University of Toronto Quarterly just published its annual critical and bibliographic survey of Letters in Canada — most recently for books published during 2009 — and mentioned Steel Bananas’ 2009 assemblage Gulch: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose as an unconventional anthology aiming to aggressively critique the perceived waning of affect and trend toward heteronomy in the post-millennium world. Andrew ...
Darryl Salach from The Toronto Quarterly recently interviewed me as part of the Toronto Poets: 5 Questions Series. Read the interview on The Toronto Quarterly Blog.
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed about SB and my design work for Tightrope Books by Open Book Toronto. Read the interview here.
Man! I guess I’m a bit behind on updating my blog with press and things. I’ve been busy. And sick. And lazy. I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Monica Heisey from She Does the City – a fashion and night life web publication based in Toronto – about Steel Bananas’ new salon series, The Artichoke Revue. Read ...
Along with Rabble Magazine and Rover Arts, GULCH has received a great review from Broken Pencil Magazine: Steel Bananas art collective has come a long way since it first started handing out bananas at “Canzine in late 2008. They’ve moved on to continually put out a monthly online issue, start a reading series, and to complete another feat with this ...
I was recently interviewed as part of the Maker Culture Podcast Series, discussing the love of the home-grown SB not-fot-profit and GULCH. Listen to episode six here. From the series: In this episode, we get our hands around all types of home brewed media—from books to music. What drives people to get out the ink and paper or turn up the ...
A recent review of GULCH in Rabble Magazine: “…the reliability of GULCH is the space it provides for new visions, new styles and new writers. — Samantha Sternberg“ Read the whole review here.
“And if you thought your second-year poststructuralist theory class would never take wing in the real world, GULCH aims to make you think again. Steel Bananas practises what amounts to a sort of guerrilla academia, mingling heady with hip.” I was recently interviewed by the Torontoist. Check out the article here.
Head out to newsstands nationwide to pick up the lastest issue (42) of Broken Pencil Magazine, with yours truly on the cover: