While Hollywood prepares for The Manson Girls this year, a film that stars Canada’s own (Peterborough no less) Estella Warren (Planet of the Apes 2001) and the porn industry’s Ron Jeremy, the dearth of good Manson Girl poetry continues to plague our fair planet. Before it becomes a straight to Netflix film, it was in →
On April 26th, Steel Bananas and friends celebrated the launch of Daniel Scott Tysdal’s Dear Adolf at the Ossington in Toronto. It was an amazing night of readings by Stewart Cole, Jim Johnstone, and Daniel Tysdal, with music by Hemingway (James Harris) until the early morning! Thanks to Val for the photos! To see more →
We’re delighted to announce a new addition to Steel Bananas: Anna Veprinska! Anna Veprinska is a poet who is currently pursuing her PhD in English at York University, researching empathy in poetry. Her writing and photography can be found in various Canadian and British publications. She also plays the mandolin in the Toronto Mandolin Orchestra. Anna is taking on →
(Above) SB’S Karen Correia Da Silva writing free poems on the street in East Van. →
SB’S Karen Correia Da Silva will be performing in East Van tonight as part of HELLRAISER II at the Rio Theatre and Independent Art House: a collective display of the Vancouver art scene’s vitality, and a commitment to keeping independent art venues and theatres in our communities. A Fundraiser for the Rio Theatre and in support →
Join Steel Bananas and friends for the launch party for Daniel Scott Tysdal’s latest book of fiction and colour photography, Dear Adolf. Daniel will be reading from the book and speaking about the process of creating such a singular artefact! Joining us as special guest readers for the evening will be Jim Johnstone, author of Sunday, →
For a sneak peek of Daniel Tysdal’s latest book of fiction & photography, Dear Adolf (SB Publications), head out to the official University of Toronto reading at Doris McCarthy Gallery, UTSC. Stewart Cole will also be reading from Sirens (Cactus Press)! Our official Steel Bananas bash for Dear Adolf is scheduled for late April in →
Ed Broadbent’s recent outburst against NDP leadership front-runner, Montreal MP Thomas Mulcair, has certainly generated considerable media attention for the Party Patriarch. However, as one could easily surmise, it hasn’t been – for the most part – the good kind. Reaction to his interview with the Globe and Mail’s Daniel Leblanc, as well as his →
We have the pleasure to announce that Daniel Scott Tysdal’s Dear Adolf is this season’s first offering from Steel Bananas Publications, the Steel Bananas Art Collective’s new small press. The book was edited and designed by SB’s Karen Correia Da Silva, and copy edited by SB’s Ted Killin. ABOUT DEAR ADOLF: In the tension between bearing →
Within the next couple of weeks, Steel Bananas will realease four new chapbooks, so we’re busy bees right now! Here’s a sample of our communal work soundtrack, perfect for bookmaking: →
We’ve been away for the holidays, but hard at work behind the scenes on buses and airplanes preparing this season’s chapbooks for production, along with our forthcoming print issue on the theme of austerity. In the meantime, we will be posting some things we like here on the blog, along with things we’re getting up →
We just released the Winter 2011-2012 catalogue for SB Publications. This season’s offerings include a text & photographic work from ReLit award winning poet Daniel Scott Tysdal, and a mixed media art book from Canadian culture jammer ýta. From within the art collective, we’re releasing a multimedia text and performance work from Karen Correia Da →
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 collaboration with the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) SB’s Associate Creative Director, Curran Folkers, published a literary interpretation of Canadian artist Jennie Suddick’s installation Nothing of Harm to Dread. Suddick is graduate of OCADU and York University, the artist-in-residence at Open Studio, Toronto, and recently returned from Bee-line to Berlin: The Woodn’t →
Hello all, it’s Karen. The last few weeks have been full of extreme change on the SB front, as I just moved to Vancouver, and my partner in crime, Curran, just moved out to Fredericton, leaving the King and Ted to hold down the fort in Toronto. SB started as a Toronto-centric project, but even →