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Blue Notes

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Turning another page on Blue Met 2012

by Marianne Ackerman
24.04.2012

A literary long weekend with ninety-one events means there will be many possible festivals, depending on your choices. My best experiences at the 14th edition of Blue Metropolis happened along side-roads.

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BLUE MET

Face to Face

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Esi Edugyan at the Blue Met: review and podcast

by Martyn Bryant
21.04.2012

In the introductory lines of Half-Blood Blues (reviewed by The Rover last year) Sid gives us a sense of Chip, “He got this booming voice, and when he talked it overwhelmed the air, shoved it aside like oil in a cup of water.”

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VIDEO

Mashup Montréal

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Imagine Montréal, by Marianne Ackerman, Blue Metropolis

by Leila Marshy
10.05.2011

10 actors. 25 writers. 1 night in Montréal. The worlds of fiction, theatre, music – and now film – overlapped in Marianne Ackerman’s Imagine Montréal. Staged for the second time on at the Blue Metropolis, the words were culled from over two dozen works published since 2000. All set in Montreal, it portrays a city about to fall and about to fly. A contradiction we know all too well.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Drinking the Literary Cocktail

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BLOGGING THE BLUE MET

by Veena Gokhale
01.05.2011

Even as I was flitting about, I had an acute sense of all the simultaneous events I was missing. It was a fitting frame of mind for encountering Gore Vidal, in flesh. Described as a supernova by interviewer Michael Enright (CBC), he remains witty, articulate and iconoclastic, reminding us that all things must pass (he is 85).

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FESTIVAL CITY

A Pole, A Croat, and a Gay Guy…

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BLOGGING THE BLUE MET

by Katia Grubisic
01.05.2011

Outside, the conversation continues. It is the kind of day when everybody seems to have spent the winter procreating and getting better looking. The sparrows have been practicing indoors for months in a warehouse in Mirabel.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Loving the Queen of Malabar

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BLOGGING THE BLUE MET

by Katia Grubisic
30.04.2011

No happy woman writes, the old saw goes, but more probably the truth is that no one wants to read the slaw of a happy woman’s writing. Contradictions and conflict are the moving parts of both art and life. Last fall, I reviewed Merrily Weisbord’s book on Kamala Das—part tribute, part biography—in these virtual pages. [...]

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FESTIVAL CITY

Peut-être le destin

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BLOGGING THE BLUE MET

by Katia Grubisic
30.04.2011

Anglo poet friends, I have disclaimers: it is late, much prose and verse has swooped in the ten-dollar-beer swill under the bar bridge, and the English-language contemporary Canadian poet parallels I offer to these Noroît poets are superficial impressions rather than in-depth anythings. But you should read their work, and purchase it, and probably buy them a beer, sawbucker or otherwise.

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FESTIVAL CITY

Blood, Sweat and Publishing

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BLOGGING THE BLUE MET

by Veena Gokhale
29.04.2011

As for making money, forget it. This is a labour of love! The real rewards are having readers beyond your immediate family.

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FESTIVAL CITY

When in Canada

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BLOGGING THE BLUE MET

by Veena Gokhale
28.04.2011

The title of the event, Reading Canada: Fiction in English from Coast to Coast, remained an enigma. Both writers admitted to no real fictional grounding in Canada.

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BOOKS

The World According to Linda

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Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis, Signature Editions, By Linda Leith

by Gillian Lane-Mercier
24.04.2011

Yet when it comes to the larger cultural and political narrative, this exclusively subjective perspective ends up reinforcing the very motif of the Two Solitudes that Blue Metropolis sought to undermine.

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