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	<title>Vancouver Verse</title>
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		<title>Alien, Correspondent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure if it is my ignorance or his low profile (a combination of both?) but up until yesterday I hadn&#8217;t heard of Antony Di Nardo, a poet in his sixties who has published two books simultaneously this year: Alien Correspondent (Brick Books) and Soul on Standby (Exile Editions.) Perhaps as a poet laureate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/alien-correspondent/</link>
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		<title>Renee Norman&#8217;s Book Launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Renee Norman is launching her new book on June 17th at the Jewish Community Centre  art gallery at 4pm. 950 West 41st. There will refreshments and special guests.
In this third collection of poetry, Renee Norman inhabits Martha Quest,   Doris Lessing’s autobiographical protagonist from her Martha Quest  series of novels, like a spirit, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/renee-normans-book-launch/</link>
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If I had a billion dollars I&#8217;d buy you a sound canon.
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		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/254/</link>
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		<title>What important Vancouver book would you like to see brought back into print?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What important Vancouver book would you like to see brought back into print?
I asked that question a little over a week ago and here is a preliminary list. I know some of these books are still in print or have recently been brought back into print but I included them anyway since they have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/what-important-vancouver-book-would-you-like-to-see-brought-back-into-print/</link>
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		<title>On Women’s Gold and Equality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this case a picture is better than a poem.
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		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/on-women%e2%80%99s-gold-equality-and-the-ioc/</link>
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		<title>Vancouver Real Writers Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is the video from the finale of the Vancouver Real Writers Series. Please check out the wonderful writers or at 36:20 you can see me read &#8220;2010 Handbook for Entering Canada&#8221; followed by Al Purdy&#8217;s &#8220;Say the Names.&#8221;

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		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/vancouver-real-writers-series/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on Shane Koyczan, Poetry and the Opening Ceremonies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I declined to participate in the Olympics the most common question I was asked was “what does a Poet Laureate do?” I don’t get asked that question anymore. The question I am now being asked over and over again is what I thought of the Opening Ceremonies and in particular Shane Koyczan’s performance.
Shane is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/thoughts-on-shane-koyczan-poetry-and-the-opening-ceremonies/</link>
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		<title>2010 Handbook for Entering Canada</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Howard White
Are you bring­ing any fruits or veg­eta­bles into Canada?
Have you vis­ited a farm in the last 30 days?
Are you now or have you ever been a mem­ber of a group that dis­agreed with government?
Do you intend to ride the zip line?
Do you approve of prod­uct place­ment in movies?
Do you like my uniform?
Are you bring­ing into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/2010-handbook-for-entering-canada/</link>
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		<title>Notes on a World Class City: Why I have declined to participate in the Olympic Celebrations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read as a PDF
In the early 1950s when George Woodcock moved to Vancouver there were few fellow writers and virtually no publishers in the city. By 1994, the year in which Woodcock was awarded the Freedom of the City (Vancouver’s highest civic honour) our writing community had matured and our growing number of publishing houses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/notes-on-a-world-class-city-why-i-have-declined-to-participate-in-the-olympic-celebrations/</link>
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		<title>Girl From Ermita</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2007 Katherine Knight and Almerinda Travassos made a short documentary about Goh Poh Seng including a reading of “Girl From Ermita.” Enjoy.

Goh Poh Seng (Part 2/2) from Site Media inc on Vimeo.
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		<link>http://bradcran.com/vancouver_verse/girl-from-ermita/</link>
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