Gadzooks! episode thirty-nine

This is a person in your neighbourhood...

THIS IS Dorianne Emmerton. Okay, it's not, we don't have a picture. But we compensated with about 1000 words.

A couple of members of the vast Gadzooks! Team of dedicated, mayhap fanatical, contributors have gone on a journey to the "other side"...

Being from the East Coast, it's amazing how many people in the No Fly Zone are also displaced Maritimers (or Atlantic Canadians, if you include our cousins from Newfoundland, a distinction lost on your average Torontonian).

Acorn's elephants...

Exploring some of the poetry that is Milton Acorn, a former resident of the NFZ (the Waverly, to be exact) and an Islander by birth. His last reading was at Grossman's Tavern, in May 1986.

Pomes from Home...

Rod talks about his favourite Island poet, John MacKenzie.

NFZer gets Peabody...

Jowi Taylor never ceases to create, build and enhance the artistic community, and now they've given him a recognition.

Poseurs...

Poetic backlash to fear of an intimidating presence.

Somebody won the free tee shirt, and we're not telling who...

Okay it's Sarah R. She won it for guessing the Beaver, which is actually not the rat restaurant, but we liked her guess the best. Sarah, you rock & your tee is on its way. (but give it a few weeks, cause we're in PEI right now)

Marion Bridge, by Cape Breton playwright Daniel MacIvor, at The Guild in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island this month. “Kathleen Hamilton, Christina Forgeron, and Melissa Mullen star in this drama about estranged sisters who are thrown back into each others lives by the occasion of their mother's illness.” Shows run June 15, 16, 22, and 23. Also running in July. Doors open at 7:30 pm, show-time is 8:00 pm. Tickets are available in advance at The Guild box office, or at the door on performance nights. For reservations call 902-620-3333.

June 18 Hey Rosetta! From St. John's, Newfoundland with Mr. Rick & the Biscuits at Mitzi's Sister 1554 Queen Street West.

Lexiconjury Reading Series. “From October 2001 to now, the Lexiconjury Reading Series has offered Toronto the innovative, innate, inert, inane, and anaerobic in Canadian literature. The series comes to a close on June 20, featuring an All Open Michelle. Toronto 's favourite wordsmiths will share one original and one cover poem in this final communal sharing of the Lexiconjury stage. Guaranteed to be hott (yes, with two Ts).” June 20 at The Cameron House, 408 Queen St W., 8pm, Free.

The full title of the painting which inspired our magazine title is Homo sapiens, Lepidium sativum and Calliphora vomitoria - a wise man, some cress, and a bluebottle. It is the work of British artist Stuart Pearson Wright.

"At the end of the first sitting, the Prince inspected the work and exclaimed 'godzooks' or 'godzounds', the artist was too alarmed to remember which."