the art of poetry

If an artist chose to join a human head

To a horse’s neck and to cover with many-hued feathers

Limbs assembled in one from all over the place,

So that what was on top a lovely woman, below

Ended ugly and black in the shape of a fish,

Could you, my friends, refrain from bursting out laughing,

If you were allowed a private view of the thing?

Take my word, you Pisos, a picture like that

Would be perfectly matched by a book whose meaningless fancies

Were shaped like a sick man’s dreams, so that nowhere within it

Could foot or head be assigned to a single shape.

Horace, The Art of Poetry

Musée J.-Armand Bombardier

reviews

definitive edition, 2009

Mike Landry, "Ice Fishing in Gimli."
Things of Desire, Volume 2 Number 18: Oct 22-28, 2009.

2nd progress edition, 2006

Gary Michael Dault, “Ice Fishing in Gimli: Bibliographic Rapture in the Cold or Twilight’s Last Gleaning.”
Border Crossings, No. 102, May 2007, pp. 76-82.

Peter Goddard, “Great Expectations in Gimli.”
Toronto Star, 10 August 2006.
Review of Ice Fishing in Gimli, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto.

David Jager, “Fishing for Meanings: Rob Kovitz tries to hook into the Canadian zeitgeist in ambitious show.”
NOW Magazine, August 3-9 2006.
Review of Ice Fishing in Gimli, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto.

Sigrid Dahle, “The Trials and Tribulations of an Ambivalent Every-Artist (The Great Canadian Novel Gone Awry).”
YYZine, June 2006.

1st progress edition, 2004

Jeanne Randolph, “Rob Kovitz’s Ice Fishing in Gimli.”
Fuse Magazine, June 2004, pp. 41-46.
Review of exhibition at Gallery OneOneOne, Winnipeg.

ice fishing in gimli : reviews + squibs

squibs

Some art pundits are hailing Ice Fishing in Gimli as one of the most significant works produced here in decades.

Alison Mayes, "The Buzz," Winnipeg Free Press

#1. Rob Kovitz's multi-volume ten-years-in-the-making Ice Fishing in Gimli bookwork is a classic already. Bravo to long term projects, I say.

Cliff Eyland, "2009 Critics' Picks," Akimblog

Ice fishing in Gimli - a new nation to frolick in. Or perhaps more appropriately ice core drill into.

Mrs O'Kana, Literature et folie

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I can't tell you what the point of Ice Fishing In Gimli is ...

Jasia, "Reading the Unreadable," Midnight Poutine