An Evening with Yvonne Blomer and Cathy Converse presented by the Sidney and Peninsula Literary Society

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Friday, September 21st, 2018
7:00 PM to 8:45 PM

Writer, critic, teacher and poet, Yvonne Blomer is the current Poet Laureate of Victoria, BC. She will read from her new book Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur in which she tells of her experiences and impressions as she and her husband explored Vietnam, Malaysia, Laos and Thailand by bicycle. She has also recently anthologized and edited Refugium: Poems for the Pacific an anthology of prize-winning BC poets.

Cathy Converse writes historical biography with a focus on exceptional women. Her newest book, Against the Current: The Remarkable Life of Agnes Deans Cameron tells the story of Agnes (b. 1863) who was BC’s first female high school teacher and principal, an internationally published writer, one of the most significant writers of her time, itinerant traveller and promoter of western immigration.

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