Here you’ll find updates on some of Ingrid’s recent projects, engagements, and publications (current month highlighted):
2009
NOVEMBER
- Review - of Jeffrey Round’s The Honey Locust, forthcoming in Quill & Quire.
- Poems - upcoming, eight poems featured in Gloom Cupboard.
- Poems - read selected fragments from Ingrid’s ongoing text-image ms, online at ditch.
- Profile - of Ingrid and her work featured in the September – November 2009 issue of the arts magazine Surfacing. Copies are available in libraries and other locations throughout Durham Region.
- Group show - Coming in December, at Artspace on the Mezzanine in Bowmanville. Details to follow.
- Forthcoming book - Richard Outram: Essays on His Works, a volume on the work of Canadian poet Richard Outram, edited by (and with contributions from) Ingrid for Guernica Editions’ Writers Series, will soon be available. Contributors to the book also include: Brian Bartlett, Michael Carbert, Robert Denham, Jeffery Donaldson, Steven Heighton, Amanda Jernigan, Eric Ormsby, Peter Sanger, & Zachariah Wells. More on the series can be found here.
- Solo Exhibition - May 3 – June 21, 2010 at Ontario Power Generation Information Centre, 1675 Montgomery Park Road, Pickering, Ontario L1V 2R5. Open to the public Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is free. Details of other shows in Clarington and elsewhere to be announced. Visit this page again for updates.
Earlier this year
- REVIEW - of Heather Spears’ poetry collection I can still draw (Wolsak & Wynn, 2008) published in Northern Poetry Review.
- REVIEW - online at Quill & Quire, the correct version of the review of Perfecting, first printed in Q&Q’s June issue. Read it here.
- REVIEW - of the novel After the Red Night by Christiane Frenette (Cormorant Books, 2009), in Quill & Quire, July issue. Read it here.
- READING & DISCUSSION - “More Than Meets The Ear: Artists and Writers in Dialogue”, an evening of readings and discussion among artists and writers whose work has been featured in Artspace on the Mezzanine: Ingrid, Jean-Michel Komarnicki, Helen Bajorek MacDonald, Sally Thurlow, Greg Ward, and Kristin McCrea, at the Clarington Public Library in Bowmanville.
- POEMS - published in Grain Magazine, Volume 36.3.
- REVIEW - of the novel Perfecting by Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer (Goose Lane, 2009) in Quill & Quire, June issue.
- VOLUNTEER POST - Ingrid joined the board of directors of southern Ontario’s traveling outdoor Shakespearean troupe, The Driftwood Theatre Group.
- REVIEW - published in Northern Poetry Review of South of North, a posthumous collection of Richard Outram’s poems (Porcupine’s Quill, 2007). (More on the work of Outram – and his Gauntlet Press collaboration with his wife, the artist Barbara Howard – is available via the electronic collection/website archived at Memorial University.)
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In 2008
- SOLO EXHIBITION - Fragments of the Missing, Ingrid’s mixed media work featuring text from her latest manuscript, shown throughout November at Artspace on the Mezzanine in the Clarington Public Library, Bowmanville, Ontario. A reading & discussion is slated for spring 2009; details above.
- POEMS - published in The Antigonish Review(#154), Room (31.2), Descant (141, “Excavations”), and The Malahat Review (#164).
- REVIEW - “Weighing the Novella”, a double review of Smuggling Donkeys by David Helwig and Room Tone by Gale Zoë Garnett, published in CNQ Canadian Notes & Queries. Read the full review here.
- CHAPBOOK/BROADSHEET – of the poem cycle, Slipstream, in the works.
- READING – at the Oshawa Public Library, with poet Maureen Hynes and others. Hosted by the Writers’ Circle of Durham Region. View photos here.
- READING – with Cathy Buchanan and others at Toronto launch party for Descant’s “Excavations” issue.
- SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT – with classes at Durham Alternative Secondary School in Oshawa.
