Good news!
Ottawa poet, publisher and former Blackmax Quartet drummer Cameron Anstee has graciously reviewed the Odourless fall 2011 catalogue for the Ottawa Poetry Newsletter.
Thanks Cameron! We certainly agree that “there is a whole lot to like here, and no excuse not to buy them all.”
Anyone interested in review copies should feel free to email us.
Ottawa residents should tune into 93.1 FM tomorrow evening at 6:30 for Literary Landscape, where Odourless authors Jeff Blackman and Ben Ladouceur will be reading from their upcoming Odourless Press chapbooks. We’ll also have a treat for the audiophiles out there: we’ll be playing tracks by Herb Alpert, Sufjan Stevens and others on vinyl!
Anyone outside Ottawa can listen online through the CKCU website or visit Odourless Press the next day when the show will be available for download as a podcast.
And if you’re listening in, why not donate a hearty, tax-deductible sum to CKCU for keeping it real and real free for over 35 years.
from: Back To My Old Self by Jeff Blackman (Odourless Press, 2011)
Mario in Koopaland circa Movember
Our hero crawls from a pipe one day until December, staggers into a march of mustachioed goombas and bros.
He clutches a green fireball in one hand, a suspender in the other
and wonders, “Where’d this blind chut deliver me? Is this carnival a warp, or did King Koopa reform?”
Even the sky trotters, even the cheep-cheeps swimming in prize displays are caterpillar lipped, shampooed & groomed to a glint
and combing the crowd, magikoopas panhandle with their wands, sing logos: “Find the poison! Be a hero!”
Mario lurches, chucks in his hat, lost in the fraternity, having pledged and been promised power-ups and life for every son of Koopa mowed
but the players’ guide never covered fly traps sprouting what you call, to be charitable, whiskers
and so slinks back to the pipe while the midway hum enunciates, “We’ve been growing.”
