Adèle Barclay
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Geist 131
Also in GEIST 131 “An Affinity for Rhinestones” by JASMINE RUFF “What Is a Zine?” by ANDY BROWN “Pop-Punk Bops” by MATT BOBKIN and ADAM FEIBEL Birding with LOGHAN PAYLOR Cover art by ALENA WEBBER More artists in this issue: NORA KELLY, ALLAN BEALY, EVA DOMINELLI, SURYA GOVENDER, RAWAN HASSAN, and JIA 何家嘉 …and the world’s most difficult crossword puzzle! TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURES Winners of the 20th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest A Girl Needs a Mech Suit by Erika...
Geist 131
Also in GEIST 131 “An Affinity for Rhinestones” by JASMINE RUFF “What Is a Zine?” by ANDY BROWN “Pop-Punk Bops” by MATT BOBKIN and ADAM FEIBEL Birding with LOGHAN PAYLOR Cover art by ALENA WEBBER More artists in this issue: NORA KELLY, ALLAN BEALY, EVA DOMINELLI, SURYA GOVENDER, RAWAN HASSAN, and JIA 何家嘉 …and the world’s most difficult crossword puzzle! TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURES Winners of the 20th Annual Literal Literary Postcard Story Contest A Girl Needs a Mech Suit by Erika...
Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2024: The Winners
We are thrilled to bring you the results of this year’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest, judged by Angela Sterritt. The wait is over: here are this year’s winners! —- FIRST PLACE: Handful of Her Ashes for the Potter, by Judith Stiles Judith Stiles earns her living as a potter, turning mud into money in the guise of colorful utilitarian pots that last ten thousand years.
Creative Non-Fiction Contest 2023: The Longlist
We are so thrilled to bring you this year’s Creative Non-Fiction Contest longlist! Congratulations to these writers, and a heartfelt thank you to all those who submitted their work to this year’s contest.
A Spell for Holding
I want to build you bookshelves my partner confides after a few months of dating. We’re entwined in my turquoise sheets in the bright grey light of a spring morning that my one translucent curtain fails to block out, nibbling on olives and cheese in between bouts of honeymoon-stage morning sex. The door is closed to shut out my roommates and the outer world, to give us this small cocoon as we begin to build our rapport.
Contemporary Writers Redefining Poetry in Canada
Current Issue — Versed. Writer Adèle Barclay Vancouver-based poet Adèle Barclay selected and provided the commentary for this list of contemporary Canadian poets. A wide range of voices and styles is represented to give readers a sense of the depth of skill and experience that constitutes the scene today.
A Fantastic Communion: Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay
A Fantastic Communion: Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay One of the most subversive pleasures of the fantasy genre is that it lends readers room to imagine alternative storylines between its constructed worlds. For every canonical narrative, there are endless adaptations, boundless realms of fan fiction, and many profit-ordained sequels or spin-offs.
Adèle Barclay | The Bite | The Town Crier
Adèle Barclay ruminates on duty, obligation, diplomacy and joy in reviewing as part of our guest edited month, “Roles and Functions of Criticism: Comments on our Review Culture.” Author/ Reviewer Adèle Barclay. Photo credit: Erin Flegg The best review I never published was when I bit a book out of frustration. I took the corner of a poetry collection I had been tasked with reviewing for an academic journal and put it in my mouth.
A New Wave of Comedy Grows in Vancouver
Culture | Media The jokes land from fresh angles, punching up instead of down. Adele Barclay 28 Oct 2019 | TheTyee.ca Adèle Barclay is the author of If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You, winner of the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the new Renaissance Normcore. There’s a new wave of stand-up comedy in Vancouver that is indie, fierce and teeters on that fine line between laughing and crying. It’s also decidedly not white, straight and dude-centreed.
‘Both, Either, All Of The Above’
While I’ve dipped my toes in raunchy burlesque, I’ve never done drag. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners On One Day All Over BC, People Are Meeting Up! Tyee is jazzed to host readers as part of the big On the Table experiment Sept. 26. Three Vancouver Events to Get You Thinking about Democracy Join Libby Davies, Apathy Is Boring, and Andrea Reimer in these upcoming workshops. Make sure you RSVP! Wait, that’s a lie.
Poetry Is Living Its Best Life Online
Culture | Media On Instagram, the form pares down words and ups the impact, riding a surge of new interest. By Adele Barclay 20 May 2019 | TheTyee.ca Adèle Barclay is the author of If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You, winner of the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Renaissance Normcore (forthcoming this fall). Poetry isn’t dead — it’s just living its best life on social media.
We All Want Marshmallows
Katie, forest fires melt the air half an hour from where you live the sky is a black sheep bleating and I can’t even see the wolf in the photo you texted me but I feel his snarl in your voice over speaker phone heat is an apex predator in a desert valley I keep promising to visit and pick up flats of peaches to can but Greyhound cancelled its bus service in Western Canada you biked to the north end of Galiano Island and a month later I followed there were two coves to swim in and an island to...
Robyn Sarah’s exquisitely untrendy poetry · The Walrus
My favourite poem by Robyn Sarah is a single sentence running in short, jagged lines halfway down the page. Called “Echoes in November,” it starts by reminding the reader that “correspondences are everywhere” and that things can “borrow / essence not their own,” before vividly depicting a kitchen scene in which leaves streaking past a window are juxtaposed against a figure chopping vegetables.
Eight Questions for This Year’s Winner of the Man Booker Prize · The Walrus
It was on a long-ago visit to Washington, DC, that George Saunders first heard the story of Abraham Lincoln and his eleven-year-old son Willie, who died in 1862, and how the bereft president of the United States visited the boy’s temporary tomb to embrace his lifeless body. That image stayed with Saunders for fifteen years, but he couldn’t put it to paper.
Walrus Poetry Prize Judge Jordan Abel Shares What He’s Looking For This Year · The Walrus
Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a writer whose work pushes at what is possible in poetry. Drawing from a multitude of genres, such as ethnography, photography, historic fiction, pulp novels, Abel assembles critical poetic collages that confront the enduring legacies of colonialism. In his first book of poetry The Place of Scraps, Abel carved away at the ethnographic writings of Marius Barbeau and established his own voice—a resistant, transformative lyric skillfully forged out of settler colonial texts.
Winning Books: Spring 2017
Every year, as spring arrives across the country, Canadian writers and readers celebrate the best of CanLit with prizes and awards from different regions and genres, but there's nothing specialized about any of it. These books are for everyone, and we at 49th Shelf relish every second these great books get to spend in the spotlight. So much so that we want to let it shine a little longer with a look at the titles that have been big winners lately.
January/February 2017
The evening’s last light has drained out of the sky behind the procession of dead hotels lining the beach. Up to twenty storeys high, they were built so close together …
The Walrus Poetry Prize
Finalist for the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize No one Has lots of them Lays or friends or anything That can make a little light in all that darkness —Jack Spicer …
I Open the Dryer and a Robin Sails Out
You are driving a bus across Alberta, deciding between seasons, plucking aphids and roses. Over mountains I feel the peak of a horizon before it breaks in half and spits up floes of mayflies. You keep vultures at bay with cigarette butts, throw darts for chops in every rusted legion. Never step in the same puddle of warm beer twice we learned the sticky way. Gasoline rainbows the road, a clock made of stone, a chair swivels in two official languages.
Holy, low-fi band highlight
More than just a cheeky name and the scapegoat for a trigger-happy, art-funds-slashing conservative government, Canadian low-fi electro-rockers Holy Fuck have earned their notoriety simply by their way of making music. Sans staple electronica tools, such as laptops and loops, the band creates music layered with beats and riffs that fly fresh off the stage.
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