by Wilfred Laurier University Press.





Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Rob Stuart : pingpong

Rob Stuart was born in Cambridge, England, in 1972 and lives in Surrey with his partner and daughter. His poems and short stories have been published in magazines, newspapers and webzines all over the world including Ink Sweat and Tears, Light, M58, Magma, New Statesman, The Oldie, Otoliths, Popshot, The Spectator, Storgy and The Washington Post. He has also written the screenplays for several award-winning and internationally exhibited short films. His website can be found at www.robstuart.co.uk.


Friday, December 2, 2016

Sacha Archer : from KIM

Sacha Archer is a Canadian writer currently residing in Ontario. He was the recipient of the 2008 P.K. Page Irwin Prize for his poetry and visual art, and in 2010 he was chosen to participate in the Elise Partridge Mentor Program. His work has appeared in journals such as ditch poetry, filling Station, ACTA Victoriana, h&, illiterature, and NōD. He has work forthcoming in Experiment-O, and (parenthetical). His chapbook, Dishwashing Event, Part One: Tianjin, China was published by no press, while Dishwashing Event, Part Two: Ontario, Canada is forthcoming from Puddles of Sky Press.


Sunday, November 27, 2016

Elaine Woo : Links artistic

Elaine Woo is the author of the poetry collection Cycling with the Dragon, Nightwood Editions, 2014.  She works in many different media including poetry, graphic comics, video, libretto, and non-fiction.  She has been published in Canada, the US, the UK, France, and Hong Kong.


Monday, November 21, 2016

Amanda Earl : from The Vispo Bible: Jude

Amanda Earl's visual poetry has been exhibited in Russia and Canada, has been published in Fantagraphics' The Last Vispo Anthology. Her visual poetry chapbook Of the Body was published by Kingston's Puddle of Sky Press. A Fieldguide for Fanciful Bugs was published on line by avantacular press. Snippets & excerpts of her visual poetry have appeared on line at DrunkenBoat.com, The Volta, Tip of the Knife & UnlikelyStories.Org and in print in Dreamland IX (Prince George, BC, 2016). Gary Barwin gave a lovely write up of Earl's visual poetry over on Jacket2.  For more vispo, please visit EleanorIncognito.blogspot.ca.

"Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied."


Monday, November 14, 2016

Massimo Stirneri : opprobrium nature 2

Massimo Stirneri is an Italian poet, spending time writing, exploring experimental writings and playing with visual arts. His works have appeared in online publications including Otoliths, Tip of the Knife, Figroot Press and chapbooks.

web site, hosting all his English works: restlessmuseum.tumblr.com


Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Massimo Stirneri : opprobrium nature 1

Massimo Stirneri is an Italian poet, spending time writing, exploring experimental writings and playing with visual arts. His works have appeared in online publications including Otoliths, Tip of the Knife, Figroot Press and chapbooks.

web site, hosting all his English works: restlessmuseum.tumblr.com


Saturday, October 15, 2016

hiromi suzuki : rain chord 1 and 2

hiromi Suzuki is an illustrator, poet, artist living in Tokyo, Japan. A contributor to the Japanese poetry magazine gui (run by members of the Japanese "VOU" group of poets, founded by the late Kitasono Katue). Author of Ms. cried, 77 poems by hiromi suzuki (kisaragi publishing, 2013 ISBN978-4-901850-42-1). Her works are published internationally in Otoliths, BlazeVOX, Empty Mirror, M58, DATABLEED, Black Market Re-View and NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2015 amongst other places.

web site: http://hiromisuzukimicrojournal.tumblr.com/



Thursday, October 6, 2016

sean burn : psychia hasek

sean burn: i write up gallery walls with charcoal, project visuals at night, blank out dictionaries, create poster-trails, stage interventions, distribute alt-banknotes via mail art & am published in zines, pamphlets and online. i even show work more conventionally. solo exhibition still alone in her voices - inspired by my experiences of psychosis, launched at broadacre house, newcastle (thanks to the mental health collective), and tours until 2019.
download free pdf books at http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/burn_sean or see www.gobscure.info






Monday, October 3, 2016

Texas Fontanella and Mark Young : A Comic Satnav

Texas Fontanella is a student at USYD. You can find his work @ Otoliths, Uut Poetry, experiential experimental literature, Poetry WTF?!, the new post-literate, Futures Trading, Beakful, M58, Rasavada, Moss Trill, h&, and Truck. Also now @: http://ptfblog.blogspot.com.au

Mark Young's most recent books are Bandicoot habitat & lithic typology, both from gradient books of Finland.  An e-book, For the Witches of Romania, is due out from Beard of Bees. Recent visual work has appeared / is to appear in BlazeVOX, Word for / Word, Shuf Poetry, Of/With, & Tip of the Knife.



Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Daniel Van Klei : Strawberries remind us of Braque

Daniel Van Klei lived in numerous rural areas of British Columbia and would often explore the fields and forests on his own. Living in remote areas meant that he spent a lot of time traveling in vehicles where he would constantly catch the frame of the shifting world through the car window. These early experiences were instrumental in shaping his perspectives of his subjects, both as a painter and photographer. His viewpoints further expanded when he completed his private pilot’s license and began to experience the earth from above, from a different, more abstracted perspective.

Daniel pursued his formal education at Simon Fraser University and completed both a B.A. and a B.Ed. in Visual Art.   After graduation in 1997, Daniel taught art photography and painting and general art at high school. This was a lot of fun for him and his spare time was spent climbing and hiking and pursuing black and white photography and painting. His paintings and award-winning photography garnered attention across Canada and the U.S.A. in Washington, Seattle and Ottawa.

His work has been recognized in public collections in the Government of Canada, McMaster University and Hillebrand Estates Winery. Hillebrand, known for its longstanding support of the arts, selected Daniel’s painting Big Sugar II, a sugar maple tree, to grace the bottles of their 2007 Artist Series Limited Edition Chardonnay, noting his work represented the diversity of the Canadian culture. In 2010, paintings from his Sugar Maple Series formed part of the art installation for the G20 and G8 Summit meetings held in Ontario.

Daniel’s work exhibits stillness, purity and simplicity while dynamic in form. Grooved texture comes from multiple layers of acrylic paint which are thick and substantial. The incorporation of metallic paint creates rich visual interest and the use of collage forms specific aspects of the composition and provides a source of meaning making and story-telling. Symbolic threads or stories interwoven throughout the canvas, either hidden or obvious are present in Daniel’s work.  While he often thinks about these connections while he paints, he rarely speaks of these experiences so as not to interfere with the viewer’s own response to his work.

Daniel’s tendency towards ambiguity and abstraction in his works are often established around more tangible yet elusive elements such as wind or water. These elements are deceptively simple things that everyone experiences every day and yet are difficult to describe without using emotional symbolic references. His work refers to his personal experiences of sensing a space and all of life’s elements. He values the unknown, questions exactly where one is going, with a belief that there are no coincidences.



Friday, September 16, 2016

Robert Swereda : from ransomumble

Robert Swereda is the author of How to design a hail storm (Another new calligraphy), Signature Move (Knives Forks and Spoons) and re: verbs (Bareback editions), as well as four chapbooks: bloom circuits, Capture, chicken scratch and ionlylikeitwhenitrhymes. His writing appears in Canadian and international literary journals.




Tuesday, September 13, 2016

derek beaulieu : from ascender / descender

Dr. Derek Beaulieu is the author of the collections of poetry with wax, fractal economies, chains, silence, kern, frogments from the frag pool (co-written with Gary Barwin) and Please no more poetry: the poetry of derek beaulieu (Ed. Kit Dobson). He has also written 3 collections of conceptual fiction: flatland, Local Colour and How To Write (Nominated for the W.O. Mitchell Award). He is the author of two collections of essays: Seen of the Crime and The Unbearable Contact with Poets. Beaulieu co-edited bill bissett’s RUSH: what fuckan theory (with Gregory Betts), Writing Surfaces: fiction of John Riddell (with Lori Emerson) and Shift & Switch (with angela rawlings and Jason Christie). He is the publisher of the acclaimed no press and is the visual poetry editor at UBUWeb. Beaulieu has exhibited his work across Canada, the United States and Europe and is an award-winning instructor at the Alberta College of Art + Design. Derek Beaulieu was the 2014–2016 Poet Laureate of Calgary, Canada.


Friday, September 9, 2016

Eileen R. Tabios : KOMMAS: A SPECULATIVE FICTION

Eileen R. Tabios loves books and has released about 40 collections of poetry, fiction, essays, and experimental biographies from publishers in nine countries and cyberspace. Her most recent are THE CONNOISSEUR OF ALLEYS (Marsh Hawk Press, 2016) and INVENT(ST)ORY: Selected Catalog Poems and New 1996-1915 (Dos Madres Press, 2015). With poems translated into eight languages, she also has edited, co-edited or conceptualized ten anthologies of poetry, fiction and essays in addition to serving as editor or guest editor for various literary journals.  She maintains a biblioliphic blog, “Eileen Verbs Books“; edits Galatea Resurrects, a popular poetry review; steers the literary and arts publisher Meritage Press; and frequently curates thematic online poetry projects including LinkedIn Poetry Recommendations (a recommended list of contemporary poetry books).  More information is available at http://eileenrtabios.com



Friday, September 2, 2016

Texas Fontanella and Mark Young : The Bunker

Texas Fontanella is a student at USYD. You can find his work @ Otoliths, Uut Poetry, experiential experimental literature, Poetry WTF?!, the new post-literate, Futures Trading, Beakful, M58, Rasavada, Moss Trill, h&, and Truck. Also now @: http://ptfblog.blogspot.com.au

Mark Young's most recent books are Bandicoot habitat & lithic typology, both from gradient books of Finland.  An e-book, For the Witches of Romania, is due out from Beard of Bees. Recent visual work has appeared / is to appear in BlazeVOX, Word for / Word, Shuf Poetry, Of/With, & Tip of the Knife.


Monday, August 29, 2016

Doug Dumais : Predestination Kills Fun Week? – 2015

Doug Dumais is a poet, photographer, researcher, and educator based in Ottawa, Ontario. His art practice focuses on memory and the interplay between image and the written word. He is an editor of InWords Magazine and Press.


Thursday, August 25, 2016

Amanda Earl : firstwalks of the year - five

Amanda Earl's visual poetry has been exhibited in Russia and Canada, has been published in Fantagraphics' The Last Vispo Anthology. Her visual poetry chapbook Of the Body was published by Kingston's Puddle of Sky Press. A Fieldguide for Fanciful Bugs was published on line by avantacular press. Snippets & excerpts of her visual poetry have appeared on line at DrunkenBoat.com, The Volta, Tip of the Knife & UnlikelyStories.Org and in print in Dreamland IX (Prince George, BC, 2016). Gary Barwin gave a lovely write up of Earl's visual poetry over on Jacket2.  For more vispo, please visit EleanorIncognito.blogspot.ca.

Note: collages made in conjunction with chapbook firstwalks of the year (In/Words Press, Ottawa, 2016).


Thursday, August 18, 2016

Robert Swereda : from ransomumble

Robert Swereda is the author of How to design a hail storm (Another new calligraphy), Signature Move (Knives Forks and Spoons) and re: verbs (Bareback editions), as well as four chapbooks: bloom circuits, Capture, chicken scratch and ionlylikeitwhenitrhymes. His writing appears in Canadian and international literary journals.





Wednesday, August 10, 2016

derek beaulieu : from ascender / descender

Dr. Derek Beaulieu is the author of the collections of poetry with wax, fractal economies, chains, silence, kern, frogments from the frag pool (co-written with Gary Barwin) and Please no more poetry: the poetry of derek beaulieu (Ed. Kit Dobson). He has also written 3 collections of conceptual fiction: flatland, Local Colour and How To Write (Nominated for the W.O. Mitchell Award). He is the author of two collections of essays: Seen of the Crime and The Unbearable Contact with Poets. Beaulieu co-edited bill bissett’s RUSH: what fuckan theory (with Gregory Betts), Writing Surfaces: fiction of John Riddell (with Lori Emerson) and Shift & Switch (with angela rawlings and Jason Christie). He is the publisher of the acclaimed no press and is the visual poetry editor at UBUWeb. Beaulieu has exhibited his work across Canada, the United States and Europe and is an award-winning instructor at the Alberta College of Art + Design. Derek Beaulieu was the 2014–2016 Poet Laureate of Calgary, Canada.



Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Texas Fontanella and Mark Young : After Magritte

Texas Fontanella is a student at USYD. You can find his work @ Otoliths, Uut Poetry, experiential experimental literature, Poetry WTF?!, the new post-literate, Futures Trading, Beakful, M58, Rasavada, Moss Trill, h&, and Truck. Also now @: http://ptfblog.blogspot.com.au

Mark Young's most recent books are Bandicoot habitat & lithic typology, both from gradient books of Finland.  An e-book, For the Witches of Romania, is due out from Beard of Bees. Recent visual work has appeared / is to appear in BlazeVOX, Word for / Word, Shuf Poetry, Of/With, & Tip of the Knife.


Thursday, July 28, 2016

Amanda Earl : firstwalks of the year - four

Amanda Earl's visual poetry has been exhibited in Russia and Canada, has been published in Fantagraphics' The Last Vispo Anthology. Her visual poetry chapbook Of the Body was published by Kingston's Puddle of Sky Press. A Fieldguide for Fanciful Bugs was published on line by avantacular press. Snippets & excerpts of her visual poetry have appeared on line at DrunkenBoat.com, The Volta, Tip of the Knife & UnlikelyStories.Org and in print in Dreamland IX (Prince George, BC, 2016). Gary Barwin gave a lovely write up of Earl's visual poetry over on Jacket2.  For more vispo, please visit EleanorIncognito.blogspot.ca.

Note: collages made in conjunction with chapbook firstwalks of the year (In/Words Press, Ottawa, 2016).


Monday, July 25, 2016

Robert Swereda : from ransomumble

Robert Swereda is the author of How to design a hail storm (Another new calligraphy), Signature Move (Knives Forks and Spoons) and re: verbs (Bareback editions), as well as four chapbooks: bloom circuits, Capture, chicken scratch and ionlylikeitwhenitrhymes. His writing appears in Canadian and international literary journals.



Monday, July 18, 2016

derek beaulieu : from ascender / descender

Dr. Derek Beaulieu is the author of the collections of poetry with wax, fractal economies, chains, silence, kern, frogments from the frag pool (co-written with Gary Barwin) and Please no more poetry: the poetry of derek beaulieu (Ed. Kit Dobson). He has also written 3 collections of conceptual fiction: flatland, Local Colour and How To Write (Nominated for the W.O. Mitchell Award). He is the author of two collections of essays: Seen of the Crime and The Unbearable Contact with Poets. Beaulieu co-edited bill bissett’s RUSH: what fuckan theory (with Gregory Betts), Writing Surfaces: fiction of John Riddell (with Lori Emerson) and Shift & Switch (with angela rawlings and Jason Christie). He is the publisher of the acclaimed no press and is the visual poetry editor at UBUWeb. Beaulieu has exhibited his work across Canada, the United States and Europe and is an award-winning instructor at the Alberta College of Art + Design. Derek Beaulieu was the 2014–2016 Poet Laureate of Calgary, Canada.