CORNELIA HOOGLAND
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Tourists Stroll a Victoria Waterway makes CBC longlist!
Short list announced Wednesday, November 15th! ​

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Tourists Stroll a Victoria Waterway (the first of four sections)
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The double-decker. The preserved,
random address book:
Tiffany, Jasmine, Jill, Crystal, Kelly, Warren.
Clouds the colour of tea, afternoon,
the Inner harbour. Journal and English schoolgirl
Nivea cream in her backpack.
She was finding her voice like the social worker said.
She hadn't written a word. Was found   
inscribed on Portage Inlet, Craigflower Bridge,
the last overpass before the cigarette
stubbed into her forehead. Call it Bindi,
her mother said, but black. There were
Greyhound busses rolling past the Empress,
girls gliding through the school halls
on platform heels, saying No you're not.
I’m thrilled Tourists Stroll a Victoria Waterway is one of 33 long-listed poems (selected from more than 2,400 English-language submissions) for the CBC Poetry Prize. Four finalists will be announced on November 15, 2017. “Tourists Stroll a Victoria Waterway” is a long poem, 20 years in the making. These poems are based on the newspaper clippings my Mother sent to me about Reena Virk's murder in Victoria's Gorge waterway, as well as my research and other books such as Heather Spear’s “Required Reading.”I still have the now-yellow newspaper articles.
Inspiration behind the Poem

As the 2019 Writer-in-residence at the Whistler Literary Festival, I worked with writers on their long and short fiction, memoir and poetry. My own project, titled Snowing Inside, involves working with sounds at dawn––listening recording and finding the human bandwidth in Whistler's lake and mountain soundscape. 

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Trailer Park Elegy, Harbour, 2019

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The Comox Valley Record 

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League of Canadian Poets for details.  Congratulations to my fellow poets, Benjamin Hertwig, Canisia Lubrin, Puneet Dutt, Karen Enns and Billy-Rae Belcourt. READ POEMS FROM THESE FINALISTS AT LEAGUE BLOG

SHORTLISTED BOOKS FOR THE LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS.
​WHEN DID POETRY BECOME A PART OF YOUR LIFE?  
 I suspect that like most people, I learned the musical patterns of my mother tongue (Dutch) before birth. Before language carries meaning, it exists as a sensory bath, musical and embracing. Research tells us that babies prefer the songs and rhymes their mothers sang to them in the last stages of pregnancy, in their own languages. I remember as a child the giddy pleasure in rhyming, in jokes, bathroom language and in saying things out loud. And still now, a word...(continued at the League of Canadian Poets website)

HOOGLAND APPEARS IN BC BOOKWORLD WHO'S WHO

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HOOGLAND APPEARS IN Association of Book Publishers of B.C​

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​BOOK REVIEWS

Poetry Review of Trailer Park Elegy, Pulp Literature, reviewed by Emily Osborne.

Poetry Review of Trailer Park Elegy, the Malahat Review, reviewed by Barbara Colebrook Peace. 

A Brotherly Love Revisited, The Ormsby Review, Reviewed by Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes   

Review: Trailer Park Elegy, League of Canadian Poets, Reviewed by Vanessa
Shield.


Review of Trailer Park Elegy, Quill & Quire, January 25, 2018, reviewed by Micheline Maylor,  


Touring in Toronto: enjoyed reading from TRAILER PARK ELEGY, also the city, the people, my hosts, and the food. OMG. The Grasshopper on College--the seitan dish is amazing. Thanks to The Art Bar, Knife Fork Book, and The Common Reading. 


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Well, that was very fun. Thanks to all who helped make TRAILER PARK ELEGY'S shortlist position on the CBC Poetry Prize so exciting.  

Section 3 of Tourists, on location

Text version of Tourists Stroll a Victoria Waterway.
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FIVE SHORTLISTED POETS

Cornelia Hoogland
Laboni Islam 
Sarah Kabamba
Alessandra Naccarato
Harold Rhenisch
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Hear complete Poem

Past Events

August 22, 7 pm Outdoor Stage, Gallery in the Woods, Hornby Island Arts Council, Hornby Island, BC

August 18, 6 pm Outdoor Stage, Gallery in the Woods, Hornby Island Arts Council, Hornby Island, BC

April 25 2 pm Saltspring Library, Saltspring Island, with Amanda Hale


November 17, Saturday, 1 pm, Harbourfront Library, Nanaimo, with Pat Smekal, hosted by Tina Bielo

November 15, 6 pm, Bastion Books, Victoria, with Amanda Hale 

October 13, Saturday, 11:30 Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Whistler Writers Festival with Billy-Ray Belcourt, Lorna Crozier, Laisha Rosnau

September 29 Saturday, Poetry Weekend, Fredericton

September 28 Friday, 8-10 pm Saint John Arts Centre, Fog Festival, with Bruce Meyer and Clyde Wray

September 27 Thursday @ 6:30, The Abbey, 546 Queen Street, Fredericton, with Chris Bailey and Nathaniel Moore

September 25 Tuesday, University of Regina, 8 pm, with Judy LeBlanc

September 24rd Monday, St. Pete’s 7 pm, with Judy LeBlanc

September 23rd Sunday, 3:00 pm - Storefront, Saskatoon McNally Robinson Booksellers with Judy LeBlanc


September 22, Saturday, 7-9 pm, Audreys Books, 10702 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, AB, with Judy LeBlanc, Alice Major and Kelly Shepherd

September 4, 2018, 8 pm
Phone Booth, Joe King Comedy Show with Jenny Brown 

Joe King Park, Hornby Island, BC

August 9, 2018, 7 pm
What I Missed the First Time: The Fairy Tales at Midlife
Outdoor Stage, Gallery in the Woods, Hornby Island, BC

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July 12, 2108, 7 pm
What We Think About When We Think about Hornby: Island Writers Read 
Outdoor Stage, Gallery in the Woods, Hornby Island, BC
With other Hornby writers.

NORTH ISLAND LIBRARY TOUR JUNE 20-22
with Judy LeBlanc, The Promise of Water

June 20 - Cortes Island Library 2:30pm
June 20 - Quadra Island Library 6:45pm
June 21 - Tahsis Library 5pm
June 22 - Gold River Library 3:30 pm

June 12, 2018, 2-4 pm
Vancouver Island launch of Gush: Menstrual Manifestos for our Times
with Janet Miller, Kim Clark, Sonnet L'Abbe
Nanaimo Harbourfront Library
 90 Commercial Street, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5G4In celebration of

June 8, 2018, at 1 p.m. and at 7:30 p.m.
World Oceans Day
at Oceans of Wisdom (curated by Sussan Thomson and Wendy Pope), at the Denman Community Hall on Denman Island, B.C.

Tuesday, May 29 at 7 p.m.
at Surrey Centre Public Library

Room 120, 10350 University Dr, Surrey, BC V3T 4B8
with Kate Braid and Mercedes Eng,
hosted by Renee Saklikar, Poet Laureate of Surrey

Sunday May 6, 2018 from 1 - 4 p.m. 
​McLoughlin Gardens, 814 Tasman Road, Merville, BC 
or: https://www.mcloughlingardens.org/contact/

Friday April 20, 2018 at 1:30 pm– 
New Horizons Reading, host Sheila Martindale
234  Menzies Street, Victoria, B.C. 

Friday April 20, 2018 at 7:30 pm– 
Planet Earth Reading Series, host Daniel Scott
Hillside Coffee and Tea (103-1633 Hillside Avenue). Victoria.
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Sunday, April 22, 12:30
Centennial Square, host Victoria Poet Laureate Yvonne Blomer
​as part of Earth's Day 
Poems for the Planet.

Tuesday, February 27, 2018, 9 a.m. 
Radio interview, CFRC 101.9 FM Bruce Kauffman’s program called Finding a Voice: https://findingavoiceoncfrcfm.wordpress.com/
Kingston, Ontario.

Sunday, Feb 18, 2018, 9 p.m.
WIRED ON WORDS AND MUSIC SHOW
At the Casa del Popolo, Ian Ferrier, host.
4602 boul. St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec H2T 1R6
With Sean McGarragle, Seeley Quest, and Dance by Marie-Pier Gilbert and music by Cookie Magique

Monday February 12, 2018, 7 p.m.
Brown & Dickson Booksellers
609 Richmond Street, London, Ontario,
Canada, N6A 3G3 226-667-4977  ​

Sunday February 11, 2018, 4 p.m. 
Quaker Meeting House
Sparta Road, Sparta, ON
Hosted by Julie Berry and Friends, (250 218 2222)

Tuesday February 6, 2018 - Rowers, Toronto
https://www.facebook.com/Rowersreadingseries/
https://www.facebook.com/events/155388971692030/
Glad Day Bookshop 499 Church Street Toronto
Tuesday February 6 At 7 Pm To 9 Pm
With Marc Di Salverio Nora Gold Catherine Graham

​Sunday February 4, 2018 - Lit Live, Hamilton
The Staircase 27 Dundurn St N Hamilton
Sunday Feb 4 2018 7:30
David Coleman, Danila Botha, David Peter Clark and Gary Barwin

Thursday February 1, 2018
12 noon, reading at 12:30
New Horizons Literary Lunch,
1765 Sollans Road, Hornby Island, B.C. V0R 1Z0

Wednesday, January 24, 2018, Radio CFRO 100.5 FM, Interview hosts RC Weslowski, Pamela Bentley, and Kevin Spenst http://www.coopradio.org

​Thursday January 25, 2018 - Pandora’s Collective Presents TWISTED POETS LITERARY SALON
https://www.facebook.com/events/1784719255143646

Monday December 11, 2017 - The Common Reading Series, Toronto

​Thursday December 7, 2017 - Knife and Fork, Toronto

Tuesday December 5, 2017  8:00 - 10:30pm- The Art Bar, Toronto

Thursday, November 23, 2017 at 6 p.m. Laughing Oyster Books and Courtenay Public Library present Cornelia Hoogland and Judy LeBlanc. 
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Saturday, November 4, 2017 at 7p.m. at The West Village Theatre (2007 10 Ave SW) in Calgary Alberta. My long poem, "10 HEXAGRAMS FOR 10 PROVINCES, 3 TERRITORIES" was one of ten winners in the Canada 150 Poetry contest (sponsored by Calgary Spoken Word Society │Single Onion │Free Fall Magazine & Canada 150)


Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 7 p.m. Bolen Books in Victoria. With Shane Nielson,  Jim Johnstone,  Joe Denham.

Monday, October 23rd at 7 p.m. With Ilya Tourtidis (Romancing Eternity, Ekstasis) at The Red Tree Specialty Coffee, hosted by Dan Kirk, #106-2456 Rosewall Crescent, Courtenay, B.C. 

Sunday October 22nd at 3:00 pm. This special Poetry* Hornby Island event will be at the Hornby Island Community Hall, 4305 Sollans Rd., Hornby Island, B.C. Readers also include Judy LeBlanc, and Arleen Pare. 

Saturday October 21st at 7:00 pm. This special Fat Oyster event “of the year” (writes Zoe Lambert), will be at the Fanny Bay Hall. Readers include Judy LeBlanc, Arleen Pare, and Cornelia Hoogland.

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Vallum's Poem of the Week 

​Photo of the Sculptor as a Young Boy


​At eighteen months the boy has the clarity of a tuning fork;
an interior self set to a faint vibration,
caused, no doubt, by the slide of rubber on skin
as he catches the ball he’s been handed
and instructed to hold. His vivid grip--
the way his piano fingers span the circumference--
compels the viewer not to his sweet face
but to the instrument of his body, hands in particular,
made for holding the tension
in the mapping of surfaces:
see his thumb worry that fleck of loose paint. The burn
of his life’s work ahead of him.
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for readings, workshops, individual consultation, Poetry* Hornby Island, and inquiries.

Contact Margo Lapierre MARGO LAPIERRE at guernicaeditions dot com

Cornelia Hoogland chooglan at uwo dot ca 250 218 2222 

Telephone

250-335-1150
cell 250 218-2222

Email

chooglan AT uwo DOT ca
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