News & Events
Dark Valentines Monday: Theatre of One | 15 February 2010
“Pedlar Press welcomes one and all to an evening of readings and discussions with Martha Baillie, Ronna Bloom, Jason Hrivnak, Jaqueline Larson, Jacob Wren and Souvankham Thammavongsa”
Monday February 15, 2010
7:30pm
Victory Cafe
581 Markham Street (2nd floor)
In Beth Follett’s continuing effort to position Pedlar Press as a house of both heart & mind, she has asked these six Pedlar authors to come prepared to comment on and read works that explore Jung’s theories of individuation and the creation of consciousness. (She sure doesn’t know how anyone can be a Lover without Consciousness.)
In theatre, the term Dark Monday refers to a general closing, a day off for everyone involved in a performance. Borrowing this theatrical term as a leaping-off point for the Pedlar Press event, participants are asked to consider how Romantic Love can be performative, and to consider what might happen were we to remove our persona, our theatrical mask, for just one day, in order to more fully question projections, particularly in our intimate relationships.
This will be a very powerful communal event, one that might be very nourishing, for both speaker and audience. Come and share in the spirit of the newly-reconstituted Meet The Presses collective, and of Sheila Heti & Margaux Williamson’s Tramploine Hall, where individuals are invited to speak about things of which they are not expert.
For more information, please call (416) 534-2011.
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Tertulia Reading Series| 25 February 2010
Readings and Conversation
with Michael Stone and Ronna Bloom
Music by double bass player Aaron Lumley
Hosted by Soraya Peerbaye and Erin Robinsong
Thursday 25 February 2010
7:30pm
Holy Oak Cafe
1241 Bloor Street West (Bloor and Lansdowne)
(647) 345-2803
Soraya Peerbaye and Erin Robinsong have invited yoga teacher, psychotherapist and author Michael Stone, and Ronna Bloom to read their work and talk about “poetry, ethics and poetic thought.” To talk — off the cuff! — about the relationship between their practice as writers and practice as teachers, psychotherapists; wanting to know how one influences the other; asking “why you do what you do – why you engage with language and people the way you do – through your writing and other work?”
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Tree Reading Series| 9 March 2010
Ronna Bloom brings her recent book, PERMISO,
to Ottawa
Tuesday March 9, 2010
8pm
Ottawa Arts Court
2 Daly Ave
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information see www.treereadingseries.ca/
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Rowers Pub Reading Series| 5 April 2010
Ronna reads with Lillian Allen and Scott Griffin
Monday April 5, 2010
7:30pm
Harbord House Pub
150 Harbord Street
Toronto
(647)-430-7365
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TREE HOUSE
The poetry of Ronna Bloom
and the music of jazz pianist Peter Dick
meet in their brand new CD: TREE HOUSE.
Peter Dick and I began to play together in May 2006. In our collaboration, I have been struck by how he hears and translates the poetry, so that what is reflected musically attunes to the nonverbal core of the poem. When he started to sing some of them as lyrics, I was astonished that could work. He took the poems through his own musical and felt landscape, one that resonated with mine and generated a ‘how did you hear that in there?’ amazement. There is surprise in letting go of the work and having it come back both changed and more itself. I notice, too, that when I read poetry while he plays, I read differently. Slower. More deeply. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s trusting someone to carry this trembling thing with me, gently or raucously, into the air in this new form. —rb
Available at:
Atelier Grigorian
70 Yorkville Ave, Toronto (416) 922-6477
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HMV
Toronto Superstore (and others)
333 Yonge Street, Toronto (416) 596-0333
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And through Amazon.ca
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12 or 20 questions: with Ronna Bloom
To read the responses to the questions posed by Rob McLennan, type in: robmclennan.blogspot.com
There are interviews with a bevy of Canadian authors. Ronna Bloom appears on July 30th and will be archived there, in perpetuity.
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Poetry of Place: Writing and Photographing in the West of Ireland
July 6-16, 2010For more, check out the workshop page
Permiso was reviewed in the Globe & Mail by Meg Walker.
“Permiso is one of those rare books whose title is so aligned with its overall spirit that it becomes an encapsulating metaphor for the poems within.”
Click here to read the review