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RECENT PRESS "Poets 'are talking tough' and their words make a difference" By Joe Belanger, The London Free Press. March 5, 2022 https://lfpress.com/entertainment/local-arts/poets-are-talking-tough-and-their-words-make-a-difference Joe Belanger responds to A Near Memoir: New Poems! https://lfpress.com/entertainment/local-arts/poet-penn-kemp-celebrates-growing-up-in-london-in-new-book-of-verse. This article links "You There", a poem in the book, to my Luminous Entrance: a Sound Opera for Climate Change Action, onhttps://youtu.be/h9mS75iCw7Q?t=869. A lovely article by Chris Montanini: https://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/entertainment/books/latest-work-from-poet-penn-kemp-published-by-stratford-micropress-beliveau-books and https://www.thelondoner.ca/entertainment/books/latest-work-from-poet-penn-kemp-published-by-stratford-micropress-beliveau-books and in all the local papers from Sarnia to Woodstock and Paris March 6, 2021. The London Free Press has a marvellous article on line: https://lfpress.com/entertainment/local-arts/london-poet-penn-kemp-marks-womens-day-with-call-to-action. The video link to my reading the poem is up now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNC2sbZGp3c&t=6s.Joe Belanger responds to A Near Memoir: New Poems! https://lfpress.com/entertainment/local-arts/poet-penn-kemp-celebrates-growing-up-in-london-in-new-book-of-verse on the front page of YOU section. And https://lfpress.com/entertainment/books/new-books-by-london-area-authors-offer-variety-for-all-readers-tastes The London Free Press published this article on the front page of YOU section: https://lfpress.com/opinion/columnists/belanger-its-time-to-embrace-londons-poet-laureate-penn-kemp-and-all-artists. Imagine, a newspaper publishing new poems! and these four are so beautifully laid out with room for the poems to breathe! https://lfpress.com/entertainment/books/london-poet-helps-explore-identity-at-wordsfest. https://www.thelondoner.ca/entertainment/local-arts/poets-celebrate-nature-with-new-work https://miramichireader.ca/2020/02/river-revery-poems-penn-kemp/ Old but gold: http://poets.ca/2015/04/01/golden-beret-2015-penn-kemp/ “Night Orchestra”, Rampike 15, 2007, https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/rampike/vol15/iss1/ https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/rampike/vol15/iss1/2/ Siolence, my neologism: http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol6/no21/siolence.html http://poets.ca/publications/heartwood/ ON RIVER REVERY "Once more this poet gives her all. Few do it as well. No one does it better. While dedicating this book to her grandchildren, she could just as well dedicate River Revery to the planet, to which we owe our all. And need. Like Penn Kemp, as always." Bill Arnott, https://miramichireader.ca/2020/02/river-revery-poems-penn-kemp/ http://poets.ca/2020/01/23/penn-kemp/ Harold Rhenish has explored text from "River Revery" in intricate detail on two of his extraordinary blogs: https://okanaganokanogan.com/2018/12/03/reading-penn-kemp-and-the-world-the-role-of-poetry-in-civic-planning/ and https://okanaganokanogan.com/2019/02/13/repaired-post-towards-a-new-cartography-part-3-the-strength-of-oral-story-telling/ https://okanaganokanogan.com/2018/12/03/reading-penn-kemp-and-the-world-the-role-of-poetry-in-civic-planning/ ON LOCAL HEROES "This a work of intersectionality and varied technique, with a range of emotion from affection and humour to deep sorrow, its eclecticism bound together by overarching themes including home, death and transition, and memory." http://poets.ca/2020/01/23/local-heroes/ "Penn Kemp delivers sharp but affectionate insight into the character and circumstances of a half dozen notable Londoners with the sparkling wit and wordplay she is known for." --Allan Briesmaster, editor, poet, and publisher "Penn Kemp glories in the past and present heroes of her own Southwestern Ontario. Who could better 'story, restory, and restore' the 'Souwesto' than Penn? These poems exploit the human voice and vision in unpredictable but unforgettable ways." --Elizabeth Waterston, professor emeritus, author, and editor https://andreasgripp.blogspot.ca/2018/05/poets-laureate-will-not-put-you-to-sleep.html http://lfpress.com/entertainment/local-arts/poet-celebrates-londons-cultural-heroes-in-new-book REVIEW OF FOX HAUNTS Review by Alice Major. "Fox Haunts is a haunting brush with Fox’s vanishing tail. The human-animal connection is elusive, interstitial, “inner and outer, on / the verge.” And Kemp’s long career as a sound poet is apparent in the sonic delight of lines" http://poets.ca/2019/01/21/review-insomnia-bird-by-kelly-shepherd-fox-haunts-by-penn-kemp/ Review by Bill Arnott of Fox Haunts, Big Pond Rumours, Summer 2019: https://pennkemp.wordpress.com/2019/08/17/a-trickster-review-for-fox-haunts/. More reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39743870-fox-haunts. http://tuckmagazine.com/2019/01/11/fox-haunts-penn-kemp-review/. http://poets.ca/2018/08/10/review-fox-haunts-by-penn-kemp/ http://opusonereview.com/?p=4786 https://www.stanleyfefferman.com/blog/fox-haunts-by-penn-kemp-a-review-by-stanley-fefferman https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/19462534-fox-haunts-by-penn-kemp REVIEW OF THE DREAM LIFE OF TERESA HARRIS London Free Press. REVIEWS OF BARBARIC CULTURAL PRACTICE League of Canadian Poets. The Londoner. Quill and Quire. Catherine Owen. The Library of Pacific Tranquility. https://okunhill.wordpress.com/2018/02/10/poet-profile-penn-kemp-and-barbaric-cultural-practice/ Kites Without Strings A literary journey with Debbie Okun Hill https://canlit.ca/canlit_authors/penn-kemp/Barbaric Cultural Practice http://www.quillandquire.com/review/barbaric-cultural-practice/ https://crowgirl11.wordpress.com/2017/04/04/barbaric-cultural-practices-by-penn-kemp-quattro-books-2016/ |
REVIEW OF THE TRIUMPH OF TERESA HARRIS The Londoner. RECENT INTERVIEWS https://news.westernu.ca/2017/11/artist-class-making-town-gown-connections/ Playwrights Guild of Canada. The Library of Pacific Tranquility. The Rusty Toque. "I remember my own early discovery of and delight in language. As a child, I did not coddle my dolls. I sat them up and read the poems, stories and nursery rhymes my mother had read to me. The words she read would sink into the well of my hearing and become part of me; their rhythms would dance inside my body like northern lights. I ate up those words with a necessity as strong as hunger. Even at first hearing, the words were somehow familiar as if I recognized in them old friends. I remember swelling proudly with the power of words, in learning first to read and then actually to write, to put down the letters so that they made sense to anyone who could read." -Penn Kemp, The Rusty Toque interview with Kathryn Mockler |
