My friend, occasional co-conspirator and eternal nemesis, Craig Francis Power, launches his first novel “Blood Relatives” in one week at The Ship inn. You need to go and be there, and buy a book. I will.
The fact that the two of us, a Newfoundland ying/yang is there ever was, are both simultaneously bearing books this fall, is fey in itself.
CFP and I are both Art-Jesuits, trained by NSCAD, sent out in the world’s fringes. We both have laboured as artists, cum critics, cum curators, and have met together, facing opposite sides of art’s battlements. Alas, last time he did win (2007 Fresh Fish Award), but the day remains young.
I cannot imagine two Newfoundland novels more different than Blood Relations and Firmament. Although both are born and bred via blue-chip Canadian indie publishers (Pedlar Press and Gaspereau Press), the semblance is both nigh and healthy.
See you next Tuesday, and prepare to return in a month.
The fact that the two of us, a Newfoundland ying/yang is there ever was, are both simultaneously bearing books this fall, is fey in itself.
CFP and I are both Art-Jesuits, trained by NSCAD, sent out in the world’s fringes. We both have laboured as artists, cum critics, cum curators, and have met together, facing opposite sides of art’s battlements. Alas, last time he did win (2007 Fresh Fish Award), but the day remains young.
I cannot imagine two Newfoundland novels more different than Blood Relations and Firmament. Although both are born and bred via blue-chip Canadian indie publishers (Pedlar Press and Gaspereau Press), the semblance is both nigh and healthy.
See you next Tuesday, and prepare to return in a month.
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