THE SIREN OF HOWE SOUND
Haley \‘hay-lee\, Heather n, trailblazing poet, author, musician and media artist Heather Haley pushes boundaries by creatively integrating disciplines, genres and media.
ONE LIFE \wuhn ‘lahyf\ n, Heather's blog
New Projects in 2012
Heather has completed her novel, The Town Slut's Daughter! It is *under consideration* by several publishers. We'll keep you posted.
Heather's poetry-music fusion act, AURAL Heather is entering an exciting new phase. Heather is directing a video based upon Whore In the Eddy, a spoken word song from her CD Princess Nut while drawing up plans for a live, multimedia show.
Performance on Video and Poetry in Print
Heather performed at many events in 2011 including the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival, featured as one of five "Wild Women." She is third up in this video segment after Elyse and Deanna (at 0:40:00).
She is also featured in the new Sheri-D Wilson edited Spoken Word Workbook (Banff Centre Press) with an essay called Sideways, along with bill bissett, Paul Dutton, Ian Ferrier, John Giorno, Bob Holman, Kaie Kellough, Billeh Nickerson, Robert Priest, Anne Waldman and many others.
Three Blocks West of Wonderland
"If you are a Rambling girl who wants to shirk and shake her motherland, read this jitters and jive guide to the other side of Canada and the world. Fads and fears take Air Canada wing (or Westjet’s). Sights seen turn into fables and metaphors, quirks of speech and character galore. As to the body of the language, the Canadian straightjacket lies like an old pair of stays on the stage in this diction strippers act. But there is a serious restlessness to Heather Haley's serial observations — in the tradition of that great Canadian traveller in poetry, Ralph Gustafson's: adagio notations, like his, on everything she sees and feels and musically reveals." — author, Vancouver's first Poet Laureate, George McWhirter
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"Haley's narrative-driven lyrical poems are emotionally raw and go down like a shot of whiskey. Haley has no trouble finding the beauty of life, just as she has no trouble pointing out the ugly truth. Every poem in Three Blocks West of Wonderland features humour, anger, passion, love, inquisition and a kick-in-the-pants tone. This book is best read at a casual pace, or more specifically, this whisky slinging, pickle juice-in-the-potato-salad, road kill, I-5 poetry is best read with a cool mug of lager. It'll put some hair on those balls...or grow you a set for that matter." -Poetry Is Dead Magazine.
Beautiful Loser, Tortured Killer
How Two Veterans of the L.A. Punk Scene Wound Up on a Collision Course, Until Only One Was Left Standing
This article in the LA Weekly describes how, years after they separated, Heather's ex-husband was killed by her ex-boyfriend in Los Angeles, both *characters* in Heather's novel, The Town Slut's Daughter. Read the article >
SIDEWAYS
"Brawny, uncompromising language from a voice that demands to be reckoned with."
Heather's first book of poetry, Sideways (published by Anvil Press) may be found in many fine bookstores — or go to the library and borrow it.
Sideways may be ordered online through Chapters.indigo.ca, Amazon.ca and Amazon.com.
ISBN:1-895636-56-X
PURPLE LIPSTICK
Beyond Goth
Heather is headed to Haida Gwaii next month, honoured to participate in the Haida Gwaii Film Festival where two of her videopoems are to be screened; Bushwhack and Purple Lipstick, still garnering kudos having been an official selection at the VideoBardo 2nd International VideoPoetry Festival in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the 3rd Zebra International Poetry Film Festival in Berlin, Germany and the Women in Film Festival in Vancouver.
Read an interview: 12 or 20 questions: with Heather Haley