Upcoming Tightrope Events for Fall 2008:

1) David Clink (Eating Fruit Out of Season) Reads at Strong Words, October 6

STRONG WORDS
Featuring Mike Spry, David Clink and Faye Guenther
Monday, 6 October 2008 @ The Gladstone Art Bar (1214 Queen St W)
7:30 PM - PWYC

2) You can catch Ian Burgham, Tightrope author of The Stone Skippers, at one of these Ontario events over the next few months:

October 14, Books and Company Picton, Ontario

October 16, TBA as to location Cobourg, Ontario

November 16, Poetry Cafe (Moonshine Cafe) Oakville, Ontario

The Stone Skippers by Ian Burgham is a beautifully published hard-back, generously spaced poems on high quality paper. And the work itself in every way continues this attention to detail, employing word and silence in equal measure. Here is a writer capable of great subtlety, fusing the turning point moment of short story, depth and length of novel, 'in-breath' of exalted verse. A small 'I' captures nature, philosophy, the quiet moment, the fleeting thought, then magnifies and shapes into word. Many poems possess the intimacy of listening in on someone talking to themselves. Use of form, poetic device, economy and choice of language, blurring of fancy and fiction – all are employed with intelligence and readerly insight.
-Kevin Gillam

3) Stacey May Fowles, author of the critically acclaimed novel Be Good, reads in the Proud Voices tent at this year's Toronto Word On The Street and at CANZINE:

WORD ON THE STREET:

Stacey May Fowles presents a reading from Be Good.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Proud Voices Tent, Queen's Park
5:00-5:30 p.m.

CANZINE:

You never knew CanLit could be so damn funny. The best of funny featuring new writers with hot Fall books and some of Canada's proven snarky meisters of poetry and prose. Watch them turn a boring reading into a cross between a fart machine and a whoopee cushion! Starring: Stacey May Fowles, Daniel Allen Cox, David McGimpsey, Sarah Steinberg, Jon Paul Fiorentino, and Elyse Friedman.

Sunday, October 26, 2008
The Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of Dufferin)
Toronto

4) Coming this fall: Pages' This Is Not A Reading Series Presents

PAOLA POLETTO & JAKE KENNEDY, eds. — BOREDOM FIGHTERS

SEAN STANLEY & KRISTI-LY GREEN — ETCETERA AND OTHERWISE

What is "graphic poetry"? Does it combine words and images in a manner unlike its more familiar cousin, the graphic novel? Tightrope authors Sandra Kasturi and David Clink will co-host "Graphic Language", a joint launch designed to shed light on such perennial aesthetic riddles. Paola Poletto and Jake Kennedy assembled a collection of graphic poetry, Boredom Fighters . Sean Stanley and Kristi-Ly Green collaborated on a graphic novel, Etcetera and Otherwise . After moderating a group discussion with these four creators, Kasturi and Clink will turn their microphones over to a "graphic poetry slam".

Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Ave, Toronto
Thurs, Oct 2; 7:30pm (doors 7:00pm) free

5) Other news:

Tightrope Books publisher Halli Villegas has acquired poet Tara-Michelle Ziniuk's second collection, Somewhere to Run From, described as "dangerously sarcastic, Toronto-local, bitter, sweet, and bruising in its honesty" in the release. Tightrope plans to publish in spring 2009.

Stay tuned for more information regarding the highly anticipated launch of The Best Canadian Poetry 2008.

For more information about this event or to request review copies, contact Halli Villegas at Tightrope Books, halli@tightropebooks.com.
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