Lock up your daughters Montreal, bring out the alcohol, and prepare yourself for a Dionysian good time because Mingus is coming to town.

See him this Sunday October 23rd at Cafe Esperanza (5490 St. Laurent) for the Perpetual Motion Roadshow starting at 8pm.

I was thrilled when I found out my poem "About that Night" was published alongside his "The Golden Seduction of Buddha" in the 1st print edition of Black Heart Magazine.

I've been a fan of his ever since I saw an episode of Zed TV on CBC where Mingus could be seen driving across Canada in a pink ambulance spreading poetic fervour across the country.

He is controversial, brash, and full of poetic zeal. I for one am looking forward to meeting the guy and hopefully getting my copy of Nunt signed.

Here are some reviews for Mingus Tourette's book, Nunt:

"He is either insane or brilliant. In my own humble opinion, and in the best of circumstances, he's both."
The Brandon Quill

"Nunt makes Fight Club look like Three Little Bunnies ... these verses have something to mortally offend everyone who reads them. I devoured them in one sitting (before they devoured me), struck again and again by their tireless and imaginative violence - passion, really. Tourette wrenches tormented, nihilistic and surreally brutal feelings out of the pornographic and into the poetic. Like drinking yourself sober, there's virtue in the excess."
Daniel Richler

"Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs... Mingus Tourette? High praise, but Tourette belongs in this company. And when the time comes, I want a seat at their table in Hell."
NEXUS

"Mingus Tourette is a fascinating writer. Even if you can't tolerate the revulsion this book causes, you probably won't be able to put it down."
Imprint

"[I] really liked your story, a profane, nightmarish tale whose narrator travels to Cambodia and blows up a barn, then a cow, with hand grenades. It was written with economy and momentum and a raw, poetic grace, and had this compressed Apocalypse Now vibe that invoked Latin and satori, the Buddhist notion of sudden enlightenment... still sticks in my guts after several months"
The Edmonton Journal, Shawn Ohler, Culture Editor on Nunto 35