pooka press friend & pooka press published poet w/
our pooka press poetry photobooth broadside series
Michael Thompson
has just released his book

Dancing Inside The Mouth Of Madness

"check it out & buy a copy, as his words are from his veins, & run as deep as the cells w/in. These poems will shake you, kick you from your own numbness, & repressed problems, they will force you to slam dance w/ your own reflection."

Warren Dean Fulton
Jan. 2008
pooka press

again, buy these poems
70 pages of high powered poetry

Dancing Inside The Mouth Of Madness

U.S. Sonnets

30 poem chapbook
by George Bowering
from pooka press

printed in a numbered limited edition of 100 copies



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check out these links for more about George Bowering:

George Bowering (Canada's First Parliamentary Poet Laureate)

George Bowering (Collections Canada / Literary Archives)

George Bowering (wikipedia)

George Bowering (University of Calgary)

George Bowering (University of Toronto)



cheers

Warren Dean Fulton

Just got an email from Director Robert McTavish, telling me of his documentary film on late Canadian Poet John Newlove, that it will be airing this Thursday on BRAVO TV.

check out this link.
John Newlove documentary on BRAVO

What to Make of It All?: The Life and Poetry of John Newlove

Thursday, April 19 @ 8et/5pt

This documentary examines the life and poetry of John Newlove, an acclaimed Canadian poet who struggled with depression and alcoholism. Poignant interviews with Newlove in his last years are featured, along with commentary from George Bowering, Patrick Lane, Joe Rosenblatt, John Metcalf, and many friends and poets who knew both the private man and the public persona.

I shot some additional footage for this production; a reading Newlove gave here in Vancouver, only a few years before he passed away, as well as, a tribute reading event, organized by poet Jamie Reid, in which I took part in February of 2004 at the Vancouver Public Library.

I first met Newlove, back when I too lived in Ottawa, in the mid 90's, at a benefit reading for the Ottawa Food Bank, held at the National Library of Canada. The reading organized by rob mclennan was one of the few public readings Newlove gave. I found Newlove to be a most sensitive, warm, loving, caring man, that suffered from a shyness greater than my own. A man whose words touch so many, who is a major talent, much admired by many, yet had deep self-loathing & a self-criticism I've never seen the equal to. I'll never forget him talking to me, telling me many personal private things about himself, his life, his struggles, his suffering, & his advice to me in regard to women, love, life, & booze. I'll never forget him.

John Newlove June 13, 1938 - December 23, 2003

McTavish tells me in the email that I have a prominent cameo in this film. I'll be going over to someone's house to watch this, as we don't own a television set.

Please check this documentary out, on one of the finest poets this country has ever produced.

so it goes

Warren Dean Fulton

In celebration of National Poetry Month
please feel free to post a poem here.

so yesterday, March 21st, was
WORLD POETRY DAY .
yes World Poetry Day
was yesterday March 21st
& yesterday was also
The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
& yesterday was also
the first official day of Spring
the vernal equinox
& yesterday was also
Higan-e
(which is a Buddhist ceremony, or observance of the equinox.)

So Check out this link
UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Poetry Day

What did you do for World Poetry Day?

pooka press on abe book search check out the pooka press items listed by these booksellers. You may buy direct from us for less (plus then we see the money & can put it back into the press to publish more)

some of the places pooka press items have sold at
Word On The Street
in Vancouver. As well as at CanZine West this past October. back in Kamloops once upon a time at Art In The Park put on by the Arts' Council. We've also sold pooka publications back in the 90's at the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, as well as the very first Ottawa small press book fair put together by rob mclennan & James Spyker.


Over, the years pooka press has sold in bookstores in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Kamloops, Kelowna, New Westminster, Burnaby, Vancouver, Victoria & in the US in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, & LA.

In addition to FREE poetry droppings across Canada from Ontario to B.C. & all down the Pacific coast to San Francisco.


Keep your eyes our for pooka press items. & If you know of places that would like to sell some of our publications. Let us know. Also let us know if you'd like to order some for yourself. From 1994- now, we have existed as an under the radar small press, but find with some of our authors, demand is out there, & folks have been telling us they would buy if they only knew what we had & how to get it. Let us know where we should sell. We've done a few sales via ebay, but find it hit & miss.

cheers & have a great weekend

Susan Musgrave was born March 12, 1951, in Santa Cruz, California, and raised in British Columbia, Canada.She has spent extended periods of time living in Ireland, England, the Queen Charlotte Islands, Panama and Colombia.In 1986 she married Stephen Reid, and has two beautiful daughters, Charlotte Musgrave (1982) and Sophie Musgrave Reid (1989).

Musgrave liveson Vancouver Island near Sidney, British Columbia where she works as a poet, novelist, columnist, reviewer, editor and non-fiction writer.

First off here is a great site on Susan Musgrave at Canadian Women Poets co-owned and maintained by Marilyn Rose and Erica Kelly. Another helpful, if somewhat out of date site on Susan Musgrave is created by the University of Toronto and another maintained by WIER Writers in Electronic Residence.

She and her husband, were the subjects of a CBC biography on Life And Times, The Poet and the Bandit: The Life and Times of Susan Musgrave and Stephen Reid.

POETRY

Something has To Give In A Life vancouver: pooka press, 2005

Canadian Roulette Vancouver: pooka press, 2004.

Stopping By the Mailbox on a Snowy Evening Vancouver: pooka press, 2004.

Nothing Vancouver: pooka press, 2004.

What The Small Day Cannot Hold: Collected Poems 1970-1985 Victoria: Porcepic Books, 2000.

Things That Keep and Do Not Change Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999.

Twenty-eight Uses for Al Purdy's Ashes Victoria, BC: Reference West, for the Hawthorne Society, 1999.

Forcing the Narcissus Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1994.

Cocktails at the Mausoleum Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1985. Beach Holme (revised edition), 1992.

The Spiritualization of Cruelty: Six Poems Toronto: Lake Galleries, 1992.

The Embalmer's Art: Poems New and Selected Toronto: Exile Editions, 1991.

In the Small Hours of the Rain Victoria: Reference West, 1991.

Kestrel and Leonardo Victoria, BC: Reference West, for the Hawthorne Society, 1990.

The Plane Put Down in Sacramento Vancouver, BC: W. Hoffer, 1982.

Tarts and Muggers: Poems New and Selected Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982.

Taboo-Man Vancouver, BC: C. Duthie, 1981.

When My Boots Drive Off in a Cadillac Toronto: League of Canadian Poets, 1980.

A Man to Marry, a Man to Bury Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1979.

For Charlie Beaulieu in Yellowknife Who Told Me To Go Back to the South and Write Another Poem About Indians Knotting, England: Sceptre Press, 1977.

Selected Strawberries and Other Poems Winlaw, BC: Sono Nis Press, 1977.

Two Poems for the Blue Moon Knotting, England: Sceptre Press, 1977.

Between Friends Toronto: Dreadnaught Press, 1976.

The Impstone Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1976.

Two Poems Knotting, England: Sceptre Press, 1975.

Against: Poem Rushden, England: Sceptre Press, 1974.

Grave-Dirt and Selected Strawberries New York: Macmillan, 1973.

Kung Rushden, England: Sceptre Press, 1973.

Entrance of the Celebrant New York: Macmillan, 1972.

Equinox Rushden, England: Sceptre Press, 1972.

Birthstone Rushden, England: Sceptre Press, 1971.

Mindscapes: Poems by Zieroth, Jiles, Musgrave, Wayman. Ed. Ann Wall Toronto: Anansi, 1971.

Skuld Frensham, England: Sceptre Press, 1971.

Songs of the Sea Witch Winlaw, BC: Sono Nis Press, 1970.

some of Artie Gold's difficult to find books on sale at abebooks.com
But please don't buy them all, as I've yet to purchase a number of the titles, & would very much like to have some more of his works.

thank you

from the collection
Even yr photograph looks afraid of me


Psycho


For years I've been sharing showers
with women too afraid to shower alone


- well, since about '1965' anyhow . . . )


- lucky for them, Hitchcock,
that I'm around/ I mean


- we might really've
had a problem on our hands, eh?