Chilean Master Class with Barry Dempster MEMORY: IN THE MOMENT - A Writing Workshop with Barry Dempster
Chile, January 16 to January 29, 2011 -
Price includes: Master Class, Accommodation, Meals, Outings to Santiago, Valparaiso
Participation is limited. Contact Susan Siddeley at m... more
YORK REGION AUTHOR FINALIST FOR PREMIER'S ARTS AWARD YORK REGION AUTHOR FINALIST FOR PREMIER’S ARTS AWARD
York Region author and poet Barry Dempster has been selected as one of six finalists for the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. The Premier’s Award recognizes outs... more
BLUE WHEREVER - Just Published! "In the new world, we wake up/to a bone ark bobbing on the blue whereever," Dempster writes in the title poem of this new collection, his twelfth book of poetry. He connects the intensity of loving someone with the visceral vividness of being alive,... more
The Lyrical Tradition Celebrates Beauty Poetry: Pretty is as Pretty Does
The lyrical tradition celebrates beauty
By Barbara Carey Books Reporter , Toronto Star, published on Friday March 26, 2010
Barry Dempster’s Ivan’s Birches (78 pages, $20) comes from Toronto’s... more
Prairie Fire Review of Love Outlandish Love Outlandishby Barry DempsterLondon, ON: Brick Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1-894078-70-2, 111 pp., $19.00 paper.
In Love Outlandish, Barry Dempster presents love in many shapes from shifting angles, then collates the results, from the passionate an... more
UPROAR, WHAT A GORGEOUS WORD: BARRY DEMPSTER with BETH FOLLETT Interview from www.openbooktoronto.com
BF:
What led you to write poetry? What were some of the very first poems you read?
BD:
I used to think that poetry was some stranger on a crowded street who in a mindless rush just happened to bump into me,... more
Ivan's Birches IVAN'S BIRCHES is a collection of poems about the connection between seeingthe world and falling in love with it. It evolved from a walk in an Ontario woods, coming upon a sudden birch grove reminiscent of Andrei Tarkovsky's film, Ivan's... more
Love Outlandish March 2009 "Talk about luscious, limber language! The wonderful poems of Barry Dempster in Love Outlandish extend the possibilities of 'love lives' themselves-what doesn't quite work out becomes, thanks to careful, original imagery and vibrant description,... more
Burning Alphabet Winner of the 2006 CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award. Shortlisted for the 2005 Governor General's Award for Poetry and longlisted for the 2006 ReLit Awards.
"Few if any poets encompass the range, the dynamism, and the spectrum of... more
The Words Wanting Out The Words Wanting OutPoems Selected and Newby Barry Dempster
"Let's not mince words: the poetry in The Words Wanting Out: Poems Selected and New is as good as it gets in this country.If it seemed a good idea to nominate Barry Dempster's first book... more
