Winter 2020 #ReadAtlantic Giveaway!
We at TMR think it is time for an early winter giveaway of four great titles from #ReadAtlantic publishers.
We at TMR think it is time for an early winter giveaway of four great titles from #ReadAtlantic publishers.
(Some content borrowed from an LLP news release).MONTREAL – Linda Leith Publishing is thrilled to announce the signing of an option agreement with Jeremy Podeswa/Rebelfilms for the motion picture adaptation rights to Wiebke von Carolsfeld’s critically acclaimed first novel, Claremont. “A very convincing and a very gratifying read. A laudable first book.” James M. Fisher, …
Since the most recent “The Very Best!” Book Awards were announced in September 2020, the TMR team of Contributors have been reading and reviewing full-tilt for the 2020/2021 reading year. November is an ideal time to take stock of what has been accomplished thus far before the busy year-end activities start to take time from …
In the Fall 2020 edition of Atlantic Books Today there was an editorial by Alex Liot, the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) of Atlantic Publishers Marketing Association in which he stated, in part: “We know that the desire to read a local book is now higher than ever. That knowledge presents a unique opportunity to figure …
I have found the various writing communities in Canada to be very supportive of each other, and JewishFiction.net certainly fills an important niche in this country. Jewish Fiction .net is the online literary journal that was founded by Dr. Nora Gold, who continues to act as editor-in-chief to this day. Dr. Gold is also a published …
The Smallest Objective is a story about the decline of a parent, and of the author’s reflection on this passage in life; as the narrator struggles with her mother’s failing memory, unexpected secrets come into focus and a layered legacy of willed forgetfulness is uncovered. World Alzheimer’s Day is on September 21. Along with Alzheimer’s, …
[dropcap]April [/dropcap]2020 is National Poetry Month and The Miramichi Reader has been putting out poetry and poetry news & reviews like never before, thanks to Bill Arnott, our West Coast Editor and Chris Banks, our Poetry editor. Now, we would like to give away some new collections of poetry. There is a bundle of three …
[The following article appeared in The Picton Gazette on July 15, 2019. I am reproducing the full article as a favour to the author. While I haven’t read the book myself, it does come with some great recommendations, which are posted after the article ends. ~James] Loyalist connection leads American author to Prince Edward County …
Author Dian Day is, while supplies last, giving away copies of her latest book, The Madrigal for free. Ms. Day is an excellent author of Canadian literary fiction. Her two books, The Clock of Heaven and most recently, The Madrigal, are two of my personal favourites. [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”#06385B” class=”” size=””]”Both of …
The following message was released today to The Miramichi Reader Newsletter subscribers as a “Special Edition”. If you haven’t yet subscribed, I encourage you to do so.
April is National Poetry Month. This year’s theme, A World of Poetry. A world of poetry. This, I understand. Being witness to stomped-verse haka in Waitangi, the lyrical thrum of Outback didgeridoo, breathy sax in a wet London underpass, red slashed characters on a mud wall in Hebei, tanka blurred through joss smoke in Kyoto, rantings of a street poet in Times Square, the guttural slur of a Greenlandic hymn, and a master’s spoken-word reverberating on old timber, sibilant sea hissing through cracked glass
We wish to introduce Chris Banks as The Miramichi Reader’s new Poetry Editor, and his new column, The Abrupt Edge. It will be a regular feature here at TMR and will feature poetry, poetry news and whatever else Chris wants to tell you about.
I was making my way across town. Town being Vancouver, BC. We have to say that as there’s another one, a perfectly pleasant American one, its pleasantness being its proximity to Vancouver, BC. I was to be the guest on World Poetry Café, an unassuming FM radio program with a shockingly large listenership – one-hundred-thirty-three countries, at last count.
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Join Bill Arnott as we explore western Canada’s creative lit scene from the ground up, bedrock-solid yet perpetually in motion. Like our imminent coastal quake, my epicentre is BC’s southwest. For now.