Heather Haley's Blog, page 20
June 2, 2015
Ginger island Girl Gone soon
I have been so tired. Hence, unmotivated. But the colds are finally over so I’m working to find some resolve, get some reading, editing, heck, maybe even some writing done this summer. Just used “charm offensive” in Botched Mission. I sent several revised poems to collaborators Victor Bonderoff and Mark Deutrom. Here’s something island themed, as […]
May 20, 2015
The Other 23 & a Half Hours: Or Everything You Wanted to Know that Your MFA Didn’t Teach You
A plug for poet and poetics dynamo Catherine Owen’s latest endeavour, book, The Other 23 & a Half Hours: Or Everything You Wanted to Know that Your MFA Didnt’ Teach You wherein I contribute to a discussion regarding multimedia work. Love the title and agree with the assertion. I don’t regret skipping out on the […]
May 19, 2015
ART SONG LAB approaches!
Earlier this year I was thrilled to be selected to participate in Art Song Lab 2015, a unique cultural event which pairs poets with composers. I feel fortunate to be collaborating with the talented Brian Topp. Our piece called Our Thirst, will premiere downtown Vancouver in a culminating concert, performed by classically trained performers. I’m […]
May 5, 2015
Hitting the Book Marketing Trail, Poetic Love Letters anthology review
Dear British, American friends, the e-book of my novel is on sale May 5-7 for .99! “Haley has the gift of writing to suit her subject in all its raddled variety, from wired and jarring to lyrical and tragic.” One could spend 24/7 on the Internet, and heaps of cash, promoting one’s book. Fortunately I […]
April 28, 2015
Haley Returns to Punk Past; ” the Town Slut’s Daughter reviewed in the Georgia Straight
“Heather Haley’s brash novel details the risky experiments that defined life in the subcultures of the late 1970s.” And 80s. And 90s, etcetera. I haven’t quit; stubborn that way. I do wish they’d credited Gabor Gasztonyi for his lovely portrait of the author but thank you books editor Brian Lynch, and Connie Kuhns, for the […]
April 18, 2015
GOODREADS giveaway!
I do what I can. So here you go, this coming Tuesday/Wednesday, just for one day. Please enter if you would like to win a copy of my novel, recently reviewed in newspapers across Canada: “Haley has the gift of writing to suit her subject in all its raddled variety, from wired and jarring to […]
April 14, 2015
The Case for Zine Culture
One of my first literary ventures, expressions, was a zine, published in America of all places. Edgy of course, Rattler, edited along with ex-husband filmmaker, writer and musician Peter Haskell, featured a significant number of now established Los Angeles poets, authors and artists. Despite brutal economic times and evolving technology, true to their nature, alternative […]
April 2, 2015
“Where Sins Are More Sinful”-Collaborating
Love collaborating. I’m working on spoken word songs with producer/guitarist Mark Deutrom, formerly of the Melvins and currently of Bell Ringer and Brian Topp, a Vancouver composer whom I’ve been paired with to create a piece for the Art Song Festival in June. This is a link to an Atticus Review story on my poem […]
March 31, 2015
Sad Anniversary. In honour of Dave Gregg, the elegiac poem I wrote last year
It’s been a year since our beloved Dave Gregg died. Too young, taken too soon. The shock lingers. Dave was a towering presence in more ways than one, a true rara avis, I had the great privilege of knowing him since our punk rock heyday, when he presided over Fort Gore and played in Private […]
Sad Anniversary. In honour of our beloved Dave Gregg, the elegiac poem I wrote last year.
It’s been a year since our beloved Dave Gregg died. Too young, taken too soon. The shock lingers. Dave was a towering presence in more ways than one, a true rara avis, I had the great privilege of knowing him since our punk rock heyday, when he presided over Fort Gore and played in Private […]
