David will return to the Common Reading Series in Toronto along side Curtis Leblanc and Mallory Tater.

David will be a part of the Writing Illness panel at the Canadian Writers’ Summit, where he will discuss his work with Breath Cycle, an opera created for singers with cystic fibrosis.

David is reading Ten-Headed Alien at Knife Fork Book with Dani Couture!

The Wolsak & Wynn Hamilton launch!

The spring 2018 launch in Toronto of new titles from Wolsak & Wynn, including Ten-Headed Alien, is nigh. 

Vancouver launch of Ten-Headed Alien with Laisha Rosnau (Our Familiar Hunger, Nightwood Editions).

On Friday the 13th (of April), Brock and Couture will launch their new collections of poetry at beautiful Biblioasis in Windsor. We would love to see you there. 

David James Brock will be reading from his new collection Ten-Headed Alien as GritLit partners with LitLive Reading to open up the Grit Lit festival week.

"More than Earthly Meat and Drink" a suite of poems from Ten-Headed Alien has been set to music by Adam Sherkin. This song cycle will premiere at Sherkin's LISZT: Pilgrimage at the Glen Gould Studio Mainstage. 

The first reading from Ten-Headed Alien at the University of Guelph's MFA in Creative Writing’s Reading series.

Three new poetic monologues for Adam Sherkin's concert series in response to three of Chopin's Scherzi.

I read from my prize winning poem "Bionic Pigeon Wing on the Roadside" as part of "What's Your Story - Etobicoke." I also run a workshop on "Writing Dialogue" as part of the event.

Hosts Michael Winter and Catherine Bush celebrate the 10th anniversary of University of Guelph’s Creative Writing MFA program, whose faculty, alumni (including me), and students have been pushing boundaries―being reckless!―for the past ten years.

David James Brock's play Wet (winner of the 2011 Herman Voaden Award) will be presented at the 2016 Revolver Festival as part of the UpDrafts Reading Series. Under the direction of Chelsea Haberlin and dramaturgy of Sebastien Archibald, ITSAZOO Productions is presenting this reworked version of the play.

David James Brock will be reading new poems and from his poetry collection, Everyone is CO2, at Poems for All Occasions at Victoria's Caffè Fantastico Specialty Coffees. The reading also features friends and fellow Toronto poets Daniel Scott Tysdal and Jim Johnstone reading from their new collections.

Sewing the Earthworm will be a part of the Canadian Art Song Project's Recital Series, part its 2015-2016 season.

For the first time in Brian Harman's (composer) and David James Brock's (writer) Sewing the Earthworm's project, Carla Huhtanen (soprano) and Steven Philcox (piano) will be joined by choreographer and dancer Jennifer Nichols.

David James Brock joins a killer lineup of poets on September 5th for a series of microtalks on the theme of Play & Poetry.

Come celebrate the Centretracks release of Sewing the Earthworm, an innovative song cycle by composer Brian Harman and librettist David James Brock, recorded by soprano Carla Huhtanen and pianist Steven Philcox. The musicians will present an intimate performance of the work, followed by a brief discussion about this unique cycle and celebratory drinks.

David James Brock will be reading from his debut poetry collection, Everyone is CO2, and participating in the "Words Aloud: Writing for a Live Audience" panel discussion with Darrell Dennis and Kevin Kerr, hosted by Joan McLeod. Buy the book at the reading or on the Wolsak & Wynn website.