He has seven Kilodney titles at the moment, if anyone is looking for them.
The River Trading Company
559 Barton Street East
Hamilton, ON
416-452-6727
David McGowan owns a book store called The River Trading Company in Hamilton, Ontario.
He has seven Kilodney titles at the moment, if anyone is looking for them. The River Trading Company 559 Barton Street East Hamilton, ON 416-452-6727
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I'm doing amateur radio plays of Crad's Shakespeare For White Trash and the first is up now...free, on line. I recommend going to his Blog and read along with the script as you hear some good and some horrible actors.
https://cradkilodney.wordpress.com/2010/09/29/shakespeare-for-white-trash-macbeth/ MACBETH was our first...More plays coming soon. You can also check the disclaimer first on You Tube (Crad would be proud...well, at least "Furpo" would be pleased) ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRuZLleEJV0 Stuart Ross used to stand alongside Crad Kilodney on the streets of Toronto and hawk his poetry chapbooks. Crad disappeared into his attic garret, and Ross went on to become one of the most significant actors in the Canadian small press, working as an editor, publisher, contributor, workshop facilitator, teacher, and small press festival founder.
Kilodney was mentioned in Ross's book, Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer. And he's mentioned again in this just released follow-up from Anvil Press. In fact, the book is dedicated to him. I hope you will pick up this book, whether or not you are a Kilodneyphile- because it is hilarious, heartbreaking, and relevant to every reader and writer. Click the book image to go to Amazon- but if you can find it at your local bookstore please get it there instead. ![]() April 14, 2015 - One year ago today, Crad Kilodney left the earth after a long battle with cancer. In honour of that anniversary, the Crad Kilodney Literary Foundation presents Strong Meat: repulsive reading by Crad Kilodney. It's a collection of blogs and online writings, in keeping with the foundation's sole purpose to promote and preserve his literature. Click on the image to view or purchase through Amazon. Crad Kilodney is featured in the December 2014 issue of The Halcyon, which is the newsletter of "the friends of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library."
You will soon be able to read the article online at the library (click here). Children's book and Bible story illustrator Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod, who lives in Israel, wrote today to tell me that Crad Kilodney was the person who got her writing. She posted a tribute to him on her blog. Click here to read it.
Mining town paper's Rev. Rod Lamb tributes Rev. Crad Kilodney. Sort of.
The Cross of Love is an artwork series created by Crad's longtime friend, Robert Hay, inspired by Crad. It includes the Cross of Passion, Cross of Beauty, Cross of Caring, and Cross of Intellect. "The Cross Series
has helped me to visualize different kinds of love, and here I have selected the four kinds I feel Crad epitomized...I am so glad his legacy has been truly established now and that his intention to criticize life's hypocrisies and absurdities can be seen is all his works... Hitting the streets for 17 yrs. was an Olympian feat that won the hearts and minds of his fellow Toronto pedestrians, or conversely won the antipathy and extreme reactions of those whom he addressed and confronted on a daily basis. In that sense, he was an Aquarian reformer and humanitarian, true to his astrological imperative of that sign. Crad as alter ego, gave Lou the license to be more than was humanly possible, to reach out in ways that only well written, forceful and meaningful words can achieve. Now it is up to us, the reader, to put the pieces of his oft puzzling words together." Thanks Robert for sending these in. It was a great honour to be asked by Noah Richler to read on behalf of Crad at the Luminato Festival's Literary Picnic. The Literary Picnic took place yesterday afternoon in Trinity Bellwoods Park, Toronto. Thank you to the festival and to Toronto for the chance to memorialize Crad at this important event.
I read from Gainfully Employed in Limbo and Putrid Scum, a few excerpts on the writing life, including a short piece written in 1979 about "posthumous fame." The pieces were hilarious as always. Many thanks to Joe Fiorito, pictured with me below. Joe is a longtime reporter at the Toronto Star and was the first of the papers to write about Crad's death. He also read at the festival. |
If you have thoughts, memories, or photos about Crad or his work you would like to share, send them to ideafountain@hotmail.com to be posted in this department.
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