Want to catch your favourite Black Moss Author performing a public reading? We’ve compiled a list of upcoming readings from our 2011/2012 authors. Check out a reading near you! June 17 – Terry Ann Carter – League of Canadian Poets AGM, book launch for Day Moon Rising, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. June 17 – Bernice Lever – poetry reading for League of… Read more »
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Photos from The Punctuation Field Book Launch
Elizabeth Zetlin launched her book The Punctuation Field earlier this month at the Downtown Bookstore in Owen Sound, Ontario. Liz read with Owen Sound Poet Laureate Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and audience members enjoyed punctuation truffles by Theo. Enjoy these photos from the launch!
It’s More Than Fame, It’s Community Pride: Poet Laureates
By Black Moss Press interns Jaclyn Wood, Rebecca Taylor, and Kristina Storey The City of Windsor is currently looking for their first Poet Laureate. The Ancient Greeks would pay tribute to their most notable poets by giving them this title; the Poet Laureate would be responsible for writing odes, which would celebrate royal events, such as… Read more »
Andrew Armitage reviews The Punctuation Field
Andrew Armitage has written a glowing review of Elizabeth Zetlin’s The Punctuation Field for the Owen Sound Sun Times. He writes: “Liz Zetlin’s poems are a reading gift, a donation to stretching our creative minds. They can be read, over and over, each reading bringing new meaning, new recognitions.” Read the full review here.
Black Moss Press Fall 2011 Book Launches Announced
Black Moss Press is excited to launch our Fall 2011 line of books! Here are the details for upcoming book launches. More to come! Coming to Terms with a Child – Henry Beissel Thursday, Sept. 15th, 7pm Collected Works Bookstore 1242 Wellington St. West Ottawa, Ontario www.collected-works.com The Pillow Books – Karen… Read more »
The Punctuation Field
A newcomer to the Black Moss family, but certainly not a newcomer in the literary world, Elizabeth Zetlin releases her seventh book of poetry, The Punctuation Field. As the readers work their way through this delicately cultivated collection of nature poems, they are able to follow the blueprints of Liz’s imagination as she turns an… Read more »
Elizabeth Zetlin
Elizabeth Zetlin’s previous publications include The Thing with Feathers (BuschekBooks), Taking Root (Seraphim Editions), Said the River (Penumbra Press), Connections (Always Press), and Ghost of Glenelg (Always Press), many being collaborations with visual artists. Her chapbook The Gourd Poems received the 1999 Canadian Poetry Association’s Shaunt Basmajian Award. Her poetry has also received a Stephen… Read more »