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Mark Abley
Blaine Marchand
Nadine McInnis
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Mark Abley is the editor or author of 10 books, including the internationally acclaimed Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages. Abley is the literary executor for Anne Szumigalski.
Blaine Marchand is the author of six books, four poetry books, a young adult novel and a work of non-fiction. His work has appeared in magazines across Canada and in the US. He has a forthcoming book, Equilibrium (poems on and photos of Afghanistan) by Pendas Press of London Ontario is to be published this year. Another collection, The Craving of Knives, is under consideration for publication in 2008. He has won several awards, including the Archibald Lampman Prize. He was President of the League of Canadian Poets from 1992 to 1994.
Nadine McInnis is the author of four books of poetry, Shaking the Dreamland Tree, The Litmus Body, Hand to Hand, First Fire / Ce feu que devore., as well as a critical books, Poetics of Desire, on the love poems of Dorothy Livesay. Her collection of short stories, Quicksilver, was nominated for the Danuta Gleed Award for best first book of short fiction, The Writers Craft Award for best book of short fiction by an Ontario author, and the Ottawa Book Award. Her next book of poetry, Two Hemispheres, will appear from Brick Books in 2007.
When Earth Leaps Up
This posthumous collection will be a delightful surprise for readers who thought they had heard the last of Anne Szumigalski's nimble, sideslipping, otherworldly voice. Szumigalski's poetic universe is as beguiling and unpredictable as dreams and myth, and like them, her universe can be enchanting, visually lush, and suddenly dangerous.
The poems deal with ultimate questions. What is time? What is memory? Is it invented or real? Is death a kind of dream? Is life? Is God a man, a woman, or a Sacred Reptile? The imaginative leaps in When Earth Leaps Up are as easy as looking up at the prairie sky, as simple as turning your head to the side to catch a glimpse of an idea as it skips past you in the form of an interesting stranger, a passing cloud, the face of a loved one, long dead.
Anne Szumigalski immigrated to Canada from England in 1951, and lived in Saskatoon from 1956 until her death in 1999. The author of 15 books, she received the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1995 for Voice, a collaboration with the visual artist Marie Elyse St. George.
the small press action network - ottawa (cleaning out yr literary clogs since 1996); thanks to the Ottawa Art Gallery for providing space and much love.
Next factory reading: Thursday, May 10, 2007, readings by Kate Greenstreet (US) & Rhonda Douglas (Ottawa).
Information:
rob mclennan
az421@freenet.carleton.ca
613-239-0337
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