Category: News
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The person you want to see
I’ve published a few times in The Rusty Toque. I have a new story in their current issue, just released. It’s entitled ‘The Person You Want To See’ and you can read it here. Many thanks to Kathryn Mockler and everyone at The Rusty Toque for the work they do.
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Whalesong
I’m very happy that my poem ‘Vancouver Whalesong’ is on the longlist for this year’s CBC Poetry Prize. Congrats to everyone who’s longlisted. The complete list is here.
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Reading Oct 28 with Lucas Crawford and Ali Blythe
I’m thrilled to be reading at the launch of Ali Blythe and Lucas Crawford’s debut poetry collections!
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Some new work
Just a quick note about some new work. I am glad to have work in the current issue of CV2, The Poetics of Queer — it’s a wide-ranging collection of writers, from across Canada and across different generations of artists. I also have some work in the fall issue of The Malahat Review. And it…
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This is a Dayne Ogilvie Award appreciation post
At the end of June I was so happy to go to Toronto receive this year’s Dayne Ogilvie Award for emerging LGBT writer from the Writers Trust of Canada. I was surprised to get the call that I’d won the Dayne Ogilvie but since then I’ve realized that I’ve been published for almost a decade –…
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Review on The Rusty Toque
Thanks to Justin Lauzon for his response to my book on The Rusty Toque. It’s rare that a reviewer engages with the process of the writing and not just the content. But the magic of every poetic-quartet is highlighted in that liminal space between once section and the next. Once a poem ends, the word…
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Reading in Toronto on June 26
I will be reading in Toronto at at the Dayne Ogilvie award presentation on June 26. All the info is here. I’m excited to read with the honourable mentions, Casey Plett and Vivek Shraya.
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Dayne Ogilvie Prize
I’m very honoured to have won the 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, awarded each year by the Writers’ Trust of Canada. Thank you to the Writers’ Trust and congrats to the two recipients of honours of distinction, Vivek Shraya and Casey Plett, both writers whose work I’ve read and enjoyed. Jury citation: With assured debuts in…
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Reading coming up
I have a reading come up in a couple weeks. I’m reading with Robin Susanto, a local poet, at the poetry reading series at Cottage Bistro on Main St, Twisted Poets presented by the Pandora’s Collective. There’s an open mic following the readings, so if you’d like to be part of the open mic show…
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Phoems = pho + poems
A little while ago Rachel Rose, Vancouver’s new poet laureate, put out the word that she would like proposals for food related poetry events — readings, workshops, whatever. This is part of Vancouver-wide programming she’s doing during her…laureateship? My dear poet-friend Adrienne Gruber asked me if I would like to bring our special method of workshopping…
Alex Leslie 