News & Events

An interview about the CD, TREE HOUSE

On June 29th, Ronna Bloom was interviewed by Kate Marshall Flaherty on CKLN’s “In Other Words” about the poetry, the music, and the collaborative process of making TREE HOUSE. To hear the interview, which includes cuts from the CD made with Jazz pianist Peter Dick, you can download it at:

CKLN: Tree House

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PERMISO was short-listed for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award!

2010 Pat Lowther Jury Statement

This year’s jury had to consider seventy-five titles by women from over forty presses. Our experience reading gave us confidence as well as faith in Canadian literature, Canadian poetry, and writing by women. It was an overwhelming project which evidenced for us the richness and maturity of contemporary poetry by women, and the strength of support for their writing within the literary community. And it was a truly agonizing experience to select the long and short lists, because we have been offered such an array of riches from which to choose. Many excellent books, by established poets and those whose first books were among
the seventy-five, have been left off our short list. To those whose compelling books are not on this list, know that we read them with care and conscience, and that we could easily have extended this list to include many more remarkable titles. In terms of the quality of this short list, we truly feel that each book on it would make a worthy selection as winner; each represents an extraordinary accomplishment. Congratulations to all the short list authors on the excellence of their work.

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12 or 20 questions: with Ronna Bloom


To read the responses to the questions posed by Rob McLennan, visit:
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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