Frontenac House presents

this is the cover for A Bad Year for Journalists, my new book of poetry coming out this spring - Neil Petrunia took the photo of the Chinese resto & photoshopped it to be this great eerie green colour.

kudos to my excellent editor Rose Scollard & her design team at Frontenac House. if you're in Calgary or Toronto in late April, mark your calendar for two blow-out launch parties, where i'll be reading with three really excellent Frontenac House writers - Ali Riley, Nancy Jo Cullen (who has written a book about Calgary's famous madame, Pearl) and Ven Begamudré. there will be wine, doorprizes, & (logically enough) lots books!

the two dates to remember are: April 20th, for the Calgary launch of Quartet 2006, at Memorial Park Library, 1221-12 Ave, SW, Calgary, starting at 19h, and April 24th for the Toronto launch at the Edward Day Gallery, 19h also. now if i can just get my Canadian passport renewed in time for my flight...

decorative ducky

have been trying to ignore the news lately--what with the New Conservatives in Canada, the caricature debacle, more repression for journalists in Jordan and Egypt, & now an anti-Semitic murder in Paris, i feel just about ready to retreat to the Burgundian countryside and raise decorative ducks. oh, but what with the bird flu warning, i can't do that, either...