Recently PUBLISHED:
part: short life housing
a new collection by cris cheek
This is the first presentation of six sequences of cris cheek’s, including the canning town chronicles (previously only available in audio form as the lyrics to slant’s third CD) and the gridded typestracts of f o g s. A major new collection of work dating from the 1980s to the 2000s, giving a good picture of cheek's many activities in the interstices of poetry, performance-based work, visual and audio art.
A new chapbook publication
Frederick Farryl Goodwin, Buber’s Bag Man
A 32-page collection of new work by the author of Virgil’s Cow, produced as a short-run chapbook for the occasion of the 2010 post_moot conference. There aren’t too many of these left, so if you want one, drop me a line soonish. The unprinted covers are manufactured from heavy Stathmore cardstock (it seemed a shame to sully them with print, they’re such a pleasure to hold in the hand and look at), hence the lack of a thumbnail image.
Antiphonies: Essays on Women’s
Experimental Poetries in Canada
A collection of essays, interviews, and poems by/about a range of contemporary Canadian poets, including Erín Moure, Lisa Robertson, Karen Mac Cormack, Susan Clark, Christine Stewart, Lissa Wolsak, Lise Downe, Annharte, Deanna Ferguson, Nancy Shaw, Catriona Strang, and a. rawlings.
OTHER publications
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What’s in Store - Trevor Joyce
The Gig published two limited-edition chapbooks of Trevor’s in 2003, which quickly went out of print; ever since, I’ve had people asking for them. In any case, Trevor has written so much new material since 2003 that it soon became clear that what was needed was a full-length collection. So here it is: a 320pp book of poetry, collecting all of Trevor’s original poems and translations/workings and shaping them into a continuous booklength text. You can read more about it by clicking on the cover....
The Gig 18
poetry by Kelvin Corcoran, Jean Day, Andrew Levy, a.rawlings, Scott Thurston, Ralph Hawkins, Michael Boughn, David Ball, Douglas Manson, Peter Larkin, Joan Retallack; an essay on Robert Creeley and the self-reflexive poem by Peter Middleton; plus reviews, minireviews, and mini-minireviews.
Entanglement - Allen Fisher
An 288pp collection of work from Allen Fisher’s Gravity as a Consequence of Shape project. In addition to extracts from the book, this website includes additional texts that complement and expand upon the text.
The Gig 17
poetry by Steve McCaffery, Christine Stewart, William Fuller, Susan M. Schultz, Tom Orange, Gavin Selerie, derek beaulieu, Shelby Matthews, Karen Mac Cormack, Robert Sheppard; a talk by Keston Sutherland on John Wilkinson; plus the usual packed review section.
The Fly on the Page
a talk by cris cheek; three commentaries on his own work by Trevor Joyce; Harry Gilonis on Maurice Scully; and an interview with Pete Smith.
Other site features
A selection of poetry reviews and articles
A critical portfolio on Allen Fisher
There’s also always the music reviews section of the site,
with 200-odd pieces (& always growing . . .)
; more info about the site is available