playwright, poet, librettist
David James Brock is a Canadian playwright, poet and librettist. Author of poetry collection, Everyone is CO2. Librettist for Scottish pub opera, The Sloans Project. Co-creator of Breath Cycle, an opera for cystic fibrosis.
David James Brock will attend the 2018 Victoria Festival of Authors
David James Brock will attend the 2018 Victoria Festival of Authors
Reading from Ten-Headed Alien at the 2018 Winnipeg Writer’s Festival.
David James Brock will be reading from Ten-Headed Alien at Toronto's Art Bar reading series.
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!
An all new version of Wet will be performed as part of Itsazoo's 2017/2018 season!
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.
Tapestry Opera presents Songbook VII, which includes Miss Quickly, a short piece I wrote with composer Iman Habibi.
A Pacific Herring Gull talks love, life & death while spinning Yacht Rock records.
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.
After being performed in Canada and selling out at the Edinburgh Festival, Noise Opera brings back the Sloans Opera by Gareth Williams and David James Brock to Glasgow’s oldest pub this July for just seven performances.
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.
David James Brock will be a featured reader (late replacement) reading new poems and from his poetry collection, Everyone is CO2, at Planet Earth Poetry's weekly reading series in Victoria. The reading also features Tina Biello and an open mic.
Buy Everyone is CO2 at the reading or on the Wolsak & Wynn website.
David will return to Tapestry New Opera as the librettist for a new collaboration of experimental punk and opera in Tap: ex Metallurgy. This piece explores modes through which opera might assume a twenty-first century rebirth and involves collaborating with members of Canadian hardcore band Fucked Up, and two of Canada’s most masterful and versatile opera singers, mezzo-soprano Krisztina Szabó and tenor David Pomeroy.
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.
David James Brock will be reading new poems and from his poetry collection, Everyone is CO2, at Palmpiset Press's Pillette Village Reading Series in Windsor. Buy Everyone is CO2 at the reading or on the Wolsak & Wynn website.
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 poetry collection, Everyone is CO2, as part of IFOA Weekly/Poetry NOW's 7th Annual Battle of the Bards.
From the IFOA Website:
1 stage. 20 poets. 1 winner.
Our popular poetry competition returns in 2015 to feature readings by 20 of Canada’s upcoming and established poets. Judges Geoffrey E. Taylor (IFOA’s Director), Jen Tindall (IFOA’s Artistic Associate) and Catherine Graham (the 2014 Poetry NOW champion) will select one winner, who will receive an automatic invitation to read at the 36th edition of the International Festival of Authors AND an ad for their book in NOW Magazine!
Cost: $10/FREE supporters, students & youth 25 and under
Buy Everyone is CO2 at the reading or on the Wolsak & Wynn website.
David James Brock is returning to Toronto Cold Reads, a play reading series in Toronto. The third excerpt from his new play Misogyny will receive a cold reading from local Toronto talents who will arrive and receive the scripts an hour prior the show. The reading is PWYC. See more event details on the Toronto Cold Reads Website.
David James Brock will be reading new poems and from his poetry collection, Everyone is CO2, at the Hart House Review Speak Easy No. 3 in Toronto. David was featured poet in the 2014 Hart House Review (free copies available at the reading). Buy Everyone is CO2 at the reading or on the Wolsak & Wynn website.
