Birthday greetings to rob mclennan

Happy birthday to rob mclennan, author of  how it is I am not married / I want to sleep in the runcible spoon, and tireless educator, promoter, and publisher of the contemporary craft, has a birthday today.

There are still copies of his book available at Lipstick - $8.00 plus shipping.

Email lipstickpress@shaw.ca

Happy Birthday Franci Louann

Poet Franci Louann, creator of Beach Cardiology, has a birthday today. Hope it's a beach.


For her birthday on March 5th, she is asking her friends and family for a special gift: help her raise $650 for Unitarian Universalists Respond to Christchurch Earthquake.
She chose Unitarian Universalists Respond to Christchurch Earthquake because she met their UU minister (in the Cathedral Cafe) in December 2009.

Franci Louann reads from Beach Cardiology January 30th

Sunday January 30th

2:30 pm  

at Renaissance Books
43 6th St New Westminster
(just up from Columbia station)

Books available for purchase at the reading - $8 each

Come out and buy a coffee - and a book or two

Also at this location: Poetic Justice at 4pm

featuring Marc Creamore

hosted by Ruth Kozak
open mic after Marc's reading, until 6pm



Wishing you inspiration throughout the coming year

May we be prosperous in creative thoughts; may they find pages, stages and voices. May we write and read and play. May we love and be loved. May we create big, brainstorm, get excited, be enthusiastic.

May we remain gentle and passionate, converging these elements into compassion.

Beach Cardiology Review from Sho Wiley

"the way each poem poises me on the high diving board then walks away so I take the plunge myself---this is poetry as an art"

Beach Cardiology now available at Page's Resort and Marina Bookstore

Their unique book and marine charts store

"specializes in local Gabriolian writers and illustrators, Gulf Island publications and a wide selection of cruising guides.


The incredible variety of books is a tribute to the wide array of talent on Gabriola, The Island of the Arts. Page’s is a renowned venue at which they host many of the local artists to launch and sign their newest works.

They also supply Canadian Hydrographic Service charts and Tide Tables of the surrounding waters as well as popular destinations"

Beach Cardiology by Franci Louann

Lipstick Press is pleased to announce Franci Louann's first chapbook, Beach Cardiology, a collection of poems covering five decades and four continents.

The title refers to the dreams and hopes that expire unrequited, and turn to stone on a beach somewhere.

The first stanza of the eponymous piece, which appears on the back of the cover:

all of the stones
on this beach
are shaped
like hearts

appears at first, to be optimistic, hopeful, as though everything on the beach where land ends and the ocean begins, is in tune with the human heart. However the final stanza reveals the fear that follows hope.

The heart sees signs in everything. The  poem titled "That Night" is about openings in images and relationships when Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party comes to town, foreshadowing the meeting of a new love.

In these poems, inanimate objects predict what the mind doesn't want to allow. The backpack foretells the end of an affair, the half moon announces the ache for the missing half, a Palestinian scarf becomes a flag when a rabbi and his family walk by.

Franci Louann was born in Stratford, Ontario, (known then as Frances Louann Workman) and moved to the West Coast in the late sixties. Her poems have appeared in Woman’s Eye: 12 BC Poets (edited by Dorothy Livesay, Vancouver: Air, 1974), various other publications, in print and online, and have won prizes from Pandora’s Collective, Burnaby Writers’ Society, and the Vancouver Folk Music Festival 25th Anniversary Memorable Moments contest. In 2007, she received World Poetry’s Volunteer Media Award, and was appointed World Poetry Ambassador to Australia and New Zealand 2009-2010.

Lipstick Press
767 Chelwood Road, RR #1
Gabriola BC V0R 1X1

lipstickpress@shaw.ca
http://www.lipstickpress.com/

ISBN: 978-0-9781204-8-1

Cover photo © 2010 Franci Louann
24 pages

$8 plus shipping
To order send an email to lipstickpress@shaw.ca

Belated Birthday Wishes to Keith Wilkinson

It was Saturday, November 13th, and Lipstick Press is sorry for forgetting. Keith's chapbook Winter Gifts was published last year. Copies of the book are still available for your seasonal shopping at Lipstick.

Al Rempel reading from Picket Fence Diaries and Understories October 14

The Caledonia Writers' Series presents:

Lisa Haslett, Joanna Smythe and Al Rempel

7pm

Thursday, October 14, 2010

at CNC, 3330 22nd Ave, Prince George

Room 1 306.

Admission free.

Photos: Launch of The Picket Fence Diaries

The launch at Nancy O's in Prince George was attended by fans, friends and family.

and here is the author reading.

Wish I could have been there - those who were please leave your comments below.

Thanks to Jayson Hencheroff for allowing us to post these photos.

Lipstick Press books now available at Page's Marina on Gabriola

All books published by Lipstick Press, except Grief Blading Up (because we have sold out) are available at Page's Resort and Marina bookstore, 3350 Coast Road, Gabriola Island, British Columbia
V0R 1X7. Phone: (250) 247-8931. Fax: (250) 247-8997. mail@pagesresort.com.

Thanks to book shop owners everywhere and particularly to the community spirit on Gabriola Island.

If you need a map visit the Gabriola Web Directory