Jonathan Ball's Blog, page 61
April 7, 2013
Me Reading: Amber Dawn
Early morning, unshaven and unkempt, Glenn Gould in the background.
April 6, 2013
Me Reading: Jeanette Lynes
A new feature on the site, since I just figured out the iPhone has a “turnaround-y camera thing” (technical term).
April 1, 2013
Deluded Your Sailors by Michelle Butler Hallett
My review of Deluded Your Sailors by Michelle Butler Hallett is online at The Winnipeg Review.
Jess Walter on characterization
“What does this character want?” . . . We want it all. We want everything, and when we get it we won’t be happy.
March 30, 2013
An early poem by yours truly. (“The Haunted House”)
Here is my whole aesthetic in microcosm: horror, comedy, surreality, insanity.
March 23, 2013
March Poetry Review Column (Winnipeg Free Press)
My monthly poetry review column is online at the Winnipeg Free Press, this month featuring:
* Red Doc> by Anne Carson
* Please, No More Poetry by derek beaulieu (ed. Kit Dobson)
* RUSH: what fuckan theory: a study uv langwage by bill bissett (eds. derek beaulieu and Lori Emerson
* The Lease by Mathew Henderson
March 22, 2013
The Politics of Knives reviewed in ARC
Linda Besner published an intelligent review of the book in ARC that I just discovered. She has some insightful comments about how I place the reader in the role of an adversary, although she doesn’t seem to like that as much as I do.
Just a brief note: Count Westwest may be a writer of online fan fiction, but he is also the actual count that rules the Castle in Kafka’s novel.
Readings in Toronto (April 11) & St. Catharines (April 12)
Watch out, Toronto & St. Catharines! Knives will rain from the sky!
