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OmniGothic NeoFuturist Poets
(That's Omnigoths for short.)
Meetings:
More regular and innocuous than nuclear wind, we workshop poetry in groups of 3-8 people.
Group Lineage:
Disparate.Founded in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1996, out of remnants from Christopher Levenson's Carleton University Poetry 401.16 Course.
Past Projects:
- Canada Day Poetry Poster Series
- The book, Speak! Six OmniGothic NeoFuturists, available from Broken Jaw Press
Some Omnigoths past, and present but there's no accounting for:
Word
Wonder
- Sample poem: Fish is Brain Food
Lynne Alsford
- Find her. Buy the Beach Plum chapbook
- sample poem: Anu Rains
Aaron Mills
- last seen in TO
- sampler coming someday?
Alastair Larwill
- last spotted in PQ
- sample?
James Moran
- Not Virginia's Democrat, the former Director of Ottawa's Tree Reading Series, last seen at Bywords
- sample poem coming?
Jim Larwill
- Ottawa's 2003 rep for the national CBC Faceoff.
- Nab him and Buy the Eden chapbook
- Sample Poem: Meadow Villanelle
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Pearl Pirie
- last seen at www.pagehalffull.com and
- www.valleywritersguild.ca
- sample?
Rocco Paoletti
- anyone seen this man?
- sampler?
Stephany Willson
- TBA
- sample?
Wendy Brandts
- confirmed spotting in Ottawa
Associations:
- Vague and random by times.
- Tree Reading Series held at the Royal Oak II Pub by Ottawa U on alternate Tuesdays
- Sasquatch Reading Series held at the Royal Oak II by Ottawa U on alternate Sundays
- Bywords Literary Events Calendar
More Information:
For joining in on a Saturday afternoon workshop, email
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No army boots required.
(Data subject to change to actually make appearance of accuracy.)
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