A few of Ian’s poems appeared in Branch Magazine’s
2010 fall issue called “Hunger”.
“Do Androids Hog the Sheets?”:
Ian’s March 2010 interview with The Link.
Ian had the pleasure of doing spoken word
at Festival Voix d’Amériques, 2010,
with the outstanding band, Dynamo Coleoptera.
(Photo by Hamza Kubba)
You can watch some video clips here
and here.
Ian recently published his second book of poetry
called Bhagavad Goalie: it transforms the ancient
and revered Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita,
from an epic clash of warriors to a hockey game
in small-town Alberta. It’s available from Buffalo Runs Press.
His other collection of poetry, called Generator, is still available as well. You can order it from McNally Robinson, Chapters Indigo, or Amazon.
(Robot Illustrations by Tyler Rauman)
He has also been published
in Matrix, Soliloquies 8 and9, and Headlight.
Look for a couple poems in Future Hygienic by Pistol Press.
He’s dabbled in some translational experiments with Maya Kuroki’s poems. They’re experiments since he knows only about 50 Japanese words so far. Luckily Maya knows more English. You may want to give them a read.
(Painting by Maya Kuroki)
Here are some of his own poems:
Haikus
(Using Forbidden Secret Technique)
cool early tree
all day long sunshine
comes and goes
trees grow towards sun
but where are we growing to?
always arriving
waves growing
explode on rock edge
mist lingers
Pouring, twitching, grass,
disappearing, twitching, disappearing,
pouring, pouring
flowers favour sun
leaning to him and not me
I am not jealous
you are open love
but others will stick to you
are you going to close?
wings ripple
thrive, thrive, thrive, thrive, thrive
waves flutter
(Art from Generator by Tyler Rauman)
One poem in Generator is written in HTML code.
It’s called “For Clemence Data.”
Here’s what it looks like on the Internet.
For Clemence Data
Classification: Classified.
Status: Out of Circulation.
Note: Poem written while rejuvenating at BOOK.
Was etched onto lens of a fluorescent lamp
with stainless-steel guitar pick (sharpened).
Rhyme Scheme:
Comments: Poem contaminated with consciousness-colouring virus. Sources say plan was to place each word of poem separately on billboards around planet. Media, tracking the work, would have unwittingly assembled hors d’oeuvre and disseminated it. Citizens of world would have irrevocably stopped living in 2.5 dimensions. Thanks to Fermilab’s particle collider—Tevatron—protons of said poem have been smashed, its gravitons sent to another dimension.
(Rhyme-scheme code programmed by Dr. Julien Nembrini.
With each reload of the Web page, it always changes.)
Ian recently did some "video readings" for the launch of Future Hygienic on Sept. 10, 2009, at Friendship Cove. They turned out stranger than planned. Play them both simultaneously, if you dare.