From Page ¥3 New this year, the program offers instruction trom ¢stab- lished focal figures like Michael Turner, Sharon Thesen, and Stan Persky. The first writer in residence earlier this vear was poct Daphne Marlatt. Torontonian Brian Fawcett follows bissett in the spring. bissett is expecting some writers ro want a gentle nudge and some to want more direct guidance. “Pm not an authority,” he says, “but EF can help.” bissere doesn’t believe outright criticism of other people's work is belpful; he prefers to tell them what sections he enjoved, and what he has found difficult to understand. bissett ran away from Halifax home, when he was 17, with his tirst boyfriend. He says he can’t quite remember if rumours of him joining the circus were true. At any rate, Vancouver was “as far as we could get.” he says, “we hitchhiked. So we kind of ran out of space.” It took a while for publishers to warm to bissett’s uncon- ventional poetic style. In the meantime, he and some friends self-published a magazine under the banner of blewointment press. “It was an apothecary cure for crabs,” he grins. His first book, published in 1966, was Fires in the Temple: The Jinx Ship and Other Trips. Bosstones bring the party @ The Mighty Mighty Bosstones at The Commodore, Sept. 20. The Bosstones, with The Gadgits and North Vancouver's Crowned King, delivered a flawless show that served as a tes- tament to their enduring pope! rity. Not content to be dis- tant celebrities, these boys creaie a party even the burliest bouncer can’t stop. The Bosstones had some mighty good words to say about Crowned King. — Elaine Covden @ Iron Maiden at The Pacific Coliseum, Sept. 20. A collection of Vancouver's devoted heavy metal heads joined forces to witness the last stop of Iron Maiden’s North American tour. The rotten smell of fear thickened the air inside the Pacific Coliseum as crowds raged to the many clas- ’ sies, “Fear of The Dark” fuelled the explosion of fireballs on stage. Bruce Dickinson glorified his youthful presence with forceful vocals and some pretty lofty jumps. A spectacular show. —Krista/Niki. & Sarah Harmer opening for Billy Bragg at The Vogue, Sunday, Oct. 1. Don’t get there late for ~: Billy Bragg’s show on Sunday — night or you'll be sorry. . Sarah Harmer, former lead - singer with Kingston, Ontario’s Weeping Tile, graces us with her presence as she . tours in support of her second solo effort You Were Here “kkkke. ~. Harmer initially released the new CD independently but buzz from performances led to her signing with Universal in Canada and Rounder in the States., . Advance word says that Harmer gives intensely poetic read- ings of her songs on stage. Not to be missed. — John Goodman Friday, September 29, 2000 — North Shore News - 23 ats in a nai The temple was the brain, he savs: “Ht was a time of tarbu- fence and great social change.” bissett’s style has become immediately identifiable. He writes in lower case letters (Cunless Pim shouting”), and uses phonetic spelling: “th” for “the,” “sew” for “so,” “xeellent.” “Its an art form.” he says, “E'm not writing an instruction manual on how to do something.” There was, of course, the lower-case precedent of ee cum- mings — and the observational musings of Gertrude Stein, bissett’s literary heroine. He also loves James Jovee. He tells me the story of his last visit to Dublin, where a bed and break- fast owner called Mis. O'Rourke told him, as she delivered tea, that Uhyses was wonderful but that “for sheer musicality” (here bissett assumes a Fenian accent), “you can't beat Finneqan’s Wake.” He is obviously takes with this scene, of ordinary people consumed with literature — living, as Mrs. O’ Rourke told him to do one morning over a breakfast tray, through lan- guage. The collective impression when first reading bissett’s words on the page can be of a foreign language wholly unrelated to English. Ics when you hear him read aloud that it begins to make sense. bissett describes himself as a “sound poet,” as much per- formance artist as scribe, and he writes the way he does “to : NEWS photo Sprout BOSTON'S Mighty Mighty Bosstones tear it up. GALAPAADS ie PfF SHOWTIMES Daily: Spm Addl Shows Sat & Sun: 1:15, 3:30pm ENGAGEMENY RDS OCT. 5! ALAS wrinit OF THe wee WOLVES SHOWTIMES Sat & Sun.: 2.15, 4:45pm SHOWTIMES Daily: 6, 8pm Add’t Shows Sat & Sun: 12pm ERCACEMENY EHDS OCT. 5! OPENING NEXT FRIDAY! 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Allinterested applicants must be interviewed by the program manager before October 31, 2000. Program cost: $5,250. For information or to book an interview, call 286-1911, ext. 3507 or 990-7863. Capitano College, Professional Film Studies Department 2056 Purcell Way, North Vancouver, BC avoid story,” to get people to focus on the words: the fan- guage, not the narrative. bissett’s latest tome, § feep abul char ak ws, is “A book about linguistics and naming and what's in a name,” he says. “It's about the body all covered with letters and meanings and the body not covered with letters and meanings.” He’s already nearing the end of his next anthology, petr among th towring boxes. He lives between Vancouver's West End and Toronto's Cabbagetown, but has “more of a writer's life” in Toronto: “I get up, E exercise, I get on the phone and do some business, I secialize..and then [ spend eight hours writing. I think it’s because my computer's there.” He can, theugh, “write anywhere.” He reads me his latest poem, one he wrote September 6 while he was listening to the other instructors talking at Capilano College. He says he likes the sounds of people’s voices. It’s written in a notebook (black, of course} the size of his knapsack. In a black felt tip pen. The poem has oranges in it. When he leaves he throws his arms around me in the mid- dle of the street, a big black scarecrow, and wonders will they take his transfer on the bus even though it ran out 15 minutes ago, and gathers up his remaining fruit and then he’s gone, swallowed by the steel machine that will ferry him off back to the city until the next time he emerges here, full of words and wisdom and laughter. of the North Shore This will be the. inaugural exhibition for City of North Vancouver's. newest -.Art’ : : Lonsdale Avenue. Avenue. Emerging artists: are... Grand Boulevard asked to create aw Yous medium,’ based'on. stories, . ‘memories ions Submission Deadline: November 177 200 15:5! March Connect 333 Chesterfield Avenue North Vancouver; BC V7M 3G For more. information ‘pl Po Conta Chetlucd ew