Our Halifax location, also known as Bookmark II, is situated on the corner of Spring Garden Rd and South Park St in beautiful downtown Halifax. We’re directly across from the Public Gardens, and within walking distance to a number of fantastic stores, restaurants and cafes.
Make sure to stop in and say hello to Mike and the rest of our staff, and if you’re from out of town, send us a note or your special orders online!
Hope to see you soon!
About Warren:
Warren Heiti is currently a doctoral candidate in philosophy at Dalhousie University. His research interests include ancient Greek philosophy, ethics, ecological ethics, and lyric philosophy. He has taught sessionally at Dalhousie University and St. Mary’s University, and has facilitated a poetry workshop at the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia.
About Heather:
Heather Jessup’s poetry, fiction, reviews, and interviews have been published in journals across Canada and the U.S. including The Malahat Review, The Denver Quarterly, andPRISM International. Her first novel, The Lightning Field, will be published with Gaspereau Press in Fall 2011. She is completing her dissertation on contemporary Canadian literature and visual art in the English Department at the University of Toronto.
Time: Tuesday, December 6th @ 7p
Location: Room 101, The Atrium, 923 Robie St.
Admission: Free
Steven Heighton’s most recent books are the novel Every Lost Country (May 2010) and the poetry collection Patient Frame (April 2010). He is also the author of the novel Afterlands, which appeared in six countries, was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and was a “best of year” selection in ten publications in Canada, the USA, and the UK. The book has recently been optioned for film. He has also published The Shadow Boxer—a Canadian bestseller and a Publishers’ Weekly Book of the Year for 2002—which appeared in five countries. His other fiction books are the story collections Flight Paths of the Emperor and On earth as it is, while his poetry collections include The Ecstasy of Skeptics and The Address Book.
-From the Author’s site
Time: Tuesday, November 22nd @ 7pm
Location: Sobey Building, Rm 165, Saint Mary’s University
Admission: Free
Alex Pierce’s voice can be heard echoing down the long corridors of memory and myth. It’s not that these poems live in the past; instead, they manage to bring it back to life with uncanny sensual details and an urgency that makes you realize some fires never really go out. The book’s scope is wide: beautifully crafted family reminiscences; Bach and Beethoven; Raphael and Goltzius; Shakespeare; the Greek Myths and the fate of the Romanovs. Vox Humana is all lilt and discipline in its courtliness, its surrender to the theatre of the moment at its most alive.
Time: Tuesday, November 8th @ 7p
Location: Sobey Building, Rm 165, Saint Mary’s University
Admission: Free
Join a panel of Halifamous readers as they argue for their pick from this year’s Giller short list. Special guests Don Connolly of CBC’s Information Morning; Poet Laureate Tanya Davis; author Sue Goyette; executive director of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia Nate Crawford; and Mike Hamm of the independent bookstore Bookmark will defend their choices. The Scotiabank Giller Prize will be announced on November 8.
Time: Tuesday, November 1st @ 7p
Location: Spring Garden Rd Public Library
Admission: Free
In August Gale, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Barbara Walsh—who has interviewed killers, bad cops, and crooked politicians in the course of her career—faces the most challenging story of her lifetime: asking her father about his childhood pain. In the process, she takes us on two heartrending odysseys: one into a deadly Newfoundland hurricane and the lives of schooner fishermen who relied on God and the wind to carry them home; the other, into a squall stirred by a man with many secrets: a grandfather who remained a mystery until long after his death.
Sixty-eight years after the hurricane that claimed several of her ancestors, Walsh searches for memories of the August gale and the grandfather who abandoned her dad as a young boy. Together, she and her father journey to Newfoundland to learn about the 1935 storm, and along the way her dad begins to talk about the man he cannot forgive. As she recreates the scenes of the violent hurricane and a small boy’s tender past, she holds onto a hidden desire: to heal her father and redeem the grandfather she has never met.
Time: Tuesday, November 1st @ 7pm
Location: Keshen Goodman Public Library
Admission: Free
