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POETRY London 2008

Poetry London 2007-2008 Reading Series

Dates and Locations:

Fred Landon Branch Library
167 Wortley Road
London ON N6C 3P6
519 439-6240

Workshops start at 6:30

All readings start at 7:30

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ELIZABETH BACHINSKY

Elizabeth Bachinsky is the author of two collections of poetry Curio: Grotesques and Satires from the Electronic Age (BookThug, 2005) and Home of Sudden Service (Nightwood, 2006). Her poetry has been nominated for The Bronwen Wallace Award and The Governor General's Award and has recently been translated into French and Chinese. She was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, was raised in Prince George and Maple Ridge, BC, and currently lives in Vancouver where she curates the Robson Reading Series and runs Crow & Carrion Press, a micropress that specializes in producing limited print runs of Canadian poetry and visual art using letterpress technology.

STEPHANIE BOLSTER

Stephanie Bolster has published three collections: White Stone: The Alice Poems (Signal/Véhicule, 1998), which won the Governor General's Award and the Gerald Lampert Award; Two Bowls of Milk (McClelland & Stewart, 1999), which won the Archibald Lampman Award and was short listed for the Trillium Award; and Pavilion (M&S, 2002). Born and raised in Vancouver, she teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montréal and recently edited The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems (McGill-Queen’s, 2005) by the late Ottawa poet Diana Brebner. White Stone will appear in French with Les Éditions du Noroît in autumn 2007, translated by Daniel Canty.


CHRISTOPHER DEWDNEY

Christopher Dewdney, born in London, Ontario, is a four-time Governor General’s Award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction. He has published more than ten books of poetry, including Children of the Outer Dark: The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney, selected with an Introduction by Karl E. Jirgens (Laurier Press, 2007), Demon Pond (McClelland & Stewart, 1994), and Radiant Inventory (McClelland & Stewart, 1988). He served as writer-in-residence at the University of Western Ontario in 1991, and other years at Trent, York, and the University of Windsor. Dewdney has worked as a professional writer, editor, teacher, television commentator, artist, and arts critic. Featured in Ron Mann’s film, Poetry in Motion, Dewdney has presented his groundbreaking poetics across North America and Europe. He also creates acoustic and visual art, along with incisive arts commentary for print, radio, and television.


ADAM DICKINSON

Adam Dickinson was born in Bracebridge, Ontario. His poems and reviews have appeared in a number of Canadian literary journals and in anthologies such as Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets, and Post Prairie. He has published academic articles on Canadian literature and film. His first book of poetry, Cartography and Walking (Brick Books, 2002) was short listed for an Alberta Book Award. The collection that became this book won the 1999 Alfred G. Bailey Prize for the best unpublished poetry manuscript. His second book of poetry Kingdom, Phylum (Brick Books, 2006) was a finalist for the 2007 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Adam has an MA in creative writing from the University of New Brunswick and a PhD in English from the University of Alberta. He is currently professor of poetics at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, where he teaches poetry, creative writing, and literary theory.




DON GUTTERIDGE

Don Gutteridge is a southern Ontario poet, writer, and educator. He grew up in Point Edward, Ontario and graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1960. He has taught English to students at all levels for over thirty years, and is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario. His poetry began with books about such Canadian heroes as Louis Riel, Samuel Hearne, and the legendary Indian chief Tecumseh. Poetry publications include Bloodlines (2001), Love in the Wintertime (1990), and The Exiled Heart: Selected Narratives (1986), all from Oberon Press. In total, he has over two dozen books of verse, prose, and theory to his credit, and is author of numerous articles and reviews in education.



DAVID HICKEY

David Hickey grew up on Prince Edward Island, in western Labrador, and along the north shore of Quebec. A past recipient of the Milton Acorn Prize and the Ralph Gustafson Prize for poetry, his work has appeared in magazines and journals across Canada and the United States. His first book, In the Lights of a Midnight Plow (Biblioasis, 2006), was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. David has a MA in English and Creative Writing from the University of New Brunswick, and is currently working towards a PhD at the University of Western Ontario.



LEE MARACLE

Lee Maracle was born in North Vancouver B. C. and is member of the Stolo Nation. Her critically acclaimed books include the novels Ravensong (Press Gang, 1993), Will's Garden (Theytus, 2002), and Daughters are Forever (Raincoast, 2002); a collection of short stories Sojourner's Truth (Press Gang, 1990); the poetry collection Bent Box (Theytus, 2000); and a non-fiction work I Am Woman: an indigenous perspective on feminism (Raincoast, 2002). She has also contributed to and co-edited several anthologies, including the award-winning My Home as I Remember, and Telling It: Women and Language Across Culture. Lee Maracle is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Aboriginal Studies and English at the University of Toronto, and Writer in Residence at Guelph University.



SUSAN MCCASLIN

Susan McCaslin is a poet and educator recently retired from the English Department at Douglas College. She is the author of eleven volumes of poetry including Lifting the Stone (Seraphim Editions, 2007), A Plot of Light (Oolichin Press, 2004), At the Mercy Seat (Ronsdale Press, 2003) and Flying Wounded (University Press of Florida, 2000). Susan is the editor of the anthologies A Matter of Spirit: Recovery of the Sacred in Contemporary Canadian Poetry (Ekstasis Editions, 1998) and Poetry and Spiritual Practice: Selections from Contemporary Canadian Poets (St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2002). She was the first-place winner of the Mother Tongue Chapbook competition for Letters to William Blake judged by P.K. Page in 1997, and the first-place winner of The Federation of B.C. Writers’ “Literary Writes” for 2006. She lives in Fort Langley, B.C. with her husband and has a daughter in university.

JOHN PASS

John Pass’ poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in Canada, the US , the UK, and Ireland . He won the Canada Poetry prize in 1988 and the Gillian Lowndes Award in 2001. Sixteen books and chapbooks of his work have been published, most significantly the four volumes comprising At Large: The Hour's Acropolis (Harbour Publishing, 1991), Radical Innocence (Harbour Publishing 1994), Water Stair ( Oolichan Books, 2000) and Stumbling in the Bloom (Oolichan Books, 2005). The Hour’s Acropolis and Water Stair were short-listed for The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC Book Prizes). Water Stair was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Stumbling in the Bloom won the Governor General’s Award in 2006.


JAY RUZESKY

Jay Ruzesky was born in Edmonton, Alberta and raised in Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Thunder Bay, Calgary, and Kelowna. He studied under John Lent at Okanagan College, with Constance Rooke at the University of Victoria, and with Alistair MacLeod at the University of Windsor. His poems and stories have appeared in Canadian and American journals such as Caliban, Prism international, Canadian Literature, Event, Saturday Night, Descant, Border Crossings, and Poetry Northwest, and in the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. His books include Blue Himalayan Poppies (Nightwood, 2001), Writing on the Wall (Outlaw Editions, 1996), Painting The Yellow House Blue (House of Anansi, 1994), Am I Glad To See You (Thistledown, 1992), and What Was Left of James Dean (Outlaw Editions, 1992). He is on the editorial board of the Malahat Review and teaches at Malaspina University-College on Vancouver Island. Essays, interviews and art criticism have appeared in Brick, Poetry Canada Review, and selected gallery publications. A novel, The Wolsenburg Clock, is forthcoming.

DAVID SOLWAY

David Solway’s most recent book of poetry is Reaching for Clear (Vehicule Press, Signal Editions, 2007). A previous volume, Franklin’s Passage (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004), was awarded Le Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. He has won the QSPELL Award twice, for poetry (Modern Marriage) and for prose (Education Lost). His latest volume of literary criticism is Director’s Cut (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2003) and a political study, The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism and Identity, appeared this year with Lester, Mason & Begg/Random House. Appointed poet-in-residence at Concordia University for 1999-2000, he is currently an associate editor with Books in Canada.


JOHN STEFFLER

John Steffler is the author of five books of poetry, including The Grey Islands (M&S, 1985, Brick Books, 2000), That Night We were Ravenous (M&S, 1998), and Helix: New and Selected Poems (Vehicule, 2003). His novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright (M&S, 1992) won the Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, and was short listed for the Governor General’s Award and the Commonwealth First Novel Award. His poetry awards include the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Newfoundland and Labrador Poetry Prize. He has served as writer-in-residence at Concordia University, Saint Mary’s University, and the University of New Brunswick. Originally from Ontario, he lived for many years in Newfoundland where he taught in the Department of English at Memorial University’s Grenfell College. He now teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal. In December 2006 he was named poet laureate of Canada.

Poetry London is co-sponsored by its members, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Fred Landon Branch, London Public Library. Oxford Books has served writers in this city for the past 55 years and has agreed to support the series by ordering a selection of relevant titles to sell at each reading. If you have ideas or input for our organization, would like more information, or would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact the Fred Landon Branch library at (519)439-6240.
Book signing courtesy of Oxford Books.

In CORNELIA HOOGLAND’S ’s fourth book of poetry, "Cuba Journal: Writing and Language" (Black Moss Press, 2003), she continues to explore sense of place. Hoogland looks first to the body a person’s most immediate experience of place as well as to the mediating and distancing effects of language, and to the geographical, cultural and political contexts within which people live and derive their meanings. Other books include "You Are Home" (Black Moss Press, 2001), "Marrying the Animals" (Brick Books,1995) and "The Wire-Thin Bride" (Turnstone, 1990). Hoogland has performed, lectured, and worked internationally (Cuba, the Philippines, Brazil, U.S. and England) in the areas of poetry and theatre (she is also a playwright). She teaches at the University of Western Ontario, where she can be reached at chooglan@uwo.ca.

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