Media Kit
O Spam, Poams: Rob Read's new book of poems, which is a collection of the very best of the first two years of Daily Treated Spam, is available exclusively online from Apollinaire's Bookshoppe.
Contact:
519-666-0168
Prompt e-mail reply from: readrobread@gmail.com
Download a printable PDF of this media kit here.
January 5, 2006
- Spam on the Road
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Spam poet hits Ottawa and Montreal
Poetry made from spam e-mail? When poet Rob Read first started sending his junk e-mail to his friends after editing it into poetry, he didn't expect to win any popularity contests. But ever since a selection of these poems was published by Canadian independent press BookThug as O Spam, Poams: Selected Daily Treated Spam, Read has been getting a lot of attention.
It started when a webpage in Finland asked to link to him, and not long after, major American literary critic Ron Silliman wrote a praise filled entry on his blog about Daily Treated Spam, including his plea to keep the spam coming, despite the mass success of O Spam, Poams.
The most recent accolade for Daily Treated Spam is the inclusion of several poems in the newly released anthology Shift & Switch from the Mercury Press. Shift & Switch features work from over forty bright new voices in Canadian poetry and is edited by derek beaulieu, Jason Christie & Angela Rawlings.
In the next few months, Read will travel from his home in Toronto to do several readings, including Shift & Switch book launches in Ottawa on January 13, at 7:30 pm, at Mother Tongue Books, and in Montreal on January 14, at 8:00 pm, at Café Esperanza. Other readers in Ottawa and Montreal will include Jon Paul Fiorentino, Matthew Hollett, Max Middle, Angela Rawlings, and Matthew Hollett (Montreal only).
And there's more to come for fans of Read's Daily Treated Spam as he journeys to Buffalo and Philadelphia later this month, Buffalo again in February, and Chicago in April.
Of course, Read keeps sending new Daily Treated Spam every day, and maintains his popular website www.dailytreatedspam.com - a parody of make-money-quick websites - where people sign-up to receive Daily Treated Spam.
"As long as there is spam, there will be Daily Treated Spam," says Read. And anyone who uses e-mail at all can tell you that the end doesn't seem to be in sight.
Contact
Rob Read directly:
Weekdays: 416-736-2100 ext 40635
Evenings and Weekends: 416-651-5450
E-mail: readrobread@gmail.com
Website: www.dailytreatedspam.com
Shift & Switch anthology website: http://www.themercurypress.com/poetry/shiftswitch/
Review copies and hard copies of the media kit are available on request.
Read is available for interviews about:
* Spam Poetry; found poetry; general views about poetry
* Growing up in rural Ontario; current life in urban Toronto
* Why O Spam, Poams isn't being sold in 'big box' mega-bookstores
* Prior publishing history and Read's own publishing house Produce Press
Keywords: culture, computers, technology, books/literature, poetry, reviews, arts, entertainment, spam, junk e-mail.