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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] |
21st-century Canadian Poets
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2023 Deaths
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1954 Births
Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the , is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Ferrier Spoken Word Prize
The Quebec Writers' Federation Awards are a series of Canada, Canadian literary awards, presented annually by the Quebec Writers' Federation to the best works of literature in English language, English by writers from Quebec. They were known from 1988 to 1998 as the QSPELL Awards. Categories They are currently presented in seven literary categories: * Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction * Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction * A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry * Concordia University First Book Prize * QWF Prize for Children's & Young Adult Literature * Cole Foundation Prize for Translation (French and English, with target language alternating each year) * 3Macs ''Carte Blanche'' Prize for the best work published in the QWF's online literary journal ''Carte Blanche''. A Community Award is also frequently presented to a person who has played a significant role in building and supporting Quebec's anglophone writing community. The awards have been presented annually since 1988. Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec Writers' Federation
The Quebec Writers’ Federation (QWF) is a not-for-profit registered charitable organization representing and serving the English-language literary community in the province of Quebec, Canada. QWF is a literary arts presenter, provides professional development to established and emerging writers, runs community literary education programs, administers the Quebec Writers’ Federation Awards annually, and publishes the not-for-profit literary journal ''carte blanche''. The QWF also curates the QWF Literary Database of Quebec English-language authors, a searchable online compendium that represents the physical QWF collection of over 2,180 books by Quebec English-language authors, housed at the Atwater Library and Computer Centre. The QWF is based in Westmount (Montreal Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Laurent Boulevard
Saint Laurent Boulevard, also known as Saint Lawrence Boulevard (officially in ), is a major street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A commercial artery and cultural heritage site, the street runs north west–south east through the near-centre of city and is nicknamed The Main (), which is the abbreviation for " Main Street". The Main Beginning at De la Commune Street at the edge of the Saint Lawrence River, it transects the Island of Montreal, passing through the boroughs of Ville-Marie, Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension, and Ahuntsic-Cartierville to Rue Somerville at the edge of the Rivière des Prairies – a total length of about 11.25 km (7 miles). Saint Laurent Boulevard's cardinal direction, on a pseudo north–south axis strongly deported to the west, and aligned with the summer solstice's setting sun, was outlined by the Sulpicians towards the end of the 17th century. The first post-colonial landowner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival Voix D'Amériques
Festival Voix d’Amériques (FVA) was an annual festival in Montreal that was held from 2002 to 2011, which was dedicated to oral literature, text performance and spoken word. It was presented by Les Filles électriques. Held in early February, the FVA brought together some one hundred French- and English-language artists, shifting from La Sala Rossa (4848 St-Laurent) to the Casa del Popolo (4873 St-Laurent) and back again. In 2004, the recognized the merit and vitality of the FVA by making it a finalist for its 20th Grand Prix, in the literature section. 2005 Artists In 2005, the artists included: * Chloé Sainte-Marie * Tony Tremblay * Les Abdigradationnistes * Susie Arioli & Jordan Officer * Charles Guilbert * Pol Pelletier * Lin Snelling * Loco Locass * Jacques Bertrand * Patrice Desbiens * Michel Garneau * Stanley Péan * Hélène Pedneault * François Patenaude (des Zapartistes) * ATSA * Renée Robitaille * Ève Lamont * Lillian Allen (Toronto) * Motion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kai Cheng Thom
Kai Cheng Thom (born March 12, 1991) is a Chinese-Canadian writer, performance artist, mental health community worker, youth counsellor, and former social worker.Harron Walker"How to Choose Love at the End of the World" ''Vice'', February 14, 2020. Thom, a transgender woman, has published five books, including the novel '' Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir'' (2016), the poetry collection ''a place called No Homeland'' (2017), a children's book, ''From the Stars in The Sky to the Fish in the Sea'' (2017), ''I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World'' (2019), a book of essays centered on transformative justice, and ''Falling Back in Love With Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls'' (2023). Career Writing Thom's first book, '' Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars'', was published by Metonymy Press in 2016.Britni de la Cretaz"Author Kai Cheng Thom on Writing a New Kind of Transgender Memoir" ''Teen Vogue'', April 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arc Poetry Magazine
''Arc Poetry Magazine'' is a triannual literary magazine established in 1978, publishing poetry and prose about poetry. History ''Arc'' was started in 1978 by Carleton University professors Christopher Levenson, Michael Gnarowski and Tom Henighan. ''Arc'' became an independent not-for-profit organization unaffiliated with Carleton University after only a few issues. Christopher Levenson remained the editor until 1988. ''Arc'' has published works by significant Canadian poets such as Carol Shields, Don Domanski, Steven Heighton, Di Brandt, Erín Moure, Diana Brebner, George Elliott Clarke, Robin Skelton, Roo Borson, and Bronwen Wallace. ''Arcs mission is to nurture and promote composition and appreciation of poetry in Canada and abroad, with particular but not exclusive emphasis on poetry written by Canadians. In addition to publishing and distributing the work of poets, ''Arc Poetry Magazine'' organizes and administers awards, contests, public readings and other events. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
