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News from the Feminist Caucus, by Anne Burke News from the Feminist Caucus, by Anne Burke This month, more news from Bernice Lever and Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes; previews from Inanna Press and Wilfred Laurier Press; and a review of Journey With No Maps, A Life of P.K. Page (McGill-Queen’s Press) by Sandra Djwa. Don’t forget to send your review, news, and/or link! “Women are in language prison who can’t read safety regulations on the job, can’t read warnings on cleaning fluids or on wharfs, can’t read to get car licences or job contracts.” Bernice Lever edited and contributed to language(s) prison(s) 1998, with other papers by Nela Rio, Sheila Hyland, and Mary Dalton, in the Living Archives Series. She also compiled Singing, An Anthology of Women’s Writing from Canadian Prisons (Highway Book Shop, 1979). From: Bernice Lever To: A. Burke Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 1:26:20 PM Subject: Query on reviews and interviews? Dear Anne: Sorry to be so slow in contacting you. Do you have a full slate of speakers on Male Mentors or topic for Toronto AGM in June? I am in Ottawa for Friday and Saturday --- for PLR and flying by banquet time to Toronto. Sat.8th. But I could send a prepared piece as some did last year who could not be present for the panel. 1.) Jennifer Footman interviewed me last year. She has the printed version and an audio one. Do you use audio ones on Feminist Caucus site? 2.) Also I wrote a book review of the Poet to Poet anthology by Guernica Editions which has some F.C. members in it. It is a book of poems to or in voice of a mentor---1 page and 2nd page is the Back Story--of prose understanding of the effect of the mentor... Somewhat interesting concept! 70+ poets... Allan Briesmaster-- etc. Bunny Iskov asked me to write it, and send it to Elana Wolff== Confusing literary life == in my old age. 77 next month. --------- Tomorrow my friend, Anthony Dalton, Van. CAA member is coming as he asked me to write or use past poems of mine in a photo book he is creating of his top 50 story-telling pictures from around the world. He is long-time Explorers club, Adventurers, etc., leading groups everywhere over the decades--now a cruise ship speaker under Smithsonian Institute --DC. listing. He writes prose--- I helped edit his novel ---but usually writes non- fiction historical books-- sailing ships, ship wrecks, Can. history etc.-- but he is a fan of my poetry -- and reads Tagore from Calcutta. Anthony still writes articles for Pakistani Airlines. Maybe I have too many connections and people wanting my time /// Hope this makes sense to you. all the best to you & yours, Bernice Poet To Poet: Poems written to poets and the stories that inspired them Julie Roorda (Editor), Elana Wolff (Editor) St@nz@ E-Newsletter March 2013 Julie Roorda is the author of three volumes of poetry Eleventh Toe (2001), Courage Underground (2006) and Floating Bodies (2010), and a collection of short stories Naked in the Sanctuary (2004) all published by Guernica Editions. Her novel for young adults Wings of a Bee was published by Sumach Press in 2007. Elana Wolff is the author of four collections of poetry with Guernica: Birdheart (2001), Mask (2003), You Speak to Me in Trees (2006), winner of the 2008 F.G. Bressani Prize for Poetry, and Startled Night. Elana is also co-author with the late poet, Malca Litovitz, of Slow Dancing: Creativity and Illness, Duologue and Rengas (2008). A collection of short essays on contemporary poems, titled Implicate Me, was released with Guernica in 2010. Elana has taught English as a Second Language at York University in Toronto and at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She currently divides her time between writing, editing, and facilitating therapeutic community art. Guernica Editions, 2012 Trade Paperback ISBN-13: 9781550716450 / ISBN-10: 155071645X $ 20.00 (Canada) $ 20.00 (United States) Prices may vary Poets find inspiration in all manner of human experience, from the comical to the sombre. The creative processes by which they grow their poems to fruition are as diverse, and often as quirky, as their subjects. But what all poets have in common is their captivation by the work and lives of other poets, living and dead. Poet to Poet is a unique anthology that honours, and probes, this peculiar enchantment. Featuring work by Canadian poets written to, about, or in the manner of other poets, each poem is accompanied by a back story that provides a glimpse into the creative cauldron and the poetic communion of kindred spirits. {Guernica Editions} Browse other titles in Guernica Editions' Essential Anthologies Series First Poets Series: First full poetry collections by writers 35 and younger. Essential Poets Series: Canadian and international voices in poetry. Sent: Friday, February 15, 2013 3:32:25 PM Subject: Advance Notice: Launch date for Dark Water Songs - April 18, 2013 Dear Anne, Hope 2013 is starting off really well for you. This is a belated note to thank you for featuring my Canadian Woman Studies article, "Beyond Questionable Certainties," in the LCP October “Feminist Caucus News”. It was great to see my work and the work of other League members acknowledged and to have both the CWS and Inanna Publications foregrounded. I know that CWS/Inanna would be very interested in being able to site the “Feminist Caucus News” feature of my article (as well as the rest of the CWS issue you featured) St@nz@ E-Newsletter March 2013 on their facebook page, etc... I'd appreciate knowing if that would be OK with you and also, what the appropriate link would be. I wasn't sure if the “Feminist Caucus News” was meant to be available only to members of the League. As it turns out, Inanna will be publishing my third collection, Dark Water Songs - the launch is scheduled for April 18th, 6:30pm, at the Women's Art Association of Canada, 23 Prince Arthur, Toronto. http://www.womensartofcanada.ca I'd very much like to have it reviewed and would appreciate any thoughts/advice you might be able to share in that regard. Would also appreciate your thoughts re: any reading venues/opportunities and/or contacts that you would recommend both in your area and beyond. I'm exploring the possibility of setting up some readings across the country in 2013-14. Look forward to any thoughts/suggestions you might have re: the above. With much appreciation and all good wishes, Mary Lou Note: The “Feminist Caucus News” is circulated monthly to League members and archived annually on the League of Canadian Poets website at: http://poets.ca/wordpress/programs-2/feminist-caucus Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes, Books in Print: Dark Water Songs (Inanna Publications, forthcoming 2013) Travelling Light (Seraphim Editions, 2006) ISBN: 0-9734588-8- 7, Canada $16.95/U.S. $14.95 the fires of naming, Seraphim Editions, Toronto, 2001 (ISBN 0-9699639-8-X), Canada $14.95/ U.S. $10.95 The Writer Within: Dialogue and Discovery (with Trina M. Wood, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Toronto, 1989) ISBN 0-7747-1320-X http://poets.ca/members_data/Mary%20Lou%20Soutar Hynes The poems in Dark Water Songs begin on the margins of islands and ancestors, and fan out, probing love, loss and life’s dilemmas. They expand and deepen the poetic exploration which began with my earlier collections, mining the reciprocal spaces enabled by the hyphen between Jamaican and Canadian, exploring silences, the weight of memory, and a sense of the sacred. The collection contributes to the body of work by contemporary Canadian writers of Caribbean origin. The perspective is that of a poet/educator and former nun ― a writer who St@nz@ E-Newsletter March 2013 negotiates the world through the lens of islands and continents, landscapes and seas. Page P.K. P.K. Page, a Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets, was born in England on November 23, 1916, and came to Canada in 1919. Educated in England, Calgary, and Winnipeg, and studied art in Brazil and New York. Under the name P.K. Irwin her paintings and drawings have been exhibited widely. As scriptwriter for the National Film Board, her script for the animated film, “Teeth Are To Keep”, won an award at Cannes. Page passed away at the age of 92 on January 14, 2010 in Victoria, B.C. Organizing a PK Page Trust Fund Reading – Notes for Reading Organizers http://poets.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Organizing-a-PK-Page-Trust- Fund-Reading.pdf Review of Journey With No Maps, A Life of P.K. Page, by Sandra Djwa (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012) 418 pp. cloth $39.95 Endnotes Bibliography Indexed. The title is from “Traveller, Conjuror, Journeyman,” (1970) in which P.K. Page wrote, “I am traveller. I have a destination but no maps.” At the tender age of sixteen, I first read the poem “Stenographers” when I was perusing an anthology of contemporary poetry. The use of her initials disguised her gender. This was at a juncture when I resisted learning how to type, since it symbolized women’s plight. For example, there would come a time when my sister-in-law transcribed her husband’s dissertation, never St@nz@ E-Newsletter March 2013 imagining composing one of her own, although she had graduated summa cum laude in History from Marianapolis, a women’s Catholic College in Montreal. Sandra Djwa was the second graduate of UBC and the first woman to deliver the Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture at UBC, in 1999, in honour of the Department’s 80th anniversary.
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