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Ten Questions with Jason Camlot
Jason Camlot is the author of The Animal Library, Attention All Typewriters and The Debaucher. His poems and critical essays have appeared widely in journals and anthologies including New American...
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Featured Poetry: Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems by Alessandro Porco
Alessandro Porco (ECW Press, 2008) Equally crude and charming, locker-room macho and sensitive, these poems are always singularly marked by formal ingenuity and stylistic élan. A poetry that gleefully...
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Must-Read Interview: Carolyn Smart with Alessandro Porco
AP: Carolyn, your new book, Hooked, (Brick, 2009), is a collection of seven dramatic monologues by seven rather infamous women, including, for example, serial killer Myra Hindley, who participated in...
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“Shivering Romantic”: An Interview with Chris Hutchinson
By Alessandro PorcoAP: Chris, I think that, indeed, you are a “shivering romantic,” to borrow a phrase from the opening poem of your latest poetry collection, Other People’s Lives. Could you talk about...
View ArticleThe ReLit Longlists
The longlists for the 2009 ReLit Awards have been announced. The ReLit Awards recognize books by Canadian authors that are published by independent Canadian presses. Founded in 2000, each year ReLit...
View ArticleOBT's 2009 Winter Magazine
Open Book's 2009 Winter Magazine is online. In this issue:The latest installment of our ever-popular 48-Hour Interview series. "Not Your Mother's Library" features Morgan Cowie, BookNet Canada's...
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Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems
Alessandro Porco (ECW Press, 2008) Equally crude and charming, locker-room macho and sensitive, these poems are always singularly marked by formal ingenuity and stylistic élan. A poetry that gleefully...
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The Jill Kelly Poems
Alessandro Porco (ECW Press, 2005) Adult-film diva Jill Kelly, in all her splendid forms (performer, producer, writer and director), serves as the ultimate 21st century icon in Alessandro Porco's The...
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The Jill Kelly Poems
Alessandro Porco (ECW Press, 2005) Adult-film diva Jill Kelly, in all her splendid forms (performer, producer, writer and director), serves as the ultimate 21st century icon in Alessandro Porco's The...
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June Book Giveaway: Augustine in Carthage by WIR Alessandro Porco
We're thrilled to announce that Alessandro Porco is Open Book's June Writer-in-Residence. On his WIR page, you'll find his blog, his reading and website recommendations and his Ten Questions with Open...
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On Writing, with Meaghan Strimas
Meaghan Strimas, author of A Good Time Had By All (Exile Editions), talks to Open Book about her writing process and the Canadian authors she admires. Open Book: Toronto:Tell us about your latest book,...
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Poets in Profile: Stephen Cain
You may have fond memories of Goodnight Moon or The Owl and the Pussycat, but now that you're a bit more world-weary, these tired children's classics may need a twist of bitters to make them palatable...
View ArticleLiterary Holiday Parties: Beattie, McGimpsey, Porco
You're having a holiday party, and can invite any number of literary figures, living, dead, or fictional - who's invited, and why? Here and in the coming weeks, I'll post the many answers I received to...
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The Entitled Interview with Alessandro Porco
Alessandro Porco is a poet, critic and scholar and is currently an Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.His latest collection, Poems by Gerard Legro (BookThug),...
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