Fish quills, feathers and Sushi

Yesterday (June 15, 2013), local poetry fans shared a wonderful afternoon at Beaver House, the home of the Elora Poetry Centre, with the Fish Quill Poetry Boat crew (Linda Besner, Leigh Kotsilidis, Andy McGuire, Gillian Savigny, and David Seymour) and First Nations singers and drummers the Mino Ode Kwewak N’gamowak (The Good-Hearted Women Singers).
     And thanks go out to hosts Carol and Daniel Bratton for allowing us all to explore their magical property on the Grand River.

For more about Daniel Bratton go here...

"Linda Besner’s poems are seriously playful. The title of her book, with its pair of rhyming words, suggests that rhymes can echo at point-blank range. Children love playing with such sounds. Northrop Frye – a critic we don’t think of as playful – said that lyric poetry was built on two principles from early childhood experiments with language: 'babble' and 'doodle,' or sound play and structural play."
— Bert Almon, mRb
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You can find out more about when and where you can see and hear Linda Besner and all of the other Fish Quill poets here…

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