At Influency some thoughts on Phil Hall’s White Porcupine is worth a read. I like how the Jenniger Lovegrove poem in the In Other Words column is taken apart in a how poems work way. And this Phoebe Tsang of Tightrope has been leading a fascinating life.
Book store and in-person book buys are put in perspective by Amazon. Take Locavore: From Farmers’ fields To Rooftop Gardens – How Canadians Are Changing the way we eat which was on hand with the author yesterday and at the local bookstore but if you order it online, it promises to “usually ship within 1 to 3 months”. Imagine if groceries were like this? It would be like arranging food orders in the high arctic, subject to ice pack and storms. Huge crates of freight seasonally. Or representing the labour it takes to make a book by proportional wait. Online instant gratification of order doesn’t transfer to instantly in hand, unlike the analogous purchase of in person which is instantaneous transfer. The bookstore at the festival is in the balcony of the Mayfair Theatre.
Anyhew, Saturday and Monday are the poetry events at the OIWF at the Mayfair Theatre.
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