I started the year off right when I delivered a poem for the Mayor's Levee in Cobourg on the afternoon of January 1st. The Mayor's Levee is a tradition that dates way back to Louis XIV who would invite gentlemen to his chamber on new year's day so they could hear what his plans were for the coming year. A room full of gentlemen is something many of us can only dream about ;) . The reading set up a kind of resolution for me to buckle down to writing the myriad projects I have simmering on various back burners. I actually need an Aga to accommodate all those pots!
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About Me
- Jill Battson
- I am an internationally published poet, poetry activist and Poet Laureate Emeritus of Cobourg, Ontario. I was responsible for creating some of Canada's most innovative poetry events including Word Up on MuchMusic which spawned a CD with Virgin Records and an anthology with Key Porter. My first book, Hard Candy, was received to great acclaim and nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. I have written several plays and solo works, including How I learned to live with obsession as well as Ecce Homo and Hard Candy – enhanced monologues for dance and voice. I wrote the libretti for two short operas, Netsuke and Ashlike on the Cradle of the Wind, produced by Tapestry New Opera Works, and produced an electro acoustic sound art project, LinguaElastic, as part of the Canadian Music Centre’s New Music in New Places series. Dark Star Requiem, for which I wrote the libretto, premiered at Toronto’s Luminato Festival in June 2010. My third book of poems, Dark Star Requiem, was recently published by Folded & Gathered Press. The Ecstatic Torture of Gratitude, my fourth collection was published in the Fall by Guernica.