The Ottawa X-Press has just run a magnificent review of Clare Latremouille's novel as well as Meghan Jackson's poetry collection, as a follow-up after the previous one Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston wrote on Monty Reid's Disappointment Island.
On another note, Chaudiere Books titles are now available in Ottawa at mother tongue books, Nicholas Hoare Books and Collected Works.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Monday, November 13, 2006
Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets launch, Ottawa
Chaudiere Books & the Ottawa Art Gallery invite you to the launch of the first in a series of anthologies of work by Ottawa area writers, the anthology Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets, featuring the work of Stephen Brockwell, Michelle Desbarats, Anita Dolman, Anne Le Dressay, Karen Massey, Una McDonnell, rob mclennan, Max Middle, Monty Reid and Shane Rhodes. A free event, lovingly hosted by Chaudiere Books editor/publisher rob mclennan, it happens Thursday, December 14, 2006 at 7pm at the Ottawa Art Gallery, Arts Court Building, 2 Daly Street (at Nicholas; beside the Rideau Centre; map to venue here). For more information, contact Chaudiere Books editor/co-publisher rob mclennan at az421@freenet.carleton.ca
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Monday, November 06, 2006
Clare Latremouille & Monty Reid at Collected Works Bookstore, Ottawa
Chaudiere Books and Collected Works present:
a reading by Monty Reid & Clare Latremouille
from their new Chaudiere Books titles
Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 7:30pm at Collected Works Bookstore
1242 Wellington Street West (at Holland), Ottawa
author bios:
Widely published as a poet and essayist, Monty Reid has produced a substantial volume of literary work. His volumes include The Life of Riley (Saskatoon SK: Thistledown Press, 1981), These Lawns (Red Deer AB: Red Deer College Press, 1990), The Alternate Guide (Red Deer College Press, 1995), Dog Sleeps (Edmonton AB: NeWest Press, 1993) and Flat Side (Red Deer College Press, 1998), a collection of new and selected poems, Crawlspace (Toronto ON: House of Anansi, 1993), and the chapbooks cuba A book (Ottawa ON: above/ground press, 2005) and Sweetheart of Mine (Toronto ON: BookThug, 2006). His work is also included in the anthology Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets, published as part of the first season of books by Chaudiere Books. He has won the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry three times and is also a three-time Governor General's Award nominee. He spent nearly twenty years working at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, in the heart of the Alberta badlands, before moving to the Ottawa area in 1999 to work at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Disappointment Island is his most recent poetry collection, newly out from Chaudiere Books.
Clare Latremouille has lived in numerous cities across Canada, and has published her work widely, including in the anthologies Written in the Skin (Insomniac Press, 1998), Shadowy Technicians: New Ottawa Poets (Broken Jaw Press, 2000) and Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press, 2003). Her novel The Desmond Road Book of the Dead is her first published book. She currently lives in Ottawa.
for more information, contact rob mclennan at az421@freeenet.carleton.ca
or go to www.collected-works.com
for more information on the books, check out www.chaudierebooks.com
a reading by Monty Reid & Clare Latremouille
from their new Chaudiere Books titles
Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 7:30pm at Collected Works Bookstore
1242 Wellington Street West (at Holland), Ottawa
author bios:
Widely published as a poet and essayist, Monty Reid has produced a substantial volume of literary work. His volumes include The Life of Riley (Saskatoon SK: Thistledown Press, 1981), These Lawns (Red Deer AB: Red Deer College Press, 1990), The Alternate Guide (Red Deer College Press, 1995), Dog Sleeps (Edmonton AB: NeWest Press, 1993) and Flat Side (Red Deer College Press, 1998), a collection of new and selected poems, Crawlspace (Toronto ON: House of Anansi, 1993), and the chapbooks cuba A book (Ottawa ON: above/ground press, 2005) and Sweetheart of Mine (Toronto ON: BookThug, 2006). His work is also included in the anthology Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets, published as part of the first season of books by Chaudiere Books. He has won the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry three times and is also a three-time Governor General's Award nominee. He spent nearly twenty years working at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, in the heart of the Alberta badlands, before moving to the Ottawa area in 1999 to work at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Disappointment Island is his most recent poetry collection, newly out from Chaudiere Books.
Clare Latremouille has lived in numerous cities across Canada, and has published her work widely, including in the anthologies Written in the Skin (Insomniac Press, 1998), Shadowy Technicians: New Ottawa Poets (Broken Jaw Press, 2000) and Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press, 2003). Her novel The Desmond Road Book of the Dead is her first published book. She currently lives in Ottawa.
for more information, contact rob mclennan at az421@freeenet.carleton.ca
or go to www.collected-works.com
for more information on the books, check out www.chaudierebooks.com
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Chaudiere Books: opening launch report
Our first launch through the ottawa international writers festival on October 26 went swimmingly; thanks to the festival, a crowd of fifty or so including Susan Newlove, John Lavery, Amanda [see her version of same here] and Charles Earl, Pearl Pirie [see her version of same here, way at the bottom], Sandra Ridley, Elizabeth Lapointe [see her version of same here], Stephen Brockwell, Michelle Desbarats, Max Middle, Emily Falvey, Mac Jamieson (one of the inventors of Applegarth Follies, precursor to current Brick Books), John MacDonald [see his version with very cool photos here], Steve Artelle, Tanya Sprowl, Anita Dolman, James Moran and Rhonda Douglas listened as Meghan Jackson, Clare Latremouille and Monty Reid launched their books, the first ever from our Chaudiere Books. Afterwards, we all went for drinks to Pubwells on Preston Street (the official pub of Chaudiere Books), and to catch the end of the hockey game (we handed Toronto their head…). Jennifer showed up later, after listening to the following event, a reading by author Patrick McCabe, author of, among other books, The Butcher Boy, which recently became her favourite novel and movie. Thanks very much to Cathy MacDonald-Zytveld and Tina-Frances Trineer for helping out with the event, and to Cheryl Meyhew for taking photos. Don't worry; if you missed it, you can still get books directly through us, or very soon in bookstores, and plans are already underway for a follow-up reading in town for Latremouille and Reid, possibly in early December.
Friday, October 27, 2006
Ottawa X-Press interview, first launch
Our first launch went swimmingly, with a nice interview and photo in The Ottawa X-Press here, thanks to Matthew Firth (unedited version of same on my own blog). Reports of the first event have already appeared by Amanda Earl and John W. MacDonald. Thanks to everyone who came out to show their support! A longer entry with photos will be up in a few days. Also, books are currently available directly through the website, or (in a few days) at mother tongue books, Collected Works Bookstore and Nicholas Hoare. Watch for information soon on the launch of Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets at the Ottawa Art Gallery on December 14th...
Sunday, October 15, 2006
TDR Profile: Ottawa's Chaudiere Books
Toronto's online The Danforth Review has just posted an interview with Chaudiere Books editor/co-publisher rob mclennan conducted by literary superstar Nathaniel G. Moore. If you can find a copy of the October issue of Quill & Quire, there's an impressive full page article on Chaudiere Books as well.
Sunday, October 01, 2006
Chaudiere Books launch, Ottawa
Chaudiere Books (rob mclennan & Jennifer Mulligan) & the ottawa international writers festival invite you to the launch of three of the first four Chaudiere Books titles on Thursday, October 26, 2006, 7pm at the National Library & Archives Building, 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa as organized by the ottawa international writers festival. A free event, lovingly hosted by Chaudiere Books editor/publisher rob mclennan. We will be launching Ottawa writer Clare Latremouille's first novel The Desmond Road Book of the Dead, Toronto-area Meghan Jackson's first poetry collection movements in jars, and former Alberta poet Monty Reid's first Ottawa poetry collection Disappointment Island.
On Clare Latremouille's The Desmond Road Book of the Dead:
In Clare Latremouille's debut novel, The Desmond Road Book of the Dead, she writes a story through the lives of multiple generations of women in a family line. Moving seamless through a lyric of decades, blood and voices, Latremouille works her story through a collage of prose and poetry to their compounded end, and her authorial voice is fierce, lyrical and impassioned. Once you step inside the doors of her house, it becomes impossible to leave.
On Monty Reid's Disappointment Island:
Since Alberta poet Monty Reid moved from badlands Alberta (Drumheller) to badlands Quebec (Aylmer) in April 1999, he has barely published at all, with his last trade collection Flat Side (Red Deer Press) appearing the fall before. Now that he has moved directly into the City of Ottawa, he gives us his Disappointment Island, made up of a sequence of sequences, including some that have previously appeared in editions by BookThug and above/ground press. Monty Reid takes the best of a small idea and stretches it, moving from poems that are short, individual, and even quick, and that resonate through simple information, in that way that feels almost Creeley-esque, to the extension of an idea pulled gracefully across the page. The winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry three times and a three-time Governor General's Award nominee, these may poems hold the weight of the emotional world on their shoulders, referencing bluegrass, the Gulf Islands and Cuba, as well as friends and lovers, and they never disappoint.
On Meghan Jackson's movements in jars:
Meghan Jackson's poems are a series of studies of small moments, like figures of fine glass. Formerly publishing quietly under the name meghan lynch, her movements in jars is a work honed and steeled over an extended period of time, and one that many of her readers have been waiting on with bated breath. Her poems are the alabaster that capture without destroying and explore and display without diminishing; hers is a sacred, scrying art.
for more information on the launch, call the ottawa international writers festival office at (613) 562 1243 or check out their website at www.writersfest.com ; for more information on the press (our official website will be launched soon), email rob mclennan at az421@freenet.carleton.ca or Jennifer Mulligan at jennifermulligan@sympatico.ca
Later in the fall, we will be launching the first in hopefully of a short series of anthologies of work by Ottawa area writers, the anthology Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets, featuring the work of Stephen Brockwell, Michelle Desbarats, Anita Dolman, Anne Le Dressay, Karen Massey, Una McDonnell, rob mclennan, Max Middle, Monty Reid and Shane Rhodes.
On Clare Latremouille's The Desmond Road Book of the Dead:
In Clare Latremouille's debut novel, The Desmond Road Book of the Dead, she writes a story through the lives of multiple generations of women in a family line. Moving seamless through a lyric of decades, blood and voices, Latremouille works her story through a collage of prose and poetry to their compounded end, and her authorial voice is fierce, lyrical and impassioned. Once you step inside the doors of her house, it becomes impossible to leave.
On Monty Reid's Disappointment Island:
Since Alberta poet Monty Reid moved from badlands Alberta (Drumheller) to badlands Quebec (Aylmer) in April 1999, he has barely published at all, with his last trade collection Flat Side (Red Deer Press) appearing the fall before. Now that he has moved directly into the City of Ottawa, he gives us his Disappointment Island, made up of a sequence of sequences, including some that have previously appeared in editions by BookThug and above/ground press. Monty Reid takes the best of a small idea and stretches it, moving from poems that are short, individual, and even quick, and that resonate through simple information, in that way that feels almost Creeley-esque, to the extension of an idea pulled gracefully across the page. The winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry three times and a three-time Governor General's Award nominee, these may poems hold the weight of the emotional world on their shoulders, referencing bluegrass, the Gulf Islands and Cuba, as well as friends and lovers, and they never disappoint.
On Meghan Jackson's movements in jars:
Meghan Jackson's poems are a series of studies of small moments, like figures of fine glass. Formerly publishing quietly under the name meghan lynch, her movements in jars is a work honed and steeled over an extended period of time, and one that many of her readers have been waiting on with bated breath. Her poems are the alabaster that capture without destroying and explore and display without diminishing; hers is a sacred, scrying art.
for more information on the launch, call the ottawa international writers festival office at (613) 562 1243 or check out their website at www.writersfest.com ; for more information on the press (our official website will be launched soon), email rob mclennan at az421@freenet.carleton.ca or Jennifer Mulligan at jennifermulligan@sympatico.ca
Later in the fall, we will be launching the first in hopefully of a short series of anthologies of work by Ottawa area writers, the anthology Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets, featuring the work of Stephen Brockwell, Michelle Desbarats, Anita Dolman, Anne Le Dressay, Karen Massey, Una McDonnell, rob mclennan, Max Middle, Monty Reid and Shane Rhodes.
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