We’ve had a number of fantastic events here at the shop recently including poetry readings, workshops, open mics, and impromptu Neptune Diner to-go-burger gossip sessions. Strangely the summer is more or less quiet in downtown London as touristy tire-kickers roam the streets, occasionally coming into our shop to ask, “How do you possibly make a living at this?” Perhaps London is an autumn town. Once those kids come back to university and college the whole city rouses up like a napping parent: lunches have to be made; attempts to teach kids HOW to make their OWN bloody lunches have to be made; and the great pageant continues.
We’re hosting an event at the shop on Oct. 22nd that suits this time of year – although more of the poetic autumn tree/Crypt Keeper kind. Willow Switch, Brandyn Dunphy, and SD Henhawke will all be performing in collaboration with Antler River Press. If you haven’t checked out these artists we encourage you to do so. They’re wonderful. Willow Switch has performed at our shop before. We believe ghosts from that performance still haunt the shop. Hopefully a storm will gather over Victoria Park during the event, with orange and yellow lightning illuminating the big shop window behind the artists.
In an unexpected – and completely lovely – turn of events Robin of Willow Switch has invited Jason to recite his Demon Book over the band. Jason is nervous that the combined power of their craft will raise the dead. “It’s a good time of year for it, at least,” he says. He’s never raised the dead before. But, like, Willow Switch is a pretty damned powerful band. They’re borderline illegal, some might say. We sometimes wonder if they’re even real. So to get an invitation to perform with them, even to read poems, is like a Yukon ghost miner asking for help on the job. You don’t say no.
Tickets are still available. Jason hardly ever reads his work aloud anymore (unlike his insufferable younger self.) He didn’t even read anything at his OWN book launch for The Demon Book. So do come out if you can. If you’re middle-aged and a bit wonky in your skin then come support the fever dream that is an older man still reaching for beauty, even if that beauty is seen through the eyes of poetically-inclined demonically possessed Ontario farmers.
We’re hosting an event at the shop on Oct. 22nd that suits this time of year – although more of the poetic autumn tree/Crypt Keeper kind. Willow Switch, Brandyn Dunphy, and SD Henhawke will all be performing in collaboration with Antler River Press. If you haven’t checked out these artists we encourage you to do so. They’re wonderful. Willow Switch has performed at our shop before. We believe ghosts from that performance still haunt the shop. Hopefully a storm will gather over Victoria Park during the event, with orange and yellow lightning illuminating the big shop window behind the artists.
In an unexpected – and completely lovely – turn of events Robin of Willow Switch has invited Jason to recite his Demon Book over the band. Jason is nervous that the combined power of their craft will raise the dead. “It’s a good time of year for it, at least,” he says. He’s never raised the dead before. But, like, Willow Switch is a pretty damned powerful band. They’re borderline illegal, some might say. We sometimes wonder if they’re even real. So to get an invitation to perform with them, even to read poems, is like a Yukon ghost miner asking for help on the job. You don’t say no.
Tickets are still available. Jason hardly ever reads his work aloud anymore (unlike his insufferable younger self.) He didn’t even read anything at his OWN book launch for The Demon Book. So do come out if you can. If you’re middle-aged and a bit wonky in your skin then come support the fever dream that is an older man still reaching for beauty, even if that beauty is seen through the eyes of poetically-inclined demonically possessed Ontario farmers.
Update: photos the the event
