Northumberland Festival of the Arts opened with a fun-filled evening of music Friday at Victoria Hall. Cobourg’s Poet Laureate Jessica Outram MC’d the event. NFOTA president Gwynn Scheltema welcomed everyone to the festival. And Parliamentary Poet Laureate Louise Halfe – Sky Dancer shared her thoughts about our human need for the arts, and how everyone…
Category: Poets
What’s on at the Festival: Literary Workshops
Have you always wanted to write a novel or memoir? Do you have a book you want to self-publish? Or would you just like to take a little time to explore and develop your inner poet/writer? Wherever your interests lie, there’s a workshop for you at the Northumberland Festival of the Arts, September 16 –…
Review of Stuart Ross’s The Book of Grief and Hamburgers (by Kate Rogers)
Review: The Book of Grief and Hamburgers by Stuart Ross ISBN: 978-1-77041-656-7 ECW Press, Toronto, 2022 Reviewed by Kate Rogers Angst, denial and self-mocking humour struggle with each other in Stuart Ross’s poem-diary-essay about learning to live with grief. The poem-entries take us through the speaker’s inner process as he grapples with loss. It is…
Volunteers Needed for Poetry on Parade by Wally Keeler
On Saturday, September 17, 2-4pm, Northumberland Festival of the Arts is presenting a poetry reading, Words on a Wire. The event, held inside the grand Concert Hall of Victoria Hall, will be filled with Poets Laureate and the eloquence of Northumberland. Outside Victoria Hall will stand the Picnic Table Anthology, covered in poems from over…
Words on a Wire by Wally Keeler
Poetician1 (Wally Keeler) of the glorious imagine nation of the Peoples Republic of Poetry (PRP) and an agent poetvocateur collaborator from the Cobourg Poetry Workshop drove over to Poet Hope, without authorization, on a Sunday afternoon to propose some text be raised to the heavens, don’t ya know. It was a meme mission. Poetician1 settled…
What’s on at the Festival: Words on a Wire and Parade of Poetriots
Discover two more events for you, your friends and family to enjoy at the Northumberland Festival of the Arts, September 16 – October 2, 2022, taking place in Northumberland County’s picturesque towns and beautiful countryside. “It’s only poetry that does it for me. Words have a knack for being elastic. They also love to tell…
Summertime Poets by Wally Keeler
Film Access Northumberland recently hosted the 2nd annual Eye2Eye International Film Festival in the grand Concert Hall in Victoria Hall in downtown Cobourg. A full roster of all genres of film was presented, all under the theme umbrella of “What Unites Us.” Summertime, directed by Carlos Lopez Estrada, is a film that is hectic frantic…
2019 Festival Highlights: Allan Briesmaster
As we confirm the program for NFOTA’s upcoming festival, to be announced soon, we look back on previous festivals. Here is poet Allan Briesmaster reading at Words on a Wire 2019. About Allan: Poet Allan Briesmaster is a frequent visitor to Cobourg, where he has read at various poetry events over the years. He has…