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Liisa live at Pontiac Quarterly, Drake Hotel The
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October 2008See Liisa Read!Burning
Effigy Press Fall Launch Fascination
Street :: Poetry and Noise 
New Books Autumn 2008I am proud to present two new poetry chapbooks for autumnal bedtime reading. Made with love and blood and available for on-line purchase.
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Liisa Ladouceur (that's me) is a word geek who loves writing and reading more than just about anything else in the world, save for perhaps dancing under a disco ball in the wee hours to AC/DC or Daft Punk. I work as an arts reporter and music pundit -- you may have agreed/disagreed with what I've said on MuchMoreMusic and CBC Radio or written in the pages of Eye Weekly, Rue Morgue or the Toronto Sun. If you'd like to send hate mail about my views on Bon Jovi, Def Leppard or Pearl Jam, sorry -- that mailbag is full. But if you like poetry as much as pop culture, this is where to keep up with my creative writing projects and public appearances. 
2008:On Tenterhooks, collected works of poetry, published by Burning Effigy Press. Published Alive! The Sideshow Sonnets, illustrated by Gillian Holmes, published by House of Pomegranates Press. “Sang” for 16,000 people on stage with Iron Maiden. Read between a puker and a fist fight during a lunar eclipse at The End of the Internet. You really should have been there. 2007:Edited the poetry anthology Nuit Blanche: Poems for Late Nights, published by the Royal Sarcophagus Society Press. Became the Blood Spattered Guide to music for Rue Morgue Radio's weekly all-horror podcast. 2006:Survived the apocalyptic 6/6/6 calendar date with a special reading at the Cameron House. Published in the Strong Words: Volume One Anthology. Designed a line of horrific T-shirts called Quoth the Raven. Learned to decipher Satanic scripty fonts co-writing narration, script editing and researching for heavy metal doc Global Metal. 2004-2005: Sign Poetry:Poems and rants composed entirely of words photographed in public spaces, an obsession I pursued everywhere: airports, campsites, cemeteries and beyond. Toured across North America as part of the Perpetual Motion Roadshow and read at several Toronto series including Pontiac Quarterly and Indiepolitik. The sign poem "Give Me Liberty Village" was published in Ukula magazine; "Mount St. Helens" appeared on the2ndhand.com. 2003: Fortune Poems100 bite-sized poems disguised as fortunes, served in cookie form at the inaugural Autumnal Cabinet of Wonders Soireé, presented by the The Royal Sarcophagus Society. 1990s: The Ninth WaveIn a previous life, I published 8 issues of a girlie goth zine called the Ninth Wave. Corset photos. Sisters of Mercy jokes. Creepy cookie recipes. Good times. Then the "internet" came and took all the fun out of gluing sparkly bats into mail orders. 
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