WRITING

I am a writer who has been most at home in the other-worldliness of poetry… but now I’m starting to see some of the delights of writing fiction. More news on that coming…

The good folks at Gap Riot published a chapbook a while back and I’m still very excited to be part of their publishing program. It’s working out some things around radio, poetics, and the patent office: “I’ll Learn to Listen / At the Trailing Edge of the World.” 

Here is what the publishers had to said about it: “This chapbook by our season seven token dude, Halifax-based poet, scholar, and all-around badass Bart Vautour, is—as his epigraph insists—a conversation between the poet and the patent office. Vautour’s poetry here intervenes in thoughtful, funny, and innovative ways into the discourses of intellectual property, political responsibility, and how we take “credit” for what is “ours” in experimental poetry. Two parts vispo, one part instruction manual, this cheeky little chapbook assembles to become an important tract on listening, writing, and bullshit detection in our current political and poetic climate. It’s so good, so thoughtful, so endearing, and so beautiful, it made us go okayfiiiiine, we’ll publish another guy.”

I have a collection, The Truth About Facts, published with Invisible Books. The collection was on the long list for The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, which  recognizes a first book of poetry published by a Canadian.