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Frank Styles: Jamie Reid, 1941-2015
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Kevin McNeilly on Poetry, Music, Improvisation and Other Things. Jamie Reid, 1941-2015. I have just learned this morning that the poet Jamie Reid. Has died. He was, as many know, a co-founder of TISH. At UBC in 1961, and played significant role in the revitalization of West Coast Canadian poetry. Deeply engaged as an activist with fostering social change, he spent a number of years out of the poetry circuit, but the 1994 book that marked his return to poetry – Prez: Homage to Lester Young. And at Flow, F...
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Frank Styles: March 2014
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Kevin McNeilly on Poetry, Music, Improvisation and Other Things. Hearing John K. Samson's "Highway One West". We have been reading John K. Samson. 8217;s Lyrics and Poems 1997-2012. In one of my current undergraduate classes. One of things I want to interrogate critically about this book is the nature of that “and” in its title: what can these texts tell us, as close readers and as attentive listeners, about the relationship between lyrics and lyric, between song and poem? Questions of where I am and whe...
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Frank Styles: December 2014
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Kevin McNeilly on Poetry, Music, Improvisation and Other Things. All Good Possibles: Ken Babstock, On Malice. Read last Tuesday evening at Book Warehouse on Main St., for the Vancouver launch of his latest collection On Malice. Which appeared a little earlier this fall from Coach House Books. Given the complexities of this poetry and my own limited space here, I’m going to concentrate on making an initial foray into reading “SIGINT,” rather than attempting to come to terms with the book...About his son S...
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Frank Styles: Video: Reading Marilyn Hacker's "Fourteen"
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Kevin McNeilly on Poetry, Music, Improvisation and Other Things. Video: Reading Marilyn Hacker's "Fourteen". This is a test video for a series of video-podcast discussions of poems and of media for my courses this fall. In April, for National Poetry Month, I decided to discuss and then read one of my favourite poems, the sonnet “Fourteen” by Marilyn Hacker. A blog post here. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Kevin McNeilly's homepage, with poetry, audio, video, interviews and more. Recent and Necessary...
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Frank Styles: May 2015
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Kevin McNeilly on Poetry, Music, Improvisation and Other Things. Elise Partridge: Particulars of Uncertain Provenance. I ended up sitting front and centre on a folding chair at the Vancouver launch for Elise Partridge. 8217;s new and last collection. The Exiles’ Gallery. To a packed house on Thursday evening, March 21, at the Cottage Bistro (formerly the Rhizome Café. To mark the publication of The Exile’s Gallery. The Challenge of Phillis Wheatley (poem). It’s essentially a poetry appreciation cou...
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Frank Styles: Dave Douglas HIGH RISK at Performance Works, 28 June 2015
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Kevin McNeilly on Poetry, Music, Improvisation and Other Things. Dave Douglas HIGH RISK at Performance Works, 28 June 2015. 8217;s electro-acoustic quartet HIGH RISK offered a dynamic, edgy and intense set at Performance Works (in Vancouver) yesterday evening. Fusing layered, pulse-driven techno with Douglas’s Freddie-Keppard. Label – and while each member of the ensemble (Douglas on trumpet, Jonathan Maron. On electric bass, Mark Guiliana. On drums and Shigeto. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Kevin ...
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Frank Styles: April 2014
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Kevin McNeilly on Poetry, Music, Improvisation and Other Things. Reading Out Loud Together, with Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Renee Sarojini Saklikar. I’m sincerely grateful to Erin Fields, Melanie Cassidy and Trish Rosseel of the UBC Library for inviting me, Elee Kraljii Gardiner. And Renee Sarojini Saklikar. To read beside the fireplace in the commons on the main floor of the Koerner Library. Elee read poems from her manuscript Serpentine Loop. Voices are low yet perforate the liminal
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Frank Styles: February 2015
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Kevin McNeilly on Poetry, Music, Improvisation and Other Things. Briefly, Taylor Ho Bynum and Francois Houle Duo at The Apartment, Vancouver, August 29, 2014. On the night of Friday, August 29, Taylor Ho Bynum played a duo concert with François Houle at The Apartment, a small gallery on East Pender, just off Main Street in Vancouver’s Chinatown. On his website, and has put up excerpts of his musical encounters – some planned, some by happenstance – on a Sound Cloud page. And here is a. Which is dedicated...
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Frank Styles: Samuel Blaser, Francois Houle, Aram Bajakian, Torsten Mueller at Ironworks, Tuesday June 23, 2015
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Kevin McNeilly on Poetry, Music, Improvisation and Other Things. Samuel Blaser, Francois Houle, Aram Bajakian, Torsten Mueller at Ironworks, Tuesday June 23, 2015. Aram Bajakian, Francois Houle, Samuel Blaser, Torsten Mueller. A five o’clock set at Ironworks on Tuesday opened with the duo of Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser. And Vancouverite François Houle. S Art of the Duo. 1988), which built on Konitz’s 1967 Duets. He and Houle offer a multimodal, polymorphic and richly evocative music. Aram Bajakian, Sa...
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