Tightrope Books
The writer walks a tightrope balanced on art, suspending disbelief, working without any net except the one woven with words.
Tightrope Books Presents the Launch of its Much-Anticipated Spring Catalogue!
Thursday, July 10th, 7:00 p.m.
The Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst St. Free.
With New Releases from Dayle Furlong (Open Slowly, Poems), David Clink (Eating Fruit Out of Season, Poems), and Ursula Pflug (After the Fires, Short Stories).
Dayle Furlong studied English Literature & Fine Arts at York University. Her poetry & fiction has appeared in Taddle Creek, Kiss Machine, The Puritan, Word & The Voice. She works as a literary publicist and has worked as a screenwriter’s assistant for the television series Slings & Arrows. She has lived in all regions of Canada and has travelled throughout Central America, Asia & the US. She writes and lives in Toronto. Open Slowly is her first collection of poetry.
David Livingstone Clink is a poet living a stone’s throw from Toronto, with four plants at death’s door. David is co-publisher, along with Myna Wallin, of believe your own press. BYOP published 20 poetry chapbooks in its 5 year history. David is the author of 5 poetry chapbooks, and the editor of 7 others. He is past Artistic Director of the Art Bar Poetry Series (June 2002 – June 2005), co-organizer, along with Louise Ripley, of the Atkinson Readings at Noon series (2003-2007), and the Artistic Director of the Rowers Pub Reading Series (2007–) . David’s poetry has appeared in over 50 journals in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain, and in 5 anthologies. For more information about David, please visit his Web site, poetrymachine.com.
Ursula Pflug is an award winning writer of literary and genre short fiction, publishing frequently in Canada, the US and the UK. Born in Tunisia in 1958, she grew up in Toronto and travelled widely, to Germany, France, Italy, Tunisia, and throughout Canada and the United States. She has lived in New York City and in Hawaii. She was a contributing editor at “The Peterborough Review” for three years and continues to write art and book reviews and criticism for diverse markets. She has had four plays professionally produced for stage, either as a solo author or as co-writer. She has also written for independent film. Recently, she has been working as a writer/actor with SEASKUM, a Peterborough based women’s theatre group. Her magic realist novel, Green Music, was published in 2002 by Tesseract Books. Formerly a graphic designer in Toronto, she has been living in the rural Kawarthas with her husband Doug Back and their two children for sixteen years.
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IV Lounge Nights: Grab your martini, the I.V. Lounge is Toronto’s coziest place to kick back and listen to fiction or poetry. For ten years, every other Friday night, that’s exactly what has happened at the I.V. Lounge reading series, as fiction writers read alongside poets, emerging talent next to established talent, and local writers with those passing through town. I.V. Lounge Nights gathers twenty-nine talented writers together to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series, and relaxing with literature on a Friday night.
For more information or to request review copies, contact Halli Villegas at Tightrope Books, 416-787-4202, halli@tightropebooks.com.
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Congrats to our Relit Award Longlisters! —Stacey May Fowles' debut novel, Be Good, and Ian Burgham's collection of poetry, The Stone Skippers.