Jordan Scott Reading

For this month’s Olive we welcome Jordan Scott. We hope to see you there this month! As always, there is an open mic afterwards for interested readers!

Date: Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location: LEVA
11053 86th Ave
Edmonton, AB

Bio: Jordan Scott lives in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver BC. He is the author of two books of poetry: Silt (New Star Books, 2005) and Blert (Coach House, 2008).

Hiromi Goto Chapbook

Click on the image to view the chapbook for the month of January.

Hiromi Goto Reading

We are happy to welcome Hiromi Goto to the Olive this month. We would love to see you there!

Date: Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: LEVA Cappuccino Bar
Street: 11053 86th ave

Photo Credit: Kiely Ramos

Poet Bio: Hiromi Goto is the award-winning author of Chorus of Mushrooms, and The Kappa Child. She’s also written a children’s novel, The Water of Possibility, and a collection of short stories, Hopeful Monsters. Her recent YA novel, Half World, was published by Penguin Canada, and is pending release in Poland, France and the US. Her latest publication, Wait Until Late Afternoon, is a collaborative long poem written with David Bateman. She is the 2009/10 writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta.

Erin Mouré chapbook

 

Click on the image to view the chapbook for the month of December by Erin Mouré. We look forward to seeing you for the reading this month!

Erin Mouré Reading (NOTE DATE CHANGE)

We are excited to announce the reader for the month of December: Erin Mouré.

Please note that for this month only, the reading will be held on the third Tuesday.

Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: LEVA Cappuccino Bar
Street: 11053 86th ave

Poet Bio:
Poet and translator Erín Moure makes a special stop at the Olive to launch My Beloved Wager, just out from Edmonton´s own NeWest Press. The book records a quarter century of writing practice emerging from a city of exhilarating poetic and translatory possibility: Montreal, where Moure settled after growing up in Alberta. The linguistic-sculptural interventions and essays contained in My Beloved Wager reveal why Moure has bet her life on poetry. Noted American critic Marjorie Perloff calls it “dazzling,” and U.S. critic and poet Rachel Blau Duplessis says “Moure´s collection of essays and commentaries offers a responsive, penetrating, and alert justification for the arts of poetry and translation as radical practices of form, content, sound, ideology-and being.

As well as writing poetry, Erín Moure translates it from Portuguese (Pessoa), Galician (Pato), French (Brossard) and Spanish (Ajens). Her own most recent book of poetry is O Cadoiro (Anansi, 2007) and she will be back in Edmonton in spring 2010 to launch a collaborative poetic work with poet and translator Oana Avasilichioaei involving translational foments, Expeditions of a Chimæra (BookThug, fall 2009).

M Pigeon Chapbook

Here is the M Pigeon chapbook “Noonday in a Forgotten Country”.

Click on the image to read!

M Pigeon Reading Poster

 

The Marguerite Pigeon reading is fast approaching! Tuesday, November 10th at Leva Cappuccino Bar (11053 86th Ave).

 

Click on the poster to the left for larger image.

 

Hope to see you there!

Angela Carr Chapbook

Angela Carr’s chapbook is now available! Click the image below to read.

M. Pigeon for the November Olive Reading

The next Olive Reading will be on Tuesday, November 10th at Leva Cappuccino Bar (11053 86th ave), featuring M. Pigeon. Events begin @ 7pm!

Bio: Marguerite Pigeon is a writer of poetry and fiction. Her first book of poems, Inventory, appeared this spring with Anvil Press. She has also recently completed the manuscript of her first novel, Open Pit. A former journalist, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, where she was the fiction editor for PRISM international. Originally from Blind River, Northern Ontario, she now lives in Vancouver and works as an editor of academic publications.

Look forward to the poster and chapbook when available.

Ken Belford’s Chapbook Posted

So it took me a while to deliver on my promise, but here it is. Ken Belford’s affinities is a fine piece of post-modern eco-poetry. We here at the Olive truly hope you enjoy it as much as we do.

affinities