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Ian Ferrier
Ian Ferrier (1954 – 3 November 2023) was a Canadian poet, musician, and cultural arts organizer. As co-founder of the Wired on Words record label, longtime organizer of The Words and Music Show, author of four chapbooks, and member of the voice/music fusion collective Pharmakon MTL, he was a central figure in the Montreal music, poetry, and spoken word scene from the 1990s until his death in 2023. Biography Ilay Ian Charles Ferrier was born in Montreal in 1954. He studied literature and creative writing at Concordia University, where as an undergraduate he co-founded the literary journal ''Los'' in 1975. Montreal environments feature in his first book of poetry, ''From yr lover like an orchestra'', published by Davinci press in 1974. David Lawson of '' The Gazette'' wrote, "most of his collection consists not of observable poems but of paragraphs, sometimes indented, and occasional spare lines, all of which add up to a frankly experimental effect." Louis Dudek, reviewing the bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broken Pencil
''Broken Pencil'' was a quarterly Canadian magazine based in Toronto, Canada that profiled zine culture and independent arts and music. It was founded in 1995, and it closed in 2024. History ''Broken Pencil'' was founded in 1995 by Hal Niedzviecki. In 2009, ''Broken Pencil'' published a collection of short stories entitled ''Can'tLit: Fearless Fiction from Broken Pencil Magazine,'' featuring Canadian independent writers, with ECW Press. In 2015, The Toronto Star published an article about the first 20 years of ''Broken Pencil'' and its role in zine publishing in Canada. Niedzviecki, who remained the magazine's publisher, shut down ''Broken Pencil'' in late 2024, citing criticism of his views on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Niedzviecki had received backlash after he made multiple pro-Israel posts on Twitter, culminating in "a petition signed by nearly 200 people, including former editors and contributors, asking him to resign as publisher" of ''Broken Pencil''. Canzin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
