Tour des Arts Reading

I'll be reading once again at the Tour des Arts English reading in Sutton, Quebec, on Tuesday, July 16 (tonight!). I've read at or hosted this annual event for most of the past thirteen years, I believe. It's fun! I'll be reading some newish, unpublished poems. Hope to see you there!

http://www.tourdesarts.com

Chair auction this Saturday in Sutton!

My chair is one of the chosen! I was surprised and delighted that the director and the curator of the Musée des beaux arts de Sherbrooke selected my chair amongst twelve for a live auction --a fundraising event for Sutton's cultural centre-- from the fifty wonderful chairs done by local artists. The vernissage was a couple of weeks ago. The culminating event is tomorrow evening. I'm a bit nervous: the bidding starts at $500.

http://thechairproject-projetchaise.blogspot.ca/p/events.html

Poetry chair

I was asked to do this chair as part of a fundraising campaign for a cultural centre in Sutton, Quebec. As you can see, I was directly inspired by designer David Drummond's striking cover for the colour. It will soon be available for sale.

http://thechairproject-projetchaise.blogspot.ca/2012/04/susan-briscoe.html?spref=fb

Yet more attention for the cover design!

David Drummond's brilliant cover design for my book keeps attracting attention. This time it won a cover design contest at Abe Books. (I only voted in one round!)
http://www.abebooks.com/books/March-Madness/book-bracket.shtml

A blogger's reflections on my book

Just found this blog post.

http://poetcourtney.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-books-to-read.html

A wonderful review

I just happened upon this review of my book by David Leahy in Canadian Literature. An unexpected Sunday gift.

"Briscoe has a talent for dissecting, often via stunning figurative juxtapositions, the lurking threats and paradoxes of our relationships to a deceptively idyllic world."

http://canlit.ca/reviews/divining_the_elegiac

My Poetry Quebec interview is up

Check out this link to my recent email interview with PQ, Poetry Quebec.

http://www.poetry-quebec.com/pq/interview/article_482.shtml

More book design attention!

Designer David Drummond deserves all the the credit and congratulations here. His cover design for The Crow's Vow has been selected by AIGA as one of the best of the year. This means the book will be in the Denver Art Museum and Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, as well as exhibited at the AIGA National Design Center in New York and elsewhere. Pretty cool!

http://designarchives.aiga.org/#/entries/%2Bcollections%3A%2250%20Books%2F50%20Covers%20of%202010%22/_/slideshow/relevance/asc/37/7/0/title/1

http://www.aiga.org/about-50-50/

The cover is also featured on Canadian Bookshelf's blog with a flock of other bird-bedecked books!

http://canadianbookshelf.com/

Vehicule blog

I'm not so good at reading blogs on a regular basis, though there are several I find quite worthwhile when I catch up with them. And now and then there's the surprise of a mention of my poetry. Just found a poem of mine on the Vehicule blog, thanks to my very own editor, Carmine Starnino. Check out the lovely Sunday poems and other poetic posts.

http://vehiculepress.blogspot.com/

Knowlton Wordfest reading

Had a great time tonight at Knowlton Wordfest's spoken word event. I read a few poems to Stanley Lake's jazz trio accompaniment--which worked surprisingly well considering that my poems are not really jazzy. And the moon rose right behind me just as I was reading about the moon.

Another wonderful review!

Reviews are almost always a surprise, and I am very lucky that mine have been of the best sort. Thanks to Garry Thomas Morse for this one.

http://www.poetry-quebec.com/pq/review/article_442.shtml

And a recorded interview

I thought this interview would be really embarrassing, but it's not so bad after all! It was done in a stairwell (you can hear people clomping by) after my Art Bar reading last fall.

http://igmagogon.podomatic.com/entry/2011-04-03T19_23_32-07_00

A recorded reading

A recording of me reading at the Art Bar last November.

http://igmagogon.podomatic.com/entry/2011-03-17T13_30_47-07_00

Lampert jurors' comments

Here are the Lampert judges' comments on the shortlisted books. They make all the books sounds wonderful! http://poets.ca/linktext/awards/Lampert%20PR%20Long%20Form%2011.pdf

Gerald Lampert Shortlist!

So pleased to be shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, which names the year's best first book by a Canadian poet. The shortlist of six came out this week; the winner will be announced June 11th. I feel very honoured. http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/04/05/nominees-for-the-gerald-lampert-and-pat-lowther-awards-announced/

Another great review!

Here is the link to another review/interview, this one by Dean Steadman for Arc Poetry Magazine. http://www.arcpoetry.ca/2011/03/28/briscoe-illuminates-human-need-by-the-season/

Pilot Reading

I'll be reading at the Pilot Reading Series on Sunday, March 27th at Sparrow on St-Laurent in Montreal. My reading partner Antony Di Nardo will also be there. Hope to see you too!

A Lemon Hound "most engaging book" of 2010!

I am very pleased that my book made Lemon Hound's "most engaging" list. Here's the link where you can read her comments:

http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2010/12/most-engaging-books-of-2010.html

Art Bar reading

I'll be reading tonight with Antony Di Nardo at Toronto's Art Bar -- which is actually at Clinton's (Clinton and Bloor). The reading starts at eight.

Sanders Pinault vernissage

Another art exhibit featuring work based on my poems! This show will include sculpture and prints by Sutton artist Sanders Pinault. Previously, Sanders has also created work inspired by Quebec poet Anne Hebert.

I feel tremendously honoured that my poetry has inspired others to create art (I've heard of a songwriter working on something too!) and I'm very excited to see how my work is interpreted, especially by an artist as sensitive and talented as Sanders.

The opening is this Friday, November 5th from 6-8 at Le Cafetier on rue Principale in Sutton, Quebec. The show continues for a month.

I'll be there!