Rockabilly

The opening of the soundscape for Stuart Ian McKay's long poem "David," from his book "a cognate of prayer," published in November 2013 by Passwords Enterprises.

Opening for "David"

Written by David Eso, Matt Smith & Weyman Chan. 

Performed at Shelf Life Books in Calgary, Feb. 25th/2014, at the launch of the 5th annual Migratory Words anthology of Bow Valley writers.

Biographies:

David Eso’s work as scholar, poet, anthologist and impresario unites Canadian literary heritage with its impending renaissance. Appearances include CV2, Strangers in Paris, Canadian Literature, Arc, Freefall, Vallum, Under the Mulberry Tree, the Globe and Mail and CBC Radio. His chapbooks include Entries from My Affair with an Escape Artist (2003), A Wide Path to the Narrowing Future (2010) and Asiarific (2014). Charles Noble calls Eso “a force of nature and force of culture.” Eso is a graduate student at the University of Calgary where he studies the letters of Robert Kroetsch. 

Matt Smith holds a Bachelor's degree in Drama from the University of Calgary. His work has recently appeared in splinterswerve, Semaphore and Migratory Words. His poem "Callagorie" was a finalist in the Single Onion 100 Calgary Poetry Contest; and he is currently collaborating with Stuart Ian McKay on creating an aural landscape to accompany McKay's book, a cognate of prayer. 

Weyman Chan, a finalist for the 2008 Governor General's Award for poetry, lives and works in Calgary. His fifth book of poetry, Human Tissue, is forthcoming from Talonbooks. 


Song of Song Han: A Jazz Dining Aria for Three Voices

March 19th, 2015 at Shelf Life Books

A talk as part of the Single Onion 2015 Lecture Series, Part 3 - The Future of Calgary Poetry, curated by David Eso.

Featuring a poem by local elementary school student, Naomi. 

The Future of Collaboration Between the Arts

Created Jan. 2021

Best enjoyed with headphones or earbuds.

Hot Chop Train (for Uncle N.)

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