Note: this is my original diary entry for this day.
Showing posts with label Vehicule Poets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vehicule Poets. Show all posts
Friday, June 20, 2008
Farewell, Artie (text)
Farewell, Artie (photographs)
Outside Artie's old flat on Lorne Crescent: (left to right) Carolyn-Marie Souaid, Jill Torre, Carol Harwood, Endre Farkas, Luci King-Edwards, Chris Knudson.
Endre reading the first of several poems by Artie that afternoon; Luci and Chris.
Lorne Crescent. Top of stairs, door to the right, Artie and Mary Brown's home.
The back porch of Lorne Crescent.
The Yellow Door Coffee House, on Aylmer, another of Artie's hang-outs.
Luci King-Edwards reading one of Artie's poems outside The Word Bookstore on Milton, where Artie spent many afternoons.
Jill Torre reading one of Artie's poems outside of the building (now renovated) where he lived after Lorne Crescent.
Endre and Carolyn-Marie Souaid.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
The Vehicule Poets
The Vehicule Poets, Montreal, Maker Press, 1979. Front cover, top: Ken Norris, Tom Konyves, Stephen Morrissey; back cover, bottom: Endre Farkas, Claudia Lapp, Artie Gold, John McAuley. Group photo taken at Vehicule Art Gallery by Chris Knudsen.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Vehicule Press Publications 1978-79
Publications
1978 –79
Vehicule Press
1978 –79
Vehicule Press
New Titles
Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood
By Sherrill Grace
Before Romantic Words
By Artie Gold
What Henry Hudson Found & Other Poems
By John McAuley
Baby Grand
By Guy Birchard
The Trees of Unknowing
By Stephen Morrissey
Inter Sleep: The Box in Which He Keeps His Voice
By Opal L. Nations
The Perfect Accident
By Ken Norris
No Parking
By Tom Konyves
I Don’t Know
By David McFadden
Our 1978 Bestseller:
Montreal: English Poetry of the Seventies
Edited by Andre Farkas and Ken Norris
Selected Backlist:
The Concrete Island: Montreal Poems 1967 –71
By George Bowering
Vegetables (2nd edition)
By Ken Norris
Nothing Ever Happens in Pointe Claire
By John McAuley
Honey
By Claudia Lapp
Murders in the Welcome Café
By Andre Farkas
The Strange Case of Inspector Loophole
By Opal L. Nations
Violent Duality: A Study of Margaret Atwood
By Sherrill Grace
Before Romantic Words
By Artie Gold
What Henry Hudson Found & Other Poems
By John McAuley
Baby Grand
By Guy Birchard
The Trees of Unknowing
By Stephen Morrissey
Inter Sleep: The Box in Which He Keeps His Voice
By Opal L. Nations
The Perfect Accident
By Ken Norris
No Parking
By Tom Konyves
I Don’t Know
By David McFadden
Our 1978 Bestseller:
Montreal: English Poetry of the Seventies
Edited by Andre Farkas and Ken Norris
Selected Backlist:
The Concrete Island: Montreal Poems 1967 –71
By George Bowering
Vegetables (2nd edition)
By Ken Norris
Nothing Ever Happens in Pointe Claire
By John McAuley
Honey
By Claudia Lapp
Murders in the Welcome Café
By Andre Farkas
The Strange Case of Inspector Loophole
By Opal L. Nations
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Vehicule Poets at Place des Arts
Tom Konyves, Endre Farkas, and Claudia Lapp, Montreal, April 2004
In April, 2004, the Vehicule poets celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary. It was a quarter century since the days when Ken Norris, Artie Gold, Claudia Lapp, John McAuley, Tom Konyves, Endre Farkas, and I met every Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. for readings at Vehicule Art Gallery on Ste. Catherine Street West. Since then we’ve all gone our separate way: Ken to Maine, Tom to British Columbia, Claudia is in Oregon, Artie died in February 2007, and John McAuley, Endre Farkas and I are still here in Montreal. But we still have the occasional reunion or a project we work on together. The last reunion was a gala reading on April 8, 2004, "Cabaret Vehicule," at Le Septieme Salle de Place des Arts, with an overflow audience of 300 people. That evening, a dance troupe performed a selection of our poems and then there was a short reading by each of us, with Ruth Taylor reading for Artie who was not well enough to attend. As well, an anthology, The Vehicule Poets_Now, edited by Tom Konyves and I, was launched. Now, video excerpts of the readings are available online at the Vehicule Poets website.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)