Writing – Page 2 – Phoebe Ka-Ir Wang

This was my view

January 4, 2015

This was the view during two weeks in December I spent on holiday in Dipper Harbour, a small fishing community on the Bay of Fundy east of Saint John, New Brunswick. I’d watch the lobster boats come in on early afternoons while editing, and a few hours later darkness would catch the sky in its big, embracing net. More…

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Dipper Harbour, Endings, Lobster, New Brunswick, Poetry, Publishing, Revising

Review of Helen Guri’s Match

March 17, 2014

The first book review I wrote was on request. Helen Guri asked me to review her debut with Coach House, Match, in the fall of 2011. It’d barely gotten the attention it deserved, though things were beginning to seethe– CWILA formed around that time, pointing to the dearth of reviews of women-authored books in Canadian publishing. I…

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Canadian poetry, Coach House, echolocation, Helen Guri, Reviews

On the making of chapbooks and other spare change

November 22, 2013

Last night, I put on my oxford heels to read with four poets at the Odourless Press fall launch. With nearly every fiction writer in town at the Writers’ Trust gala, the evening felt like a tiny cushioned drawer, intimate as a library of rare tobaccos. Occasional Emergencies is a 12 poem series of mostly-ekphrastic poems, published in…

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Bardia Sinaee, Chapbooks, Ferno House, Jeramy Dodds, Mat Laporte, Micropresses, Odourless Press, Poetry, Poetry and Business, Small Presses, Spencer Gordon, Stevie Howell