![]() This collective has come together in the spirit of the original Meet the Presses event begun in Toronto in the mid-1980s by Nicholas Power and Stuart Ross. Meet the Presses is a Toronto-based collective devoted to promoting micro, small and independent literary presses. With the demise of Phoenix Community Works Foundation, the Meet the Presses collective was pleased to assume management of the award. In the spirit of the original Phoenix Chapbook Award, which was adjudicated for its first two years by Frank Davey and bpNichol, and continued as the bpNichol Chapbook Award for 23 years by Phoenix Community Works Foundation, the award recognizes excellence in Canadian poetry published in chapbook form. Judges this year are Sandra Ridley (Ottawa) & kevin mcpherson eckhoff (Armstrong, BC), who received 90 chapbooks from which they made this year's shortlist selection. Donors for the prizes include Anonymous ($2,000 prize), Jim Smith and Brian Dedora ($500 prize). A cheque for $2,000 goes to the winning poet and $500 to the winning publisher. The winner will be announced at 2PM on Saturday 16 November 2013 at the Indie Literary Market, Tranzac Club, Toronto. Naturally speaking by Sandra Alland (espresso ) Ordinary Time: The Merton Lake Propers by Gil McElroy (baseline press)įruit machine by Shannon Maguire (Ferno House)Ģ1st century monsters by ryan fitzpatrick (Red Nettle Press) Thirteen poems for releasing love by joanne thorwaldson (leaf press)Īn OK Organ Man by Fenn Stewart (above/ground) Here's the press release that Toronto's Meet the Presses Collective sent out today:Ĭongratulations: Meet The Presses Collective and the bpNichol Chapbook Award Committee are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2013 bpNichol Chapbook Award. Nice, also, to also see above/ground press authors Gil McElroy and Shannon Maguire on the list for other titles, and even one of our authors as a judge! (the press appears to be everywhere these days) Congratulations to the entire shortlist! There are, unfortunately, nearly as many instances where a complete absence of capitalization and frequent awkward pauses turn poems into clunky excursions.Ĭongratulations to Toronto poet Fenn Stewart, whose 2012 chapbook An OK Organ Man (copies are still available) is on the 2013 bpNichol Chapbook Award shortlist! This is above/ground press' second appearance on the shortlist, after two titles appeared on last year's list. The result is a laid-back and effortless style the words cascade down the page. That grievance aside, there are some clear successes here, most notably when Hajnoczky manipulates syllable count and near-rhyme to create the illusion of rhythmic real-rhyme. It's inevitable that readers not fluent in Hungarian will be missing a piece of Hajnoczky's puzzle. There are a couple of poems about drinking, as well it's the cure, perhaps - the medicine that might loosen the tongue. Tongues go numb, throats are swollen, voices are "stuck in tar" and "clogged with muck." The Double Blind Dictionary thus functions like a literary quicksand pit, where deep-seated fears bubble to the surface - like the physical manifestation of a recurring teeth-falling-out dream. Most of these poems are, fittingly, about language: the unpronouncable, the ixnexpressible and, understandably, frustration. The nine poems in this experimental collection are culled from a larger project - called Magyarazni - in which Helen Hajnocsky chose a Hungarian word to represent each letter of the Hungarian alphabet, then wrote a poem in English "about that word." In The Double Blind Dictionary, we get poems for all the multi-character letters: cs, dz, dzs, gy, ly, ny, sy, ty, and zs. Copies of The Double Bind Dictionary are still available, here. Thanks, Scott! This is the second review of Helen's chapbook, after this one by our pal Ryan Pratt, and Broken Pencil was good enough to review the previous chapbook above/ground press produced of hers as well. To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at Scott Bryson was good enough to review Helen Hajnoczky's chapbook, The Double Bind Dictionary (2013) in Broken Pencil #61 (despite mangling the book's title). The author would like to thank Pierre Coupey and Renee Saklikar for their encouragement in the writing of this piece. The co-founder and publisher of the late 1980s and early 90s Tsunami Editions, he has published a number of titles, including two recent chapbooks from Obvious Epiphanies. Lary timewell is a North Vancouver writer recently returned from 20 years in Fukushima. published in Ottawa by above/ground pressĪ/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy Is another possible brush with self-realization.Īnything. The outlaw reunion came to an abrupt end, theĮating enchiladas, face up on the sofa like … and, as Ezra Pound’s eyebrows crept ever closer, ![]()
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