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things that have been cut to pieces

things that have been cut to pieces
Jordan Abel

Narrative Clocks

Meredith Quartermain

The Library and its Uses

The Library and its Uses
Alex Leslie

Narrative Eyes

Narrative Eyes
Meredith Quartermain

from Head Out: (A letter, essay, poem - for C.S. Giscombe

Barry McKinnon

The Big Bad World of Public Readings

The Big Bad World of Public Readings
Pierre Coupey

That was Now, This is Then: 2012/2013 Pre-and-Review

That was Now, This is Then: 2012/2013 Pre-and-Review
Stephen Collis

40th Anniversary Web(b) Folio

40th Anniversary Web(b) Folio
Stephen Collis

The Night We Hijacked Leonard Cohen, with digressions

Pierre Coupey

Chairs in the Time Machine / An Excerpt

Barry McKinnon

In The Dark, Be Free

In The Dark, Be Free
FIT at The Waldorf Hotel September 14th, 2012 Vancouver BC

4/4: Rita Wong is Downstream

Every day this summer I biked down to one of Vancouver’s local beaches and swam. After my swim I drank ...

4/4: Portraits of Self and You - Aisha Sasha John

Kim Minkus

4/4: Meredith Quartermain's Radical Acts

Kim Minkus

Pierre Coupey: illumination out of the ashes

Reflections on the work of Pierre Coupey by Charlene Vickers

4/4: The Spectacle of Absence - Gillian Jerome on the CWILA Count

Kim Minkus

Unlearn. Don't do. Re-imagine.

Unlearn. Don't do. Re-imagine.
Jasmine Reimer on making art and change.

Acknowledging Coast Surreal Territory

Acknowledging Coast Surreal Territory
Garry Thomas Morse

Jasmine Reimer in Conversation with Jasmine Reimer Part 1: The Soft Side

Jasmine Reimer; psychoanalytical, obsessive intellectual thinker interviews Jasmine Reimer intuitive, passionate, inquisitive artist. May 19, 2012. Vancouver, BC Canada.

Poetry 'Commutiny' in the Couve (It’s a Riot!)

Poetry 'Commutiny' in the Couve (It’s a Riot!)
Garry Thomas Morse

Two National Magazine Award nominations for TCR!

Congratulations George Bowering and Lisa Robertson!

What Literature Wants

What Literature Wants
by Marie-Hélène Tessier

Tom Cone 1947-2012

Tom Cone 1947-2012
A Memorial to celebrate Tom's life will be held on Sunday, April 29th, at the Granville Island Stage on Granville Island at 4:30 p.m.

Laureating

Laureating
Pauline Butling

ecologies building blog 6: thinking with salmon

ecologies building blog 6: thinking with salmon
by Chris Glen

ecologies building blog 5: so…um… The Future is Friendly

ecologies building blog 5: so…um… The Future is Friendly
by Chris Glen

ecologies building blog 4: modernity’s conceit and the IPCC

ecologies building blog 4: modernity’s conceit and the IPCC
by Chris Glen

ecologies building blog 3: expectations of modernity

ecologies building blog 3: expectations of modernity
by Chris Glen

ecologies building blog 2: food webs

ecologies building blog 2: food webs
by Chris Glen

ecologies building blog 1: disturbance

ecologies building blog 1: disturbance
by Chris Glen

Tom Cone Day -- March 25th

Tom Cone Day -- March 25th
TCR congratulates Tom Cone on his much deserved Mayor’s Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement in Arts and Culture. Tom's birthday, March 25th, has been declared Tom Cone Day in Vancouver.

Colin Browne on Tom Cone

Colin Browne on Tom Cone
Colin's introduction at the Mayor's Arts Award ceremony at the VAG, March 8, 2012.

Eleni Sikelianos on dg nanouk okpik

I’ve just been reading dg nanouk okpik’s first manuscript, Corpse Whale, which will soon become a book. I first met ...

The playwright whose name rimes with the title of his most famous play

The playwright whose name rimes with the title of his most famous  play
by George Bowering

sublime slime

sublime slime
Eleni Sikelianos

Lines

by Marie-Hélène Tessier

Holes

Holes
by Marie-Hélène Tessier

Precarious labour, conceptual poetry, and work writing

Clint Burnham

Dirty concrete poetry in a clean gallery

Dirty concrete poetry in a clean gallery
by Clint Burnham

Hooray, Difficulty!

George Bowering

Eco-poetics and its discontents

Eco-poetics and its discontents
Is Ken Belford's poetry pastoral? asks Clint Burnham

watch for new blog posts . . .

Follow Clint Burnham, Marie-Hélène Tessier, Eleni Sikelianos, Chris Glen,  Lisa Robertson,  Pauline Butling, and George Bowering

Pauline Butling

on LISA ROBERTSON:  A “foundering”

Lisa Robertson

Lisa Robertson
Object Permanence

Slow reading

Lisa Robertson

rob mclennan

Roy Kiyooka’s Pacific Windows

rob mclennan

rob mclennan
The Capilano Review blog: collaborating with Lea Graham

George Bowering

George Bowering
on collecting . . .

Lisa Robertson

Lisa Robertson
The Cabins

rob mclennan

there is no falling: Robert Hogg

rob mclennan

rob mclennan
There was something about the body: Sylvia Legris

Pauline Butling

Pauline Butling
remembering Robert Kroetsch

George Bowering on

George Bowering on
Kroetsch the Listener

AUDIO / Robert Kroetsch reading at Capilano College

AUDIO / Robert Kroetsch reading at Capilano College
November 6, 1980

Letter Six on Value and Poetry

Chris Nealon

Letter Five on Value and Poetry

Joshua Clover

Neoliberalism & the Death of Memory

The planetary collapse is not my fault – Google ate my memory.

Letter Four on Value and Poetry

Chris Nealon

Bioregionalism & Ecopoetry

What distinguishes ecopoetry from nature poetry?

Letter Three on Value and Poetry

Joshua Clover

Letter Two on Value and Poetry

Chris Nealon

Letter One on Value and Poetry

Joshua Clover

A certain slant of light: Stanley and "Terrace Landscapes"

Looking at and through "Terrace Landscapes"

George Stanley and baseball

George Stanley and baseball
Some notes on George Bowering's "Two Bits on the Green Guy"

VIDEO / Christian Bok

VIDEO / Christian Bok
Christian Bök reads "Flarf, Arf, Arf, Arf!" at a TCR event last year. "Flarf, Arf Arf Arf!" appears in TCR 3.13 Manifestos Now!

George Stanley Issue Launch + Tribute to Jenny Penberthy

George Stanley Issue Launch + Tribute to Jenny Penberthy
The launch of the George Stanley issue at the Sylvia Hotel Bistro on May 18, 2011 was a great success.

Back to the Future - The Return of DIY Publishing

Back to the Future - The Return of DIY Publishing
Dale Peck slams big publishers and Amazon, calls on authors to form collectives to control the production and sale of their creative output... reminiscent of Vancouver's vibrant indy press scene nearly half a century earlier.

Comes with Instructions

Comes with Instructions
A note about Stanley's poetics and pedagogy.

The George Stanley Chair of Poetry

The George Stanley Chair of Poetry
The George Stanley Chair of Poetry is a thing and an idea.

Launch Party -- George Stanley Issue

Launch Party -- George Stanley Issue
Remember that episode of Star Trek or NCIS where the leaders of all the planets/free nations are gathered in one place, and our pulse quickens as the scriptwriters jack the stakes with an unseen threat of obliteration?

AUDIO / George Stanley reads a prose statement about poetry

Recorded at the San Francisco / Vancouver Poetry Conference at UBC in March 1970. 12 mins (first 30 secs muffled)

AUDIO / from the Audio Archives . . . George Stanley

AUDIO / from the Audio Archives . . . George Stanley
George Stanley reading his poems at Capilano College, November 23, 1978 -- introduced by Pierre Coupey. 49 mins

Welcome to our new home-on-the-web!

We're very happy to have launched a special issue on George Stanley. Let us know what you think of the issue and of our new website. Watch for our guest blogs, read our free online supplement called ti-TCR | a web folio, listen to recordings from TCR archives, and quite a lot more . . .

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