some author activity: Christie, Jones, Abel, Kroetsch + beaulieu,

Jason Christie has some new poems up at Our Teeth; Philip Lanthier's personal recollection of D.G. Jones is now online at The Walrus; Stan Mir writes on Jordan Abel over at Jacket2; Jean McKay wrote on Robert Kroetsch as part of the Celebration of Canadian Poetry over at Brick Books; and derek beaulieu discusses "The horror of being a novelist."

D.G. Jones (January 1, 1929 - March 6, 2016)

The poet, editor and translator D.G. Jones has died.

above/ground press produced his chapbook, standard pose (2002), which was reprinted in its entirety in Ground rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press 2003-2013 (Chaudiere Books, 2013). Since then, he'd a new poem in the “Tuesday poem” series, and further new poems in two different issues of the small poetry journal Touch the Donkey: two poems in #3 (October 2014) and a single poem in #6 (July 2015). He declined to be interviewed.

See my longer obituary/write-up here.

some author activity: Martin, Lea, Barwin, Schmaltz, Reed + Jones,

Part seven of Camille Martin's Robert Zend essay focuses on the late Toronto poet bpNichol; profile on N.W. Lea now online at Open Book: Ontario; Gary Barwin wrote on Eric Schmaltz's typewriter poems for Paul Dutton, his recent chapbook, last summer (I'm just finding out about this now, myself) for Jacket2; Marthe Reed responds to Jennifer K. Dick's "what is YOUR fragment"; and D.G. Jones has a new poem posted as part of the Tuesday poem series.