a
series of video recordings of contemporary poets reading from their work, prompted
by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent cancellations, shut-downs and isolations;
a reading series you can enjoy in the safety of your own protected space,
Heidi
Greco :
“Night Watch, Lunar,” “Period of Adjustment” and “My children still bring
prizes for my birthday”
A
writer and editor, Heidi Greco’s most recent poetry collections are Practical
Anxiety (Inanna Publications, 2018) and Flightpaths: The Lost Journals
of Amelia Earhart (Caitlin Press, 2017). In 2018, Otter Press published an
anthology which she compiled and edited, From the Heart of It All: Ten Years
of Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. More information, including
links to her blogs, is at her website:
heidigreco.ca
Ken
Belford :
excerpts from Slick Reckoning
Ken Belford
(1946-2020) was born to a farming family in Alberta and grew up in Vancouver.
For more than thirty years, he, along with his wife and daughter, operated a
non-consumptive enterprise in the unroaded mountains at the vicinity of the
headwaters of the Nass and Skeena Rivers. The “self-educated lan(d)guage” poet
has said that living for decades in the “back country” has afforded him a
unique relationship to language that rejects the colonial impulse to write
about nature, but speaks from the regions of the other. “The conventional
standards of narrative and lyric poetry give me nothing. The intention of the
sequences I write is to assemble words that can be messaged to the habituated
souls of the city from the land-aware that live outside city limits.” His eight
books of poetry are Fireweed, The Post Electric Caveman, Pathways
Into the Mountains, lan(d)guage, when snakes awaken, ecologue,
Decompositions, Internodes, and slick reckoning. See the folio dedicated to Ken Belford and his work here.
Kim
Goldberg :
“Curtain Call,” “Arrival” and “Special Collection” from Devolution
Kim Goldberg
is the author of eight books of poetry and nonfiction. Her latest is Devolution
(Caitlin Press, 2020)—a collection of poems and fables of ecopocalypse. Her
surreal and absurdist narratives have appeared in The Capilano Review, Prairie
Fire, Literary Review of Canada and Dark Mountain Books. She
lives on unceded Snuneymuxw territory (Nanaimo, BC), where she is known for
creating poem galleries in vacant storefronts and staging guerrilla poetry
happenings in weedy waysides.
Bill
Neumire : “Abstract
Therapy in the Natural World,” originally published in Tupelo Quarterly
Bill Neumire's
second book of poems, #TheNewCrusades, which was a finalist for the
Barrow Street Prize, will be published in 2022 by Unsolicited Press. His first
book, Estrus, was a semi-finalist for the 42 Miles Press Award and was
reviewed in the Georgia Review. He reviews poems for Vallum and
for Verdad where he also serves as poetry editor.
Christina
Thatcher
: “Detox Passage,” “Relapse” and “Bad Things”
Christina
Thatcher
is a Creative Writing Lecturer at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She keeps
busy off campus as Poetry Editor for The Cardiff Review, a tutor for The
Poetry School, a member of the Literature Wales Management Board and as a
freelance workshop facilitator across the UK. Her poetry and short stories have
featured in over 50 publications including The London Magazine, North
American Review, Planet Magazine, The Interpreter’s House and
more. She has published two poetry collections with Parthian Books: More than
you were (2017) and How to Carry Fire (2020). To learn more about
Christina’s work please visit her website: christinathatcher.com or follow her
on Twitter @writetoempower.