Elizabeth Bachinsky: June 2011

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Daylight Shines on the Whitehorse Poetry Festival

I'm just back from the Whitehorse poetry festival where twenty-four hour sunlight illuminated us all. Many thanks to the organizers and volunteers who made our trip so spectacular. And to the poets with whom I shared the stage, you are brilliant. Read more about the Whitehorse Poetry festival here on the Talonbooks website. xo e

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Liz at the Saskatchewan Festival of Words, July 14-17

The Saskatchewan Festival of Words is happening July 14-17 in Moosejaw where I lived for for the first year of my life. I'll be there again this July. Please check out the festival lineup here and I hope to see you there.

Lovely UFV

I had such a lovely time as the University of the Fraser Valley's fourth Writer in Residence. Tomorrow, I meet with John Carroll, UFV's Creative Writing Department Head, for lunch and to say goodbye. If you are curious to know what kind of lovely is happening at UFV, click here to read more.

Liz at the Whitehorse Poetry Festival, June 24-26

I can't wait to read at the Whitehorse Poetry Festival. Here's the line-up: Elizabeth Bachinsky, bill bissett, John Pass, Miranda Pearson, Clea Roberts, David Seymour, Karen Solie and Rhea Tregebov, with Host Eleanor Wachtel.

Find out more about the poets and the festival.

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What They say

“Bachinsky's work, with its myriad of influences ranging from Eliot...to Lisa Robertson, is able to rise above the boring drone of the avant-garde-versus-traditional debates. Her work can straddle both sides: formal and experimental, personal and mathematical, with a keen ear for the erotically ridiculous.”

~ Zoe Whittall, Globe and Mail

“Bachinsky has won deserved admiration for her work, full of guts and verve, spunk and nerve.…straight-shooting, straight-talking…Bachinsky’s third poetry collection [has] that same rough beauty, sinuous toughness, of make-do carpentry that works.”

~ George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Chronicle/Herald

“God of Missed Connections is a formidable work from this young poet: a considered and important contribution to the quintessential dialogue on Canada’s fractured collective history.”

~ Deanne Beattie, Vancouver Review

“…enviably good.”

~ Mark Callanan, Quill & Quire

“…one of those rare poets capable of negotiating poetic forms with rigour and testing their limits, while never losing sight of the strange, dark music of what it means to be human.”

~ Jeanette Lynes, The Globe and Mail

“a poet…with an ear to the ground of 21st century culture. [Her work] grips you with yearning from the first verse to the last…"

~ Belinda Bruce, Vancouver Review

“[Bachinsky] doesn’t let any sign pass without spinning out possible signifiers. And she sees the signs everywhere."

~ Jacqueline Turner, The Georgia Straight

“A wonderful, wonderful poet.”

~ Keith Maillard, author of Gloria & Two Strand River

“One of the significant, exciting new poets to follow…one whose fine sense of form is equaled by a dedication to using the full spectrum of tone, style, and content.”

~ Todd Swift, Eyewear

“A major influence…”

~ John K. Samson, The Weakerthans

“A…poet concerned with tradition, but possessing an experimental impulse that gives her work a countercultural thrust.”

~ Stuart Cole, Quill and Quire

“An accomplished poet who thinks and feels in the forms she employs.”-

~ Malcolm Woodland, University of Toronto Quarterly.

“She says what she wants to say confidently and skillfully. I respect this kind of honesty…”

~ Alex Boyd, The Good Reports

“Bachinsky’s willingness to range fearlessly through history sets her writing apart...[she] should be lauded for raising big questions. We should also applaud her sheer moxie.”

~ Jeanette Lynes, The Fieldstone Review, University of Saskatchewan

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