AngelHousePress Celebrates National Poetry Month with Conyer, Ellen and Amanda on April 13, 2024 2pmAngelHousePress Celebrates National Poetry Month with Conyer, Ellen and Amanda on April 13, 2024 2pm
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AngelHousePress Celebrates National Poetry Month with Conyer Clayton, Ellen Chang-Richardson and Amanda Earl

Saturday, April 13, 2024 2pm EDT on Zoom

a free reading sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets

 

Ellen, Conyer and Amanda will read recent and forthcoming poetry.

Register in advance to receive Zoom link in confirmation e-mail

 

Conyer Clayton is an award-winning writer and editor from Kentucky now living in Ottawa, whose multi-genre work often explores grief, disability, addiction, and gender-based violence through a surrealist lens. Their latest book is But the sun, and the ships, and the fish, and the waves. (Winner of the Archibald Lampman Award, Anvil Press). They are a Senior Editor at Augur, Nonfiction Editor for untethered magazine, and guest edited issues of CV2 and Room Magazine. You can find their nonfiction and poetry in Best Canadian Poetry 2023, This Magazine, Room Magazine, filling station, Canthius, Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2, The Capilano Review, and others. Photo credit: Curtis Perry.

 

Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent living on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. The author/co-author of six poetry chapbooks, their writing has appeared in journals and anthologies across Turtle Island including Augur, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Ex-Puritan, third coast magazine and Watch Your Head. They are an editorial member of Room magazine, a poetry editor for long con magazine, the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series and a member of the poetry collective VII. Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn) is their debut collection. Photo credit: Curtis Perry.

 

Amanda Earl (she/her) is a queer writer, reviewer, visual poet, editor, and publisher who lives on Algonquin Anishinaabeg traditional territory, colonially known as Ottawa, Ontario. Earl is managing editor of Bywords.ca, and editor of Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry.  Her latest book is Beast Body Epic, a collection of long poems about her near-death health crisis. Her latest chapbook is Seasons, an excerpt from Welcome to Upper Zygonia. Amanda is grateful for funding from the Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant Program for Writers. Photo credit: Charles Earl.



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Beast Body Epic is for anyone who’s circled the drain or knows someone who has. The book is about having the shit kicked out of you & surviving.

 

"Amanda Earl’s Beast Body Epic delivers on the promise of its title, fusing visual, lyric, and narrative poems with classical mythology to tell a story that’s part body horror, part fever dream, and part testament of survival from a poet who refuses to die. " Jim Johnstone, author of The King of Terrors

 

"Beast Body Epic is a hypnotic chronicle of illness and recovery witnessed through a kaleidoscopic looking-glass. Equally tender and brutal with honesty, Earl gives us a beguiling long-form poem about what the body and spirit can endure and how we can survive and thrive. Wisdom crafts this work, a deeply lived understanding that can only come from enduring the unendurable. Luscious and wildly resonant, Beast Body Epic will astound, move, and give you strength."  Sandra Ridley, author of Vixen

 

“In Beast Body Epic, Amanda Earl refracts the experience of unwellness through an assortment of communications. She leans into visual poetry, the epic, allusion, disassociation, memoir, verse, prose, fable, allegory, and other modes in order to tell a complex story in a surprisingly succinct work. The variation is not only necessary, it’s seamless, and Amanda’s text flows with the protagonist through crisis into stasis and onward.“  Elee Kraljii Gardiner, An Introduction to Beast Body Epic.


Launches are taking place in Montreal (November 5, 2023, Accent Reading Series, 7:30pm); and on Zoom (November 12, 2023 2pm).  More info on readings, reviews and interviews will also be available on AmandaEarl.com.


Click here to purchase via Paypal. If you don't use Paypal, email amanda at angelhousepress dot com for alternative arrangements .






The Small Machine Talks #112 with Frances Boyle on the Poetic Elements of Fiction
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I enjoyed discussing the poetic elements of fiction with Frances Boyle on the latest episode of the Small Machine Talks. We talk about books by Michael Ondaatje, Shawna LeMay, Marilynne Robinson, Esi Edugyan, Elaine Feeney and Arundhati Roy.


SMT 111 Mudlarking with Ariel Gordon
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I had a fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable conversation with writer Ariel Gordon about mudlarking and its relationship to her writing on the Small Machine Talks. We even read some of Siteseeing together, a collaborative poetry collection with Brenda Schmidt. This is the last of our extra-literary thread on the show. Listen here: https://smallmachinetalks.com/index.php/podcast/episode-111-mudlarking-with-ariel-gordon/



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AngelHousePress presents Experiment-O Issue 16, dedicated to those who dwell in the blur. Contributions by Bandukwala, Crowson, Hadzic, McLaren, Racovitza, Rodriguez, Sandhu, Scala, Sung & Tabios. https://experiment-o.com/



Beast Body Epic, A Miramichi Reader Best Poetry Book of 2023Beast Body Epic, A Miramichi Reader Best Poetry Book of 2023
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The Miramichi Reader has chosen Beast Body Epic as one of its favourite poetry titles of 2023. Thank you to TM and congratulations to the poets.