Alice Burdick Toronto Book Launch w/ Jay MillAr & Ben Walker

Name: Alice Burdick Toronto Book Launch w/ Jay MillAr & Ben Walker
Start: 2024-11-26T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Imperial Pub

Schedule

Tue Nov 26 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Imperial Pub | Toronto, ON

A Feed Dog Book/Anvil Press launches Alice Burdick's latest poetry collection, Ox Lost, Snow Deep, with special guests poet Jay MillAr and singer-songwriter Ben Walker. Hosted by Feed Dog editor Stuart Ross.
“I’m just going to break this, okay?” writes Alice Burdick. The 13 long poems in Ox Lost, Snow Deep are the latest volleys in Burdick’s two-decade literary smackdown. These extended explorations will open your eyes—though you might experience fractal vision through glasses a couple of prescriptions old: “Not all stories / are told whole” and “Life irritates art.” Here you will find unpredictable improvisation with precision: a propulsive grocery list of hope, worry, laughter, and grief. Burdick’s first collection of new poems since 2018’s selected volume, Deportment, will alter your ways of thinking and challenge your ways of reading. Prepare to be let in on the joke and truth of life: “Idea for a writer’s retreat: / see who lets you into their house / once they know you’re a writer.”
“Ox Lost, Snow Deep is by turns cheeky, vivid, and pleasurably disorienting.… Anchored in sound, these poems urge us to ‘hold on to rhythm’ amidst the tumultuous landscape of the present tense.” —JAIME FORSYTHE, author of I Heard Something
“This book has everything I want from poetry: curiosity, invention, seriousness, silliness, and Burdick’s motivated engagement with her project… It’s funny, intellectual, quotidian, whimsical, grounded, philosophical, and moving: ‘This is a gift/ to share the inside.’” — NADA GORDON
ALICE BURDICK has been publishing poetry, essays, and cookbooks for over 30 years, and started out in the micropress, where she produced chapbooks and helped coordinate small press fairs in Toronto and Vancouver in the ’90s. Alice has taught poetry workshops to people of all ages. She is one half of the collaborative project Trail Reports, alongside musician and artistic director Erin Donovan, and her poetry has been featured in the Woodlight short film series, which has been screened across Canada. Alice grew up in Toronto and lives with her family in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.
JAY MILLAR is the author of several books of poetry, the most recent of which include I Could Have Pretended to Be Better than You: New and Selected Poems and Offline: Fifty Thoughts for Fifty Years. He is the co-publisher of Book*hug Press, an award winning publishing house working at the forefront of book culture in Canada. He is also the proprietor of Apollinaire’s Bookshoppe, an on-line bookstore specializing in small press, poetry, and ephemeral literature.
BEN WALKER grew up in the hamlet of Kersey Uplands in the county of Suffolk, UK. He did his first gig in a pub in nearby Hadleigh in 1985. After recording a number of cassettes, Walker moved from Suffolk to West Yorkshire in 1998. This period resulted in the recording and release of two albums, Bahaudin and K*ll or Cure. There were also recorded collaborations with Canadian writer Stuart Ross and others. Since moving to Toronto, Canada, Ben has released 6 more albums. He performs regularly solo and with bands.