PROROGUE THIS BOOK!

Ottawa poet Stephen Brockwell approached me to collaborate on a very interesting project. We talked it through, did some negotiating. I was game. I approached Mansfield Press publisher Denis De Klerck to see if wanted to be part of it. He was game. Details follow.

PROROGUE THIS BOOK!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JANUARY 14, 2009
CANADIAN WRITERS TO PROTEST PROROGUED PARLIAMENT

Ottawa small business owner Stephen Brockwell, Toronto poet and editor Stuart Ross and, Denis De Klerck, the publisher of Toronto literary house Mansfield Press, will mark Stephen Harper’s Prorogation of parliament with Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Vacation Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament.

Contrary to what the Harper government would have Canadians believe about the “chattering classes,” people are expressing their outrage over Harper’s unilateralism at family dinners, in the workplace, in social media and in print. Professional and aspiring writers across the country have been invited to submit poems for the anthology which will be published by Mansfield Press just in time for the reconvening of Parliament on March 3.

A book launch and protest will be held at or near Parliament Hill on March 5, 2009.

People interested in contributing to Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Vacation Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament should send a poem of no more than 75 lines by e-mail (preferably as a Microsoft Word attachment) to: harper@mansfieldpress.net. Submissions will not be accepted after midnight Tuesday January 19 to ensure timely editing, production and distribution. For more information contact Stephen Brockwell via email or 613 728 5287.

The poems are pouring in.

Over and out.