November 19, 2008
Thanks to everyone who came out to the second installment of Fascination Street. We couldn't think of a better crowd to debut Packanimal to.
Liz's next reading is coming up in early December at Nik Beat's Poetic Justice. Will it be a Packanimal performance? You'll have to check back to find out...
NEWS ARCHIVES:
November 1, 2008 - EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT
On Tuesday, November 18 marc duboisson and Liz Worth will be performing as PACKANIMAL, a new noise/spoken word project !
It'll be happening at the next installment of Fascination Street at Augusta House in Kensington Market. See you there...
October 20, 2008
Liz will be selling copies of her new micro-novel 11:11 this weekend at Canzine, Canada's largest zine fair and festival of alternative culture. Come by and say hi...
When: Sunday, October 26, 2008
Where: The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. West (Queen just East of
Dufferin)
Toronto
1pm - 7pm
$5 at the door gets you access to hundreds of zines, all-day short film screenings, and other cool stuff...www.brokenpencil.com
And...
Come out on to Augusta House on November 18 for another installment of Fascination Street! Liz will be performing with marc duboisson, making their debut as the spoken-word-noise-duo PACK ANIMAL. More details to come!
October 1, 2008
TUNE IN ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7 TO CIUT 89.5! Liz will be on Nik Beat's HOWL talking about Eleven: Eleven. And yes, you can listen online. Follow this link, click on HOWL, and press play: http://www.ciut.fm/schedule.php
September 29, 2008
Liz will be interviewed live on Hamilton's CFMU Tuesday, September 30 - don't miss it!
Bruce Farley Mowat, host of e-mole radio, will be talking to Liz about her new book Eleven: Eleven. Tune it at 6:35 to listen in!
September 22, 2008
A splatter of the surreal:
Liz Worth’s Eleven: Eleven out now on Trainwreck Press
I
am forgetting my name and am wearing incantations. Spirit animals. I go
by all of them and none of them. These titles blur together like a
collective scream…
This is a story built out of
a collage. Part poetry, part surrealist fiction, Eleven: Eleven is
an exciting new work that marks Liz Worth as an emerging voice on the
experimental landscape. Written during a stretch of unemployment in the
spring of 2008, this micro-novel pieces together a narrative that speaks
through a fragmented consciousness of abstract poetics, claustrophobic
fantasies, and scraps of torrid memories salvaged from Worth’s
personal journals.
The day after she sees my suicide note she’s clinging to my door, hair a shiny coat, nails built out of the last lunar eclipse…
Eleven: Eleven doesn’t
blur the lines between fact and fiction – instead it exposes the
shades of gray that we all live in. Showing off traces of occult
influence, instability, and self-destruction, this micro-novel tells the
story of an anonymous narrator and her infatuation with her own demise
while underlining the subjectivity of our own histories and actions.
… All I’m really doing is walking through these numbers, adding, subtracting the whorls of minutes, seeking the alchemy of time…
Published
in September 2008 by Trainwreck Press, Eleven:
Eleven is now here for your cult consumption: www.ditchpoetry.com/trainwreckpress.htm
To
request a review copy or arrange an interview with Liz Worth, please
email lizworth@gmail.com
About
Trainwreck Press and ditch, poetry:
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Past News...
September 2, 2008
COMING SOON - Eleven : Eleven out on Trainwreck Press! More details to come...
August 8, 2008
"We’ve been dreaming of a ground that runs like liquid, blurring golden browns and blackness thick as tar, all gravel-specked splashes of gray rushing past our eyes and whispering not here, now here, nowhere. We don’t know where we’re going or how we’ll get there just as long as it’s away away away and wherever it is we’ll lean into it.
"Reality is only numeric codes. Numbers are the architects of our cycles and trigger points, trigger fingers. I can’t escape Masonic numbers. 11:11 is an old hinge, threatening to come undone altogether. My ascension into this time, twice a day, is an equal descent into dissected frequencies I would rather not have gouging at my brain.
"My life is becoming a textural oblivion." (Copyright Liz Worth, 2008)
The above excerpt is taken from a piece I wrote this spring called "Eleven : Eleven." It's a story that combines poetry and experimentation. While I'm floating it out there for potential publication, I'm working on what I hope will become my first full-length experimental novel, currently titled T.
Expect to see an excerpt from Trash(ed), another novel I've been working on off and on for the past four years. Well, okay, I'll be honest - I've had so many other projects in the works that my novel has often been neglected. I'm open to suggestions on self-discipline when it comes to writing fiction. Trash(ed) got its beginnings as an award-winning short story that I wrote when I was 22; I don't doubt that it can fulfill its potential.
Happy 08/08/08.
August 2, 2008
This Monday, August 4, I will be featured in a radio documentary on CBC's Outfront. The show is about parents' record collections, and I was interviewed about an experience involving my mom's records and an infamous Toronto punk guitarist that took place while I was working on my book. Tune in at noon to CBC Radio One to hear it.
June 19, 2008
The past is the new present for Generation Y
I've had a lot of conversations over the past year in regards to the nostalgia that my generation has for previous eras - something that I am oh-so guilty of. At first I wanted to discuss it from the perspective of what's happened in previous eras, but I wasn't getting the answers I needed. I realized I had to talk someone like myself who's actually caught up in the past. Here's my attempt to shed some light on the subject:
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/445401
May 5, 2008
Thanks to everyone who came out to Fascination Street on April 29. It was a great start to a reading series that I'm very excited to be a part of. Readers Philip Cairns, Brett Alexander Savory (and Don Bassingwaithe), MMad Poet Blake Satyr, Mindi St. Amand, Hugh Oliver, Leigh Beadon, and Kristen McGregor (who was also an amazing host), and Heather Morgan were all fantastic.
I'm going to be talking to Augusta House to see if they will welcome us back in June to do it all over again. Unfortunately, Sandra Kasturi wasn't able to make it out the first time around but we're going to be getting her up on that stage sooner than later. Keep checking in for details - they'll be coming soon!
May 3, 2008
**TREAT ME LIKE DIRT OUT ON BONGO BEAT IN 2008.**
Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry exciting, no?
April 14, 2008
COME DOWN TO FASCINATION STREET ON APRIL 29!
Fascination Street is the place to find spoken word on the fringe. It's a new reading series that I've started up with my good friend Mindi St. Amand. We just didn't feel that a lot of the spoken word nights we were going to around Toronto were delivering the kind of performances we were looking for. So we decided to start our own. Mindi and I will both be reading on April 29, and we'll be joined by some great writers, including:
LEIGH BEADON, DEMIAN CARYNNYK, SANDRA KASTURI, KRISTEN McGREGOR, HUGH OLIVER, AND BRETT ALEXANDER SAVORY
This first installment will be happening at Augusta House in Kensington Market, right beside the Boat. The cost is PWYC and the doors open at 7:30, start time is 8-ish.
Any inquiries can be directed my way. Hope you can make it!
March 23, 2008:
So in some past life, I used to organize spoken word events around Toronto. I also used to be pretty committed to writing poetry (or word collages as I like to call them) and fiction.
But for various reasons, I got out of all that for quite a while. It made sense at the time and I think it has given me a lot of time to retool my ideas of what I want to be writing and how I want to be writing.
Recently, I had some poems published by ditch, which publishes "the poetry that matters." Check it out here and stay tuned for more: www.ditchpoetry.com/lizworth.htm