Category: News
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Book tour
My readings in Toronto & Montreal for The things I heard about you. As opposed to the last time I read in other cities, this time I conscientiously recorded the whole thing…because I have an iPhone. From top: Prathna Lor reading at my Toronto launch at Type Books; Sarah Pinder reading at my Toronto…
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One last launch tomorrow + my poems are so pedestrian
After launches in Vancouver and Toronto, the last launch of my book (that I know of!) is tomorrow night — Saturday night — in Montreal. It’s at 7 PM at Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore, 211 Bernard Ouest. I’m honoured to have Daniel Allen Cox and Linda Besner reading with me. All the details are on…
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An anthology + heading off
In about a week I’m headed off to read in Toronto (Nov 5, 6) and Montreal (Nov 8) to read from The things I heard about you. All the details about the readings are in my previous post and I hope you’ll join me. Thanks to everyone who came out to the Vancouver launches. In…
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Toronto and Montreal launches of ‘The things I heard about you’
In a few weeks I’m heading off to do readings in Toronto and Montreal from my new book, The things I heard about you. Many thanks to my press, Nightwood, and to the Canada Council for the Arts for supporting these readings. Although I’ve lived in and around Vancouver for the whole of my writing…
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First response
My book The things I heard about you isn’t technically out until October 10th, but today I was pleased to get this response from poet Catherine Owen on her review blog, Marrow. “There is matter here: memory, relationship, ecology, oppression overcome, beauty, but it is the experiment of paring down to fragments of saying that…
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Vancouver launch + an interview
The Rusty Toque (a great online literary journal) interviewed me about my writing process. You can read the interview here. Details about the Montreal and Toronto launches are below the interview. My new book, a collection of prose poems entitled The things I heard about you, will be launched in Vancouver in a couple weeks.…
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Dear rivers
Yesterday I read at a poetry event honouring the work of Chief Dan George — the reading was part of the Salish Sea summer gathering hosted by the Tsleil Waututh nation in the Burrard Inlet, not far from where I grew up in Vancouver. The Tsleil Waututh are currently fighting Kinder Morgan’s proposed pipeline expansion in their…
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Reading coming up — Chief Dan George poetry series
My favourite kind of reading is when I get invited to respond to another artist’s work — it takes me out of my element. I’ll be reading soon with other poets at an event honouring the work of Chief Dan George. The event is presented by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation Sacred Trust and I’m honoured to be…
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It’s alive
And here’s the link to the listing for my second book, The things I heard about you, out this fall from Nightwood. Many thanks to Jen Currin and Larissa Lai for the blurbs for the book — both describe the project so well, better than I could have. Both are writers I hugely admire. “Prose poems,…
Alex Leslie 