Tuesday December 27th, 2011 in
Reviews Tongue 10 from Laurel Reed Books is out in all its profundity and entertainment. This brilliant 26 page starkly black & white chapbook begins with a quote from Joe Louis on the inside page: “Everyone has a plan until they get hit.”
Much of the text is Letterplay. There’s a proper poetic [...]
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Thursday December 1st, 2011 in
Reviews The red-haired Glenna who sings at many local venues, has a new CD called ‘TREE TOONZ. where she is dressed as a guitar-playing Christmas Tree. Tree Toonz, which retails for $20, includes New Years and has such favorites as “Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake,’ and ‘Sleigh Ride.’
You can pick one up personally [...]
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Tuesday November 22nd, 2011 in
Reviews“Breathe, chant, listen, sing, connect, improvise,’ it says on the half of the ticket remaining to me when I went to celebrate the music that has come out of Wendy’s Soulful Singing Gatherings which meet weekly here in Kingston, Ontario and environs.
The meeting was held on the stage of this candlelit old church [...]
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Wednesday September 14th, 2011 in
Reviews Montreal Poet, Czandra, is a graceful woman with the classical good looks of Virginia Woolf. She has a new chapbook from Sitting Duck & Broken Rules Presses. I have #7 of the first print run of 120. ($12) from 6871 rue d’Iberville, Montreal, PQ H2G 2C9 Canada
When opened up, [...]
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Saturday July 23rd, 2011 in
Newspapers,
ReviewsDisclaimer: I don’t subscribe to any but for years I’ve bought, read and discussed 6 papers daily. I’ve had features in most from time to time, letters in all but no affiliation with any. No one is bias free but I try to have an objective viewpoint. For certain, I’m probably a good fit for [...]
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Sunday July 3rd, 2011 in
In My Life Stuff,
ReviewsTHE MOVIE SPOILER.com SPOILER ARCHIVE
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON
NOTE: Here is a Classic spoiler from Rose who says… “This is my favorite film. The music is superb.(Three separate classic renditions of Blue Moon.) There is no explicit nudity, the violence is subtle and the gore really not that bad.”
Moody shots lead us deep [...]
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Sunday June 26th, 2011 in
Poems,
Reviews She’s been on welfare. Tara says that right up front in an interview on youtube. (Link on right). Titles of the work in her new book give you some idea of what she’s been through: Past Hope, Sadness, I Didn’t Count On This, Hunger, Love Is Like Death, This Yearning, There’s A Funeral [...]
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Saturday August 7th, 2010 in
In My Life Stuff,
Reviews Just finished, ‘Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott & Her Father,” by John Matteson. At first I was suspicious. The book is footnoted and I suspected it of academia (oh cursed word) but it turned out to be simply scholarly, objective and a great quoter of their work by someone with a [...]
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Tuesday August 3rd, 2010 in
Book,
ReviewsDespite one book being unfortunately PINK, Purves lets you into how women feel in mid-family raising. In these novels you’ll get it too. (Free Woman, Casting Off). She shows you how a family operates, what can tear it down, build it up. A modern Dickens but not as long-winded, Purves KNOWS who these women are.
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