Abstract Launched in 2005 and rebooted in 2022, the Fred Wah Digital Archive is a digital web project that intends to act as a living archive of the work of Fred Wah, including a new interview with the author. As a consequence of the poet’s interest in the sonic and phonetic aspects of language, the […]
Article, SPOKENWEBLOG | accessibility, audio, captioning, Fred Wah, fred wah digital archive, performance, poetry, transcription
The Accent reading series will host the launch of SpokenWeb Concordia team member Salena Wiener’s new chapbook bodies like gardens.
Launch | Chapbook, launch, Montreal, poetry, Salena Wiener
In an exciting world premiere, the eight finalists for the inaugural Quebec Writers’ Federation Spoken Word Prize will offer short performances showcasing their talents. The prize is open to all forms of spoken word performance, from storytelling to sound poetry, hip hop, and dub. Presented by the Quebec Writers’ Federation and Concordia’s SpokenWeb project, the event will be hosted by poet and SpokenWeb director Jason Camlot.
Performances | 4th Space, Caitlin Murphy, Concordia University, Debbie Braide, Erin Moure, Jason Camlot, Joanne Pelletier, Liana Cusmano, Lucia De Luca, performance, poetry, Prize, Quebec Writers Fund, QWF, Raissa Simone, Roen Higgins, spoken word, SpokenWeb
During the residency at Studio303, du Plessis will collaborate with poets and interdisciplinary artists Kama La Mackerel and Alexei Perry Cox to produce a performance that will observe themes of place, identity formation, and grief surrounding binaries and borders.
Performances | Alexei Perry Cox, Deep Curation, Kama La Mackerel, Klara du Plessis, Montreal, performance, poetry
During the residency at Studio303, du Plessis will collaborate with poets and interdisciplinary artists Kama La Mackerel and Alexei Perry Cox to produce a performance that will observe themes of place, identity formation, and grief surrounding binaries and borders.
Performances | Alexei Perry Cox, Deep Curation, Kama La Mackerel, Klara du Plessis, Montreal, performance, poetry
The Atwater Poetry Project, in partnership with the Blue Metropolis Festival and SpokenWeb, are pleased to welcome dub poetry legend CLIFTON JOSEPH for a special spoken word presentation, our first live event since March 2020.
A founder of the Canadian tradition of dub poetry, a political performance poetry genre of Caribbean roots, and 1/3 of the influential group DE DUB POETS with Lillian Allen and Devon Haughton, Joseph will perform work from throughout his forty-year career before joining APP curator Faith Paré in conversation.
Performances | Atwater Poetry Project, Blue Metropolis, CLIFTON JOSEPH, dub poetry, Faith Paré, Montreal, performance, poetry, SpokenWeb
Introduction This article emerged from the “feminist close listening” methodology we devised together during a collaborative listening session in Montreal, December, 2017. We began the practice of listening to recordings together, in real time, as a way of attuning ourselves to the related inquiries that our archives of interest shared. For Karis, this archive is […]
Article, Collaborations, SPOKENWEBLOG | affective labour, archives, artifacts, audio, close listening, community, Deanna Fong, feminist close listening, gender, Karis Shearer, literary communities, maria hindmarch, no more potlucks, poetry, Simon Fraser University, TISH, UBC, Vancouver, Warren Tallman
How to introduce an introduction. How to warm the stage for the dates, facts, and anecdotes that are already presented in Stephen Morrissey’s reminiscences about Véhicule Art Inc. as an experimental forum for the performance of new poetry, in the 1970s, in Montreal. The Véhicule Poets—again, see post below for the who’s who—have maintained a […]
Article, SPOKENWEBLOG | canadian literature, Montreal, oral literary history, poetry, Poetry Reading, SGWU, Sir George Williams Poetry Reading Series, SPOKENWEBLOG, Stephen Morrissey, Véhicule Art, Véhicule Poets, Véhicule Press
SpokenWeb, a research program that preserves literary sound recordings, will run a booth on site where festival attendees will be invited to recite lines from a poem they know by heart into a microphone for preservation on a reel to reel tape.
Collaborations, Performances | Blue Metropolis, Concordia University, Memory, Montreal, poetry, Recitation, Recording, SpokenWeb
Virginia Woolf and Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2021) is Emily Kopley’s first book. It argues that Woolf’s career was shaped by her impression of the conflict between poetry and the novel, a conflict she often figured as one between masculine and feminine, old and new, bound and free.
Launch | book launch, Concordia University, Emily Kopley, Montreal, poetry, Virginia Woolf