$3000 marketing and publicity budget Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements Advertising in up-and-coming journal Poetry is Dead
Writer, filmmaker, teacher, critic and poet Colin Browne is the author of Abraham (Brick Books, 1987) and the critically acclaimed book of poetry Ground Water (Talonbooks, 2002), which was nominated for a Governor General's Poetry Award and a BC Book Prize in 2003. His documentary films include Father and Son and White Lake, which was nominated for a Canadian Film Award for Best Feature Documentary. He was an editor of Writing magazine and co-founder of the Kootenay School of Writing and the Praxis Centre for Screenwriters. Most recently he completed a documentary portrait of jazz musician Linton Garner, Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye, which was screened at the Vancouver Film Festival and aired on CBC's Opening Night series. Browne teaches production, screenwriting and film history at Simon Fraser University's School for the Contemporary Arts.
“Colin Browne’s books can delight you in all ways. He is erudite
and he is a slangster. Again in this big new volume we happily find
an alarming cohabitation of learnedness and tomfoolery. He will
quote from Plato and Frank Loesser on the same page. And there is
so much there … Reading silently anywhere in the book, you can feel
the words on your lips, he is so attentive to them. And once you
sink into reading you know that you could be here forevermore.”
—George Bowering
“From rhythm sticks of phrases and words, cross-cultural as well as
deeply familial, Colin Browne musics together a powerful series of
poems, a mnemonic for ‘lighting up the routes between worlds.’
Recurrent war thrums in the ‘lyre’ strings of the local, even in
the cables of Vancouver’s soaring bridge. These poems light up like
accurate stars the “dark bight” we constantly ‘skiff’ across. The
Properties is a major work from a poet writing at the peak of both
outrage and love.”
— Daphne Marlatt
“In their wide-ranging, restless yet nevertheless focused reach,
Colin Browne’s poems are packed with the unexpected detail only an
alert mind can record, and in their refusal to explain themselves
exhilarate the reader to connect, in his or her own surprised
wonder, the seen with the unseen, the familiar with the strange;
generating that invisible world always behind and in words. ‘Here
there’s only now,’ says one poem, ‘beyond knowing.’ There’s a
pedagogy here, and celebration—love, delight and thought their
properties.”
—Peter Quartermain
“An environment of modulations, of feelings that don’t reveal
themselves as nameable, sellable. Not aesthetic properties. Nothing
redeeming in the destruction of cities. Not more musical to bomb an
opera house than to bomb a factory. Hence: Stravinsky, Igor. Each
tonal anchor only a pretext to swim into another key. Hence:
Strauss, Richard. Such terrible accidents. Intersections not
revelations. So much out, everything in. Crossings not
consummations. What music exactly envies. Erudition
without knowingness, quality of always. Always of something
discovered not told.”
—Donato Mancini
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