The Reinvention of the Human Hand
new poetry collection
Release date: March 2, 2010.
new poetry collection
Release date: March 2, 2010.
Information
- Affiliation:
- Insomniac Press, ECW Press, Harbour Publishing, McClelland & Stewart
- Location:
- Toronto, ON
- Birthday:
- November 17, 1973
Events
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- The Al Purdy A-frame Anthology...
Harbourfront Centre, Queens Quay Ce...
Wednesday, November 18 at 7:00pm - Paul Vermeersch, Jenny Sampiri...
Smiling Buddha Bar
Tuesday, June 23 at 7:00pm - Paul Vermeersch will read at t...
The Cenrtral
Tuesday, July 22 at 8:00pm - Paul Vermeersch -- John Stiles...
Type Books -- lower gallery
Sunday, May 25 at 6:00pm
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- READ POEMS BY PAUL VERMEERSCH HERE: 11:54am Feb 9
Paul Vermeersch The Globe and Mail published a nice article yesterday about the anthology and the effort to save Purdy's house.
www.theglobeandmail.com
Al Purdy opened his house to a generation of writers. Now they're gathering to help save a home that became a literary legend
Paul Vermeersch
Harbour Publishing and Authors at Harbourfront Centre invite you to celebrate the launch of The Al Purdy A-frame Anthology with special guests including:
Paul Vermeersch
Dennis Lee
Geoff Heinricks
Russell Brown
Dave Bidini
Michael Ondaatje
Steven Heighton
and more.
Poet and novelist John Degen of the Ontario Arts Counci...l will host this evening of poetry and anecdotes. Book sales and an auction featuring Al Purdy items & artwork will help raise funds for the Al Purdy A-frame Trust, an organization dedicated to preserving the A-frame for future generations of Canadian writers.
This event will be held at Harbourfront Centre in the Lakeside Terrace located at 235 Queens Quay West on Wednesday, November 18th at 7:30 pm. Doors open at 7:00 pm. Refreshments and canapes will be served. Tickets are $8.00. For more information, please call (416) 973-4000.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Al Purdy A Frame Anthology
by Al Purdy, edited by Paul Vermeersch
A celebration of the most unlikely, outrageous and important gathering place in modern Canadian writing, with contributions from Dennis Lee, Eurithe Purdy, F.R. Scott, George Galt, Joe Rosenblatt, Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, D.G Jones, Sid Marty, Steven Heighton, Howard White, David McFadden, David Helwig, Janet Lunn, Paul Vermeersch, Michael Ondaatje and others.
This is a book with a mission. On one level it is a celebration of the great Canadian poet Al Purdy by eminent writers who were his contemporaries. It is also part of a campaign to preserve the place that was the centre of Purdy's writing universe—his home, a lakeside A-frame cottage in Ameliasburgh, Ontario, where he and his wife Eurithe lived for 43 years. The cottage was one of the most important crossroads on Canada's literary map, a kind of tribal mustering place for notable Canadian writers from the 1950s to the 1990s including Margaret Laurence, Milton Acorn, Patrick Lane, Tom Marshall, Scott Symons, R. G. Everson, H. R. Percy, Lynn Crosbie, Michael Holmes, Maggie Helwig and a host of others. This book collects anecdotes, reminiscences, and poems by a roll call of Canadian writers about memorable days and nights spent at the A-frame, along with a selection of Purdy's own writing showing the depth of his feeling for the place where he put down his roots.
Eurithe Purdy says Al was always his most productive at the A-frame. "Despite the caviar receptions and gold accolades, he always returned to this jury-rigged little A-frame tacked to a low-slung, leaning bungalow. The whole edifice, he observed, 'bent a little in the wind and dreamt of the trees it came from.' Here, he could observe all his poetry's recurring themes: love, death, ego, 'the glories of copulation.'"-- Globe and Mail.
Proceeds from The Al Purdy A-Frame Anthology will go towards preserving the Purdy home as a retreat for future generations of Canadian writers.
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http://www.alpurdy.ca
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with Paul Vermeersch, Dennis Lee, Dave Bidini, Michael Ondaatje, and more.
Time:7:00PM Wednesday, November 18th
Location:Harbourfront Centre, Queens Quay Centre, Lakeside Terrace
Paul Vermeersch The Al Purdy A-frame Anthology will be released in about a month. Hooray!
www.harbourpublishing.com
A celebration of the most unlikely, outrageous and important gathering place in modern Canadian writing, with contributions from Dennis Lee, Eurithe Purdy, F.R. Scott, George Galt, Joe Rosenblatt, Margaret ...
Paul Vermeersch The Reinvention of the Human Hand is coming in spring 2010.
www.mcclelland.com
; Poetry - Single Author Format: Trade Paperback, 80 pages Publisher: McClelland & Stewart ISBN: 978-0-7710-8743-1 (0-7710-8743-8) Pub Date: March 2, 2010 Price: $18.99
Nicole Homich Saw you at open mic at the Art Bar - the werewolf poem was the best of the night!
Paul Vermeersch
NOW HEAR THIS! excitedly awaits the second installment of its HEAR/HEAR Reading Series. This FREE reading series showcases the extraordinarily talented NOW HEAR THIS! Writers-in-Residence.
Join us at the Smiling Buddha Bar (961 College St) at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 23rd for this 19 + event.
HEAR/HEAR is not simply a...nother reading series, or your run of the mill coffee klatch: it's celebrating writers getting involved with youth and encouraging the community to support its local authors!
This month's line up features: Jenny Sampirisi, Aaron Tucker and Paul Vermeersch who will spend the evening reading new work.
Jenny Sampirisi, writer-in-residence at St. Joseph's College, is a poet, prose writer and editor. She is the managing editor of BookThug and facilitates the online concrete poetry journal, Other Cl/utter. She teaches English at Ryerson University where she runs the Ryerson Reading Series. She is also an executive member of the Scream Literary Festival. Her first novel, is/was, explores the flexible boundaries of language, media and the body.
Aaron Tucker, writer-in-residence at Bishop Allen, has appeared in Descant, Rampike and the The Windsor Review. He also publishes regular review for Broken Pencil, Matrix and The Danforth Review, in addition to running the poetry criticism site Agora. He is currently teaching at Ryerson University.
Paul Vermeersch, writer-in-residence at Chaminade, is a poet and editor. He has written the poetry collections Burn (ECW Press, 2000), which earned him a place among the finalists for the 2001 Gerald Lampert Award, The Fat Kid (ECW Press, 2002), and most recently, Between the Walls (McClelland & Stewart, 2005). His next collection of poems, The Reinvention of the Human Hand, is forthcoming from McClelland & Stewart in spring 2010. He lives in Toronto, teaches at Sheridan College, and is poetry editor for Insomniac Press.
are reading in The Art Bar Poetry Series at Clinton's
Location:Clinton's Tavern
Time:8:00PM Tuesday, June 9th
Mi Oliver mi oliver was here. Thats Mike
Paul Vermeersch
Please come to the Al Purdy Tribute Night on April 21st. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13
Sam Higgins Psyched to be seeing Vermeersch at the IV Lounge Reading Series! My first big poetry event. Most excited indeed.
Paul Vermeersch
Paul Vermeersch will read from Between the Walls (M&S 2005) as well as some new works.
Adam Getty will read from Repose, his new poetry collection from Nightwood Editions.
John Stiles will read from Taking the Stairs, his new novel from Nightwood Editions.
A reading with three writers.
Time:6:00PM Sunday, May 25th
Location:Type Books -- lower gallery
April 18, 2008 at 3:00pm
Catherine Hey.....I can't be a fan of yours.....I own you....lol
Jacob McArthur Mooney Do we get, like, discounted Paul Vermeersch merchandise and ancillary memorabilia for being in this?
Helene Goderis yes, yes i do
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