October 2023
It’s been too long, boys and girls, but I have real news!!
You are invited to the Toronto launch for my eighth book of poetry
at Flying Books,784 College Street West,
Wednesday, Oct 4th, from 6:30-8pm.
“Cathedral/Grove, Susan Glickman’s brilliant new collection, comes to terms with the question of legacy — what we leave behind as a species, as citizens, and as parents. Marked by the lucidity and precision she has been celebrated for, the poems encompass the monuments of Western civilization, a climate in decline, and the pandemic. The title is inspired by the fire that ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in 2019, destroying the wooden roof-frame known as La Forêt; it also alludes to ‘Cathedral Grove,’ otherwise known as MacMillan Provincial Park, one of the last old growth stands on Vancouver Island. In poems of praise and lament for our fractured world — ‘Everything is becoming more itself / or something else,’ she writes — Glickman has tapped into a magnificent vein of lyric richness.” – from the publishers.
Two other Signal Editions authors will be launching at the same time:
Joe Fiorito and Yoyo Comay.
November 2022
I keep forgetting to post stuff here; goodness knows how many noteworthy events and publications I have forgotten to promote! But on November 23rd I was part of a lovely book launch for Artful Flight with other Porcupine’s Quill authors. Here’s a picture of us I was supposed to post BEFORE the event.
March 2022
Once again, I was lucky enough to be part of Family Literacy Day at the Montreal Children’s Hospital: a very cool bilingual event held annually to entertain their patients! I made two videos – one in English and one in French – of me reading an excerpt about dogs from my middle-grade chapter books Bernadette in the Doghouse/ Élizabeth dans le Pétrin, and also added advice about how to use the craft activities assembled by the hospital team under Lynn Kiraly.
February 2022
Artful Flight: Selected Essays 1985-2019 is coming out this month from The Porcupine’s Quill! So grateful for their interest in belles-lettres even during the pandemic! I cannot imagine a better cover than the beautiful one designed by Tim Inkster, and there are equally delightful illustrations inside the book.
September 2021
On September 18th, the Arcady Ensemble under the direction of Ronald Beckett performed his setting of my poem “First Silver, Then Invisible” in both English and French at their autumn concert.
January 2021
On January 26, I was lucky enough to be part of Family Literacy Day at the Montreal Children’s Hospital: a very cool bilingual event held annually to entertain their patients! I made two videos – one in English and one in French – of me reading an excerpt about dogs from my middle-grade chapter books Bernadette in the Doghouse/ Élizabeth dans le Pétrin, and my own dog, Toby, was kind enough to assist. Here is a picture of Toby to brighten your day.
August 2020
I am delighted to announce that I have a book of selected essays coming out with The Porcupine’s Quill in 2021!
This would be a tremendous privilege at any time but is even more so now, during the Covid pandemic, when so many in the arts have no outlet for their work. I am hugely grateful, as always, for the tireless support and optimism of small Canadian presses!
February 2020
“Survival Kit: Drawings and Poems” was published in The New Quarterly 153. Very thrilled to have these prose poems with accompanying drawings published with so many other wonderful writers in such a beautiful journal.
January 2020
On January 16th, Susan read from What We Carry at the Third Thursday Reading Series in Cobourg, Ontario.
November 2019
WEST COAST POETRY TOUR sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets and The Writers Union of Canada
Susan read at the Salt Spring Island Library in Ganges on Tuesday November 26; at the Alberni Valley Words on Fire in Port Alberni on November 28; and at Planet Earth Poetry in Victoria on November 29th. It was wonderful to revisit the west coast and see so many friends, old and new.
October 2019
On October 27th at 4:00, Susan read poetry at Stella’s Lunchbox, a charming cafe at 145 Lauder Avenue, Toronto.
Between October 9th and 11th, Susan did five readings at the Festival international de la poésie in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. An absolutely amazing annual affair, with poets from all around the world! So much fun, and highly recommended.
Translation alert! The Discovery of Flight will be coming out soon in Macedonia! Here is the beautiful cover:
September 2019
On September 21 at 5:00 in the afternoon, Susan joined James Arthur, her poetry twin this season, and Darren Bifford, for a reading at the Plan 99 Series held at the Manx Pub, 370 Elgin Street, in Ottawa, with delightful host David O’Meara.
On September 22 at 12:15, Susan signed her new poetry book, What We Carry, at the AELQ booth @Word On the Street at Toronto’s Harbourfront. Between 1 and 2 pm, she was at the Inanna booth talking about her YA novel, The Discovery of Flight.
August 2019
On August 26th, Susan read with Signal Editions launch-mate James Arthur at The Common, Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen St W, Toronto, at 7:00 pm. Lovely setting, wine, and refreshments.
July 2019
Just FYI, Susan has a show of her paintings hanging at Dave’s Bistro at 730 St Clair Ave W, Toronto, until Labour Day. Here’s a piece based on a poem of Leonard Cohen’s. See if you can guess which one!
May 2019
Susan participated in an International Festival of Authors event at Harbourfront on May 29th. Host Nora Gold moderated a panel of authors on the topic “When Women Write.” Other panelists were C. Fong Hsiung, Tehmina Khan, and Loren Edizel.
April 2019
Busy month with lots of readings from the new book of poetry, What We Carry, coming out from Signal Editions! The official group launch for all
spring titles was in Toronto at the Monarch Tavern on April 24th at 7:00 pm and in Montreal at Drawn and Quarterly on April 26th at 7:00 pm. The other poet was James Arthur, reading from The Suicide’s Son, and Lesley Trites read from her translation of Aphelia, a novel by Mikella Nicol. In Toronto, David Homel joined them, reading from his new novel, The Teardown.
In Toronto, Susan also read at Pivot on April 11th, and at The Art Bar on April 23rd.
Feb 2019
Susan signed and gave away 25 copies of The Discovery of Flight at the Literary Press Group booth at the Ontario Library Association Super-Conference on February 1. It is always so much fun to meet librarians!
NEW BOOK ALERT!!! NEW BOOK ALERT!!! NEW BOOK ALERT!!!
Susan has a new collection of poetry, What We Carry, coming out from Signal Editions in April 2019. This will be her seventh book of poetry with Signal and her fifteenth book overall! Genius designer David Drummond has worked his magic again with this cover.
November 2018
Susan was interviewed about her YA novel The Discovery of Flight on “Howl”, Valentine Assenzo’s literary program on CIUT radio (89.5 FM) at 10 pm, Tuesday November 27. Here’s the link:
http://www.ciut.fm/shows-2/spoken-word/howl
October 2018
Susan participated in a panel discussion titled “We Need Diverse Books” at the Ottawa Public Library’s “Teen Fest” on Saturday October 27. Fellow panelists were Tiffany D. Jackson and Star Spider.
On October 2nd at 10:00 am, Susan was interviewed about The Discovery of Flight on “All My Books” – a wonderful show hosted by Jacky Tuinstra Harrison on CJRU radio (1280 AM). Here is the link:
https://soundcloud.com/scopeatryerson/all-my-books-the-discovery-of-flight-by-susan-glickman
September 2018
Susan read from her new YA novel, The Discovery of Flight, at the “Teen Spirit” Stage at The Word on the Street, Toronto’s outdoor book festival, held at Harbourfront on Sunday, September 23rd.
June 2018
Composer Ronald Beckett set Susan’s extinction sonnets as choral songs performed at the Arcady Ensemble‘s summer concert on June 9th. So thrilling! The same poems also came out in the July/August “Summer Reading” issue of The Walrus Magazine.
May 2018
The Discovery of Flight, Susan’s new YA novel (and 14th book) was launched with Inanna’s spring list at The Women’s Art Association of Canada in Toronto on the evening of May 3rd. Please admire this gorgeous cover!
The CBC is looking forward to reading it! http://www.cbc.ca/books/10-canadian-young-adult-titles-to-watch-for-in-the-first-half-of-2018-1.4515417
February 2018
Susan participated in a tribute to the late poet Don Coles at the Free Times Cafe on Friday, February 16th. Other readers include Michael Redhill, Richard Sanger, Steven Heighton, David O’Meara, Laura Lush, and Al Moritz. Robyn Sarah participated by video.
October 2017
On October 1st at 3:30, Susan participated in the launch of the Guernica anthology, The Heart is Improvisational, edited by Carol Lipszyc, at the Supermarket in Toronto.
Ronald Beckett, resident composer of The Arcady Ensemble, set Susan’s poem “The Woman beside the Lake Is Reading” to music. It was sung beautifully by Nicole Dubinsky – accompanied by piano, cello, flute and electronic keyboard – on Saturday October 14th as part of the “Voices of Autumn” concert in Brantford, Ontario.
Here is the link to Ron’s wonderful composition:
https://soundcloud.com/ronald-beckett/the-woman-beside-the-lake
July 2017
Susan spent this month doing the illustrations for The Discovery of Flight, a YA novel coming out in Spring 2018 from Inanna! Here is a sample.
IF THERE SEEM TO BE FEWER EVENTS POSTED HERE THAN THERE USED TO BE, this is because Susan has been a full-time student at The Art Centre at Central Technical School in Toronto since September 2015! This is her first attempt to combine her literary and artistic pursuits.
April 2017
On April 22nd, Susan gave a talk about the poetry of Primo Levi and Paul Celan at Congregation Darchei Noam in Toronto.
February 2017
Just joined SOCAN because composer Ronald Beckett (the primary composer for the Arcady Ensemble) set one of my poems to music to be sung by Nicole Dubinsky. Honestly, this is one of the most exciting things to have ever happened to me!
December 2016
Susan was interviewed by Len Pearl about Esther Brandeau, the protagonist of her novel The Tale-Teller, for a film about the history of the Jews in Canada. Will update when I have further information.
November 2016
On Saturday, November 5th, Susan participated in a panel discussion about murder mysteries at the Wild Writers Festival in Waterloo, Ontario.
April 2016
On April 4th, for International Poetry Month, Susan joined Eva Tihanyi, Andrea Thompson, and Patricia Kenney at a reading at beautiful Niagara College in Niagara on the Lake.
March 2016
On Wednesday March 30th, Susan competed in – but sadly, did not win – the 8th Annual BATTLE OF THE BARDS presented by IFOA Weekly at the Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto.
February 2016
On February 21, Susan read from her latest novel, Safe as Houses, at the Junction Reads series at the Magic Oven in Toronto. Other readers were Jess Taylor, Jean-Marc Ah Sen, and Susanne Alyssa Andrews.
December 2015
Mercredi le 2 décembre, Susan a assisté au Salon de Livre de Toronto à la Bibliothèque de référence de Toronto pour signer Les Aventures étranges et surprenantes d’Esther Brandeau et la série jeunesse d’Élisabeth.
Samedi le 5 décembre est diffusée un entrevue avec Susan pendant une émission spéciale Salon du livre.
The last of the Lunch Bunch trilogy — Élisabeth à la rescousse — is now available in French from les éditions du Boréal!
November 2015
On Sunday November 1st, Susan participated in the members’ book fair at Congregation Darchei Noam. Other readers were Marsha Barber, Gail Benick, Renate Krakauer, and Sylvia Izzo Hunter.
On Wednesday November 4th, Susan read with Andrea Thompson and Safia Fazlul at the Wonderful Women Writers series run by Nora Gold at OISE.
On November 17th, Susan read with Robert Wiersma and Gloria Ferris at Wordsworth Books in Waterloo, Ontario. A certain quantity of alcohol was consumed, but we’re not saying how much. What happens in Waterloo stays in Waterloo.
October 2015
Elisabeth dans le Pétrin — the French version of Bernadette in the Doghouse by Christiane Duchesnes — was nominated for a Governor General’s award in translation. It didn’t win but still, just being nominated was thrilling.
On Saturday October 17th, Susan had a book table at The Wychwood Barns Farmers Market, named the city’s best farmer’s market by NOW magazine. Buy local and organic literature!
On Wednesday October 22nd, Susan participated in Catherine Owen’s book tour for The Other 23 & a Half Hours talking about the importance, for a writer, of reviewing other people’s work.
On Sunday October 24th, Susan moderated a lively panel discussion about mystery novels with Danish novelist Sara Blaedel, Ovidia Yu from Singapore, and two Catalan authors, Marc Pastor, and Teresa Solana, at the International Festival of Authors.
September 2015
Wednesday Sept. 9th
BOOK LAUNCH for SAFE AS HOUSES
at TYPE BOOKS, 883 Queen St.W.
7-9 pm.
On Sunday Sept. 27, Susan participated in a panel discussion about crime fiction with fellow authors Dietrich Kalteis, Ian Hamilton, and Giles Blunt at the WORD ON THE STREET. The ever-affable Steven Beattie moderated.
August 2015
Susan’s contemporary Toronto novel that is sort-of-a-murder-mystery
aka
Safe as Houses
is available now from Cormorant Books!!!
(and of course from your favourite independent bookstore)
May 2015
On May 2nd, Susan played bookseller for the day during AUTHORS FOR INDIES at Another Story Bookshop on Roncesvalles.
April 2015
Susan participated in The School of Continuing Studies instructor and student reading series, The Platform, with three former students: Bianca Marais, Thomas Vogl, and Ibukin Aisha Yusuf, on April 16th, at the Black Swan Tavern in Toronto.
March 2015
This yummy chapbook just came out.
February 2015
Elisabeth dans le Pétrin est arrivé de Boreal! Quite charming that “Bernadette in the Doghouse” translates to “Elizabeth in the Yeast-Trough” — but hey, that’s what makes translation the wonderful and mysterious enterprise it is.
January 2015
Susan read poetry at the Plasticine series, January 18th at Pauper’s Pub, in Toronto.
Susan read poetry at the Art Bar series, January 20th, at The Black Swan Tavern.
December 2014
Susan participated in a local bookfair at the Wychwood Barns Saturday December 6.
October 2014
Elisabeth et le Super Midi Club est arrivé de Boréal!
August 2014
NEW BOOK ALERT! NEW BOOK ALERT! NEW BOOK ALERT!
Safe as Houses, a mystery set in Toronto exploring the notion of personal security, will be coming out from Cormorant books in the spring of 2015.
July 2014:
Susan was the judge for the 2014 “Milton Acorn Poetry Prize” for the province of Prince Edward Island.
May 2014:
Susan is delighted to announce that the wonderful Québec press, Les Éditions du Boréal, publishers of Les Aventures étranges et surprenantes d’Esther Brandeau, moussaillon (the French translation of The Tale-Teller) will also be translating her juvenile trilogy, Bernadette and the Lunch Bunch, Bernadette in the Dog House, and Bernadette to the Rescue.
February 2014
Susan is delighted to announce that she is included in the 5th edition of the Oxford anthology of Canadian poetry edited by Gary Geddes, 70 Canadian Poets, due out this month .
January 2014
Les aventures étranges et surprenantes d’Esther Brandeau, moussaillon, the French translation of The Tale-Teller by the wonderful Christiane Duchesne, is now out from Les Éditions du Boréal! Susan had three amazing days in Montreal and Quebec city promoting the book to the media and to booksellers, who graciously forgave her rusty French and opened their hearts to Esther Brandeau.
December 2013:
Closing activities for the inaugural “One Book” program of the Vaughan Public Library System took place on December 8th at the Bathurst Clark Resource Library. Susan talked about the genesis and writing of The Tale-Teller and hot chocolate was served to an enthusiastic audience.
November 2013:
The Tale-Teller has been chosen to be the “One Book” read by the Vaughan Public Libraries! It will be the first time this library system has tried out the one book program. What an honour! They will be blogging about the book throughout the month of November at https://www.vaughanpl.info/leisure/?p=15780
September-October 2013:
Susan did a reading tour of the Maritime Provinces in company with the wonderful poet Julie Bruck as follows:
Sept. 26th: 7:30 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge, Main Building, University of Prince Edward Island in Charlottetown
Sept. 30: 7 pm Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Oct. 1: St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia
Oct. 3: 1-2:30 pm Mt. Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick
Oct. 5-6: University of New Brunswick Poetry Festival in Fredericton
NEWS FLASH!!!
SUSAN is delighted to announce that Les Éditions du Boréal will be publishing a French translation of her novel, The Tale-Teller!
June 2013
At 2:00 in the afternoon on Saturday, June 15th, Susan participated in “The Elegy Roadshow,” reading poetry with Tanis MacDonald and Margaret Christakos in Ruth Roach Pearson’s beautiful backyard in High Park, Toronto.
May 2013
On the evening of Thursday, May 30, Susan was the featured author at the Literary Levee fundraiser organized by the Atid Chapter of Canadian Hadassah-WIZO. She talked about the research and writing of The Tale-Teller.
April 2013
On Saturday, April 6th at 1:30 pm, Susan read from The Smooth Yarrow at the annual Richmond Hill Library Poetry Gala.
On Sunday, April 7th at 7:30pm, Susan read from The Tale-Teller at the closing night cabaret at the GritLit Festival in Hamilton with Allison Baggio (In the Body), Mark Leslie (Haunted Hamilton), Moez Surani (Floating Life), Matthew Tierney (Probably Inevitable) and live music from multi-talented Gary Barwin and friends.
On Friday April 12 Susan gave a writing workshop at the Wellington Public Library as part of the Prince Edward County Authors Festival; on Saturday she gave a reading from The Tale-Teller and participated in a panel discussion on fiction with a great audience at the festival in the beautiful Books & Company store, in beautiful downtown Picton, Ontario.
March 2013
Susan read from The Smooth Yarrow at the Ottawa VERSeFest with Stephen Price and Barbara Langhorst in the “Plan 99” event on Saturday, March 16th at 4 pm at the Mercury Lounge, 56 Byward Market Square.
February 2013
Susan gave a talk about the writing of The Tale-Teller at 7 pm at the Barbara Frum Library, Toronto.
January 2013
On January 31, Susan opened the St John’s Catholic School READATHON by making presentations to the students at two different assemblies, the first for kindergarten to grade 3, the second for grades 4-8.
December 2012
Friday December 7, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, Glickman was one of many Susans (Sues, Suzies, Suzannes, Sioux, Susannahs) performing at the Toronto launch of Desperately Seeking Susans at the Supermarket Restaurant and Bar in Kensington Market, Toronto.
November 2012
On Thursday November 8 at 7:00 pm, Susan read from The Smooth Yarrow at Drawn & Quarterly bookstore in Montreal with two other Signal Editions poets: Nyla Matuk and Pierre Nepveu (translated by Don Winkler).
Tuesday November 20 at 8 pm, Susan read from both her new books, The Smooth Yarrow and The Tale-Teller, at the Thrive reading series in Kingston, Ontario. Her son, Jesse Klein, opened for her with guitar improvisations.
Monday November 26 at 6:30pm, Susan read from The Tale-Teller and participated in a panel discussion with Cary Fagan, author of My Life Among the Apes, and Dave Margoshes, author of A Book of Great Worth, at the Jewish Book Fair in Vancouver.
On Tuesday November 27th Susan gave a presentation on The Tale-Teller to grades 8-9 from three Vancouver schools.
On Thursday November 2, Susan gave a plenary presentation on the writer’s life and three poetry writing workshops to grades 4 and 5 from three Vancouver area schools.
Then at 6:30 pm, Susan read from The Smooth Yarrow and participated in a panel discussion about poetry with Rhea Tregebov, author of All Souls, and Isa Milman, author of Something Small to Carry Home at the Jewish Book Fair.
On Friday November 30, Susan read from both The Smooth Yarrow and The Tale-Teller to students at Grant McEwan University in Edmonton.
October 2012
Susan read from The Tale-Teller at Type Books at 883 Queen Street West in Toronto on Tuesday October 23 at 7:00 p.m, with authors Missy Marston, author of The Love Monster and Mark Frutkin, author of A Message for the Emperor.
On October 30, Susan participated in a marathon reading from 7:30-9:30 pm to celebrate The Toronto Women’s Bookstore at 73 Harbord Street, which, sadly, is about to close.
September 2012
The Tale-Teller comes out!
The official launch was held on September 20th, at the beautiful Nicholas Hoare bookshop, 45 Front Street East in Toronto, from 6-8 pm.
Susan read from the “Lunch Bunch” books at the children’s area of the wonderful Eden Mills Festival on Sunday, September 16.
On Friday September 21, CFRC 101.9fm’s “Finding a Voice” showcased the forthcoming anthology Desperately Seeking Susan, which includes this Susan’s work, among other online from 4-5 pm edt at www.cfrc.ca. Hear it on: http://findingavoiceoncfrcfm.wordpress.com/
Susan signed The Tale-Teller at the Cormorant Booth at Word on the Street, at noon on Sunday, September 23rd.
August 2012
Susan read at The Art Bar. (Worried that Toronto audiences may be a tad tired of hearing my poems…
July 2012
Susan read poetry at Pivot at the Press Club on May 11th, as a former Montrealer, with current Montrealers Stephanie Bolster and Darren Bifford.
June 2012
A couple of poems from The Smooth Yarrow and photo of the author appeared in the Montreal Gazette June 16.
May 2012
Very busy month for SG, what with
a) Launching The Smooth Yarrow at the Wychwood Community Gallery on May 10th, 7-10 pm, SO much fun, so many friendly faces, and an amazing cake in the shape of a pile of books, courtesy of the sweet and generous Kelly Peterson.
Recent Comments