Night:
Pontiac Quarterly reading at the Drake
(See: Day)

Day:
Mexico's Copper Canyon
(See: Night)

The Royal Sarcophagus Society
Rue Morgue Radio
Polaris Music Prize
PEN Canada
Winged Victory
Daft Hands
Axis of Justice
Raw Shark Texts
Akumu

May 2008

NEW BOOK! AND IT’S ALIVE!

I am delighted to announce a new poetry chapbook: Alive! The SideShow Sonnets is a collection of (surprise!) 13 sonnets about some of my favourite people re-imagined as sideshow freaks. See the Tattoo Girl, the Strongman, the Geek and more! Each is beautifully illustrated by Gillian Holmes in classic circus banner style. Available in limited hand-bound zine format or very limited-edition hardcover.

Look for Alive! at the Royal Sarcophagus Society booth at the Toronto Small Press Book Fair.

• Saturday June 7 from 12 to 5pm
  New location: The Miles Nadal Jewish Centre (750 Spadina Avenue). FREE!

COMING SOON: GLOBAL METAL

Do you like metal? Do you like movies? Do you like me? Then go see the work I did on a wicked new documentary, Global Metal! The sequel to the massively successful Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey follows the spread of this underground subculture around the world to places like China, Israel and Brazil. I am proud to have been the researcher and script editor on this project and guarantee it will make you bang your head!

• Global Metal opens June 20 in Toronto and Vancouver / June 27 in Montreal.

READ LIISA's BOOK!

Still available for your bedside table, Nuit Blanche: Poems for Late Nights, edited by me. Just a few copies of the limited-edition anthology remain at Sarcophagus Store.

Liisa Ladouceur (that's me) is a word geek who loves writing and reading more than just about anything else in the world, save for perhaps dancing under a disco ball in the wee hours to AC/DC or Daft Punk.

I work as an arts reporter and music pundit -- you may have agreed/disagreed with what I've said on MuchMoreMusic and CBC Radio or written in the pages of Eye Weekly, Rue Morgue or the Toronto Sun. If you'd like to send hate mail about my views on Bon Jovi, Def Leppard or Pearl Jam, sorry -- that mailbag is full. But if you like poetry as much as pop culture, this is where to keep up with my creative writing projects and public appearances.

2008: Published Alive! The Sideshow Sonnets, illustrated by Gillian Holmes. “Sang” for 16,000 people on stage with Iron Maiden. (Go ahead – ask me how!) Completing my first full poetry chapbook, coming soon from a wonderful small press (stay tuned!)

2007:
Edited the poetry anthology Nuit Blanche: Poems for Late Nights, published by the Royal Sarcophagus Society Press. Became the Blood Spattered Guide to music for Rue Morgue Radio's weekly all-horror podcast.

2006:
Survived the apocalyptic 6/6/6 calendar date with a special reading at the Cameron House. Published in the Strong Words: Volume One Anthology. Designed a line of horrific T-shirts called Quoth the Raven. Learned to decipher Satanic scripty fonts co-writing narration, script editing and researching for heavy metal doc Global Metal. 

2004-2005: Sign Poetry
Poems and rants composed entirely of words photographed in public spaces, an obsession I pursued everywhere: airports, campsites, cemeteries and beyond. Toured across North America as part of the Perpetual Motion Roadshow and read at several Toronto series including Pontiac Quarterly and Indiepolitik. The sign poem "Give Me Liberty Village" was published in Ukula magazine; "Mount St. Helens" appeared on the2ndhand.com.

2003: Fortune Poems
100 bite-sized poems disguised as fortunes, served in cookie form at the inaugural Autumnal Cabinet of Wonders Soireé, presented by the The Royal Sarcophagus Society.

1990s: The Ninth Wave
In a previous life, I published 8 issues of a girlie goth zine called the Ninth Wave. Corset photos. Sisters of Mercy jokes. Creepy cookie recipes. Good times. Then the "internet" came and took all the fun out of gluing sparkly bats into mail orders.

Long letters, probing questions, deep thoughts to: liisa at therss.com.