Category: Stop! Look! Listen!

Our most recent Radio Fiddlehead Podcast is a round table on the best poetry books of the 2000’s featuring James Langer, Sharon McCartney, and Anita Lahey.

In the comments please enter your own lists!  Say why you like the books you are listing. 

Congratulations to Sue Goyette, who has been nominated for the 2011 National Magazine Award in poetry for her three poems, “Disrupted,” “Recession,” and “Fog: Forgotten Names Begin Their Journey Home.” All three poems were published in The Fiddlehead 244 (Summer 2010).

Here in New Brunswick, there are signs of spring everywhere, the snow is rapidly becoming a distant memory, the fiddlehead ferns are popping up along the riverbanks, and The Fiddlehead contest issue – no. 247 – is out!

April is National Poetry Month and the League of Canadian Poets has organized a series of readings, performances, and displays that celebrate poets, libraries and twenty-five years of the Public Lending Right Commission. Check out the League’s National Poetry Month blog.

The Spring 2011 issue of The Fiddlehead (no. 247) will be hitting the newsstands and subscribers’ mailboxes in late April and early May. Featured in the issue are the winners and honourable mentions of our Twentieth Annual Literary Contest and new poetry and fiction from writers such as Darryl Whetter, Micheal Laverty, Richardo Pau-Llosa.

The Fiddlehead is a proud auction donor in support of Margaret Atwood in Vancouver, a fundraiser to benefit the Writer's Trust of Canada. Check out the Online Auction of Literary Collectibles, which runs from January 26th at 12:00 a.m.

In January 2011, Editorial Assistant Peter Forestell sat down with John Barton, poet, editor of The Malahat Review, and the University of New Brunswick's 2010-11 writer-in-residence, to talk about his latest book of poems, Hymn, as well as the politics of being a gay writer in Canada.