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…
Tag: Words on a Wire
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…
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…
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…
2019 Festival Highlights: Antony Di Nardo
As we confirm the program for NFOTA’s upcoming festival, to be announced very soon, we look back on previous festivals. Here is Antony Di Nardo’s poetry reading from Words on a Wire 2019. About Antony Antony Di Nardo is the author of five books of poetry, with a sixth, Forget-Sadness-Grass, to be released this April…
Why Poetry? by Kate Rogers
A lot of writers and artists make Northumberland County home! One important reason my husband and I chose to settle here after two decades abroad is the many poets and visual artists who practice their craft here. What is poetry? According to Margaret Atwood, “Poetry is condensed emotion.” Poets often focus on epiphanies—flashes of understanding…