Poets on Campus Spring Series

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Monday, January 18th, 2010
4:00 PM

SCHEDULE:

Hilary Peach
Monday January 18 at 4 pm in the Library Writing Centre

Hilary PeachHilary Peach is a writer, audio poet, recording artist, arts activist, and producer. She has performed at events that include the Vancouver International Folk Music Festival, Montreal’s Festival Voix d’Ameriques, and the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam. Her debut recording, an exquisite audiophile CD called Poems Only Dogs Can Hear (2003) suspends surreal vignettes inside a matrix of music. Peach’s new CD release, Suitcase Local, is an adaptation of her touring folk opera of the same name. This spoken-word and music fusion is a spooky retelling of her experiences working as a Canadian welder in the construction and maintenance of power plants in the USA. Publications include 10 Flowered Cactus (1996), Love is a Small Town (2001), and inclusions in various anthologies and magazines. Hilary Peach is the founder and Artistic Director of the Poetry Gabriola Festival on Gabriola Island, BC.
Selected Works

Poems Only Dogs Can Hear (2003)
Love Is A Small Town (Wave7Press, 2001)
Flowered Cactus (Wave7Press, 1995)

Sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets and The Canada Council.

Don McKay
Monday February 15 at 4 pm in the Library Writing Centre

Don McKayDon Mckay also reads Friday, February 12 at 7:30pm for ArtSpring on Saltspring Island and Saturday, February 13 at The Roxy on Gabriola Island.

Don McKay’s books of poetry include Birding, or desire (1983), Night Field (1991), Apparatus (1997), Another Gravity (2000) and Strike/Slip (2006). Camber, a selected poetry, appeared in 2004. Five of his books have been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, and two of them—Night Fields and Another Gravity—received that award. He has been nominated for the Griffin award three times, and received it for Strike/Slip in 2007. Since 1975 he has been connected with Brick Books as an editor and publisher. After teaching English and Creative Writing at the universities of Western Ontario and New Brunswick for twenty seven years, he now writes and edits fulltime. From 1991 to 1997 he edited The Fiddlehead, and he has served as a workshop leader for institutions and writers’ groups. At present he is the Associate Director for poetry at the Banff Centre. His abiding interest in natural history and the environment has led to two books on the poetics of wilderness—Vis a Vis (2001) and Deactivated West 100 (2005)

Don Mckay has lived all over Canada, and currently makes his home in St. John’s Newfoundland. In 2009 he was named to the Order of Canada.

All readings sponsored by the Canada Council.

Michael Turner
Monday March 15 at 4 pm in The Library Writing Centre

Michael TurnerAs a teenager, Michael Turner spent summers working on the northern coast of B.C. in the salmon fishery. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts (anthropology) at the University of Victoria (1986) he worked with autistic adults before becoming a full-time musician, touring with Hard Rock Miners (a "post-modern jug band"). In 1993 Turner left music to open the Malcolm Lowry Room (a multi-media night club) in the North Burnaby Inn. The fiction and poetry that followed include: Company Town (1991), Hard Core Logo (1993), Kingsway (1995) American Whiskey Bar (1997) and The Pornographer's Poem, (1999). Michael Turner’s work has been adapted to radio, stage, television and feature-film. His books have been translated into French, Russian, German and Korean.
Awards include the 2000 BC Book Prize for Fiction and a 1996 Genie Award for Music/Original Song; he was also a finalist for the 1992 Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize for Poetry. Most recently, Michael has written a libretto commissioned by the Modern Baroque Opera Company, based on Wilhelm Busch's Max & Mortiz. He lives in Vancouver, where, in addition to fiction and screenplays (including a screenplay collaboration with filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, entitled Von Gloeden, based on the life and work of photographer Wilhelm Von Gloeden --in production), he writes art essays for magazines such as Art Text, Art Papers, Art On Paper, and books such as Intertidal: Vancouver Art & Artists (MuHKA/Belkin Gallery, 2005), Vancouver Art & Economies (Artspeak/Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007), and Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs (Vancouver Art Gallery/Douglas & McIntyre, 2007), nominated for the 2008 City of Vancouver Book Award. A forthcoming work, 8x10, will be published by Doubleday Canada in 2009.

Sponsored by the Dept. of Creative Writing and the VFA.

Kate Braid : The Portal Launch
Tuesday, April 6 at 4 pm in the Arbutus Room

Kate BraidKate will also read at The Roxy on Gabriola Island-- Date and Time TBA

In the course of working as a secretary, childcare worker, lumber piler, journeywoman carpenter, construction contractor and a construction and creative writing instructor, Kate Braid has written five books of poetry that have won or been nominated for various prizes including the Pat Lowther Award, the BC Book Prize, the Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Prize and the Vancity Book Prize. She has also co-edited with Sandy Shreve, the first book of Canadian form poetry, In Fine Form. She has published three books of non-fiction and her poems and personal essays have been widely published and anthologised. She has recently moved to the heart of West End Vancouver.
Braid will be reading from two books: A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems (Caitlin Publishing, 2008) explores an imagined correspondence between Glenn Gould, one of Canada’s great musicians, and an admiring fan who, in struggling with her sudden loss of hearing in one ear, finds comfort in Gould’s music, especially as he plays Bach. The second book, Turning Left to the Ladies (Palimpsest, 2009) is a wry, sometimes humorous, sometimes meditative look at one woman’s relationship to her craft, and the people she met along the way.

Sponsored by the Canada Council.