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		<title>Clockfire available through online sellers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can get Clockfire at a discount from Amazon.ca&#8211;only three copies left. Or support Canadian publishing at full price from Coach House Books. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s also available at your favourite online retailer, whoever that may be.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanball.com/?p=1226</link>
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		<title>Clockfire in Nathaniel G. Moore&#8217;s round-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poet Nathaniel G. Moore has nicely &#8220;rounded-up&#8221; many of the more interesting-looking poetry releases this fall, and Clockfire managed to make the list. You can click the excerpt for the full article. Jonathan Ball’s Clockﬁre sounds intriguing to say the least. And I don’t mean “intriguing” in a wine taste description sort of way, I’m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanball.com/?p=1222</link>
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		<title>Blogging for Creative Writers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[In a first, I'm offering a guest post -- toying with this idea, so why not jump in? This is something I've been thinking about, and which my gradual site redesign is meant to address -- making this less a site about "me" and more a site for "you" to read. So "minding content," as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanball.com/?p=1211</link>
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		<title>8-Ball: kevin mcpherson eckhoff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[kevin mcpherson eckhoff’s is the author of Rhapsodomancy (Coach House Books, 2010). His visual poetry has appeared in the anthology Boredom Fighters (Tightrope Books) and in such magazines as dandelion and filling Station. A winner of the Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, he studied English literature at the University of Calgary. He recently traded his life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanball.com/?p=1217</link>
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		<title>It will always suck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another day of working on the novel, another crisis of confidence &#8212; as far as I am into the book, and even though I passed an earlier draft as my PhD dissertation, it still feels like a mess, and nowhere near where I want it to be. But I had an epiphany today: It will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanball.com/?p=1181</link>
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		<title>99% of the time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The annoying editor in me offers a tip: 99% of the time, when you write &#8220;99% of the time,&#8221; you aren&#8217;t referring to an actual study, but are being cliched and hyperbolic, and should therefore write &#8220;most of the time,&#8221; or something that is not cliched and hyperbolic.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanball.com/?p=1205</link>
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		<title>8-Ball: Rob Budde</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rob Budde teaches creative writing at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. He has published seven books (poetry, novels, interviews, and short fiction), his most recent books being Finding Ft. George, a book of poetry from Caitlin Press and declining america from BookThug. Find him at writingwaynorth.blogspot.com. 1.  What do you want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanball.com/?p=1175</link>
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		<title>No overbooking for ENGL 0930</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m hoping to eventually make this site more useful for my students (and general readers) but for now just a quick note: If you want to get into my English 0930: Composition course at the University of Manitoba, the answer is NO, I cannot let you in over the enrollment limit. The department does not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanball.com/?p=1170</link>
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		<title>Reader-friendly poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Zach Wells, some &#8220;suitable poetry&#8221; for you. Anytime you hear people talk &#8220;accessible poetry&#8221; or &#8220;reader-friendly&#8221; poetry, think of this.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jonathanball.com/?p=1167</link>
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		<title>83. Baldur&#8217;s Song: A Saga (David Arnason)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My review appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press.]]></description>
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