featured title:

trains of winnipeg

poetry by clive holden, music by christine fellows and jason tait + john k. samson (of the weakerthans)

 

 

 

 


one eye awards, winter 2001/02

new great sites:

treyf

dimcoast.org

superbad.com

matthew g. kirschenbaum

videoculture.org

oxenburgh.com

visualorgasm.com

levitated.net

one eye award for best site, period:
ubuweb visual, concrete & sound poetry, the site is a work of art in and of itself.

one eye award for best poetry site:
electronic poetry center the e.p.c. is the best existing resource centre for most forms of electronic poetry.

one eye award for best vegetarian restaurant:
green cuisine in victorolia, run by andy cunningham, genius veggie cook -- site includes recipes + 'ask andy' -- this restaurant is a bhuddist being.

one eye award for best veg. restaurant/alt. bookstore:
mondragon in winnipeg, a collective that works -- deserving of support for that alone.

one eye award for best canadian news magazines:
canadian dimension
THIS magazine
rabble.ca

one eye award for best train art (suggestions please!):
t h e r o t t i n g t r a i n, by john jacobsen

one eye award for best writer on art, & esp. art + politics:
john berger: art & revolution
john berger: about looking
john berger: ways of seeing
john berger: a seventh man

one eye award for great canadian poetry:
alden nolan

one eye award for best international news source:
guardian unlimited

one eye award for best alternative policy (our own think tank):
the canadian centre for policy alternatives

one eye award for best canadian literary review:
the danforth review

one eye award for best guide to alternative culture:
broken pencil

one eye award for best art festival:
send + receive: a festival of sound

one eye award for best poetry store:
poetry spoken here the league of canadian poets new on-line store.

one eye award for best sound poet:
christian bok
listen to his double-speed rendition of schwitters' ursonate on ubuweb (real audio) (schwitters' own comments on the ursonate) (kurt schwitters as himself, scroll down for audio)

one eye award for best dada site:
DaDa Online, + their links to more Dada sites

one eye award for best book reviews:
juliet waters in the montreal mirror usually updated by thursday evs.

one eye award for best on-line book news magazine:
books unlimited from the manchester guardian

one eye awards for best presses/labels:

versus press new lit./political press, great attitude, very promising
city lights honourable san francisco press & bookstore
salmon publishing ireland's poetry press
g7 welcoming committee
mille plateaux the art of sound art

one eye award for best sound artist:
charles cristophe, undirected, 1986-96
charles christophe, dok (scroll down for tracks)

one eye awards for best rock band:
the weakerthans

one eye award for world's best filmmakers:
arthur lipsett, review, bio, bio
bruce baillie

one eye award for audio poetry site:
the electronic poetry center's audio art section
the academy of american poets ee cummings, for ex., in their 'listening booth'

one eye award for best speech
seamus heaney's nobel prize lecture

one eye award for most useful site:
environment canada's winnipeg weather report from the coolest city in the world