SMU Reading Series: Stephanie Bolster & Susan Gillis
Stephanie Bolster’s most recent collection, A Page From the Wonders of Life on Earth (Brick, 2011), expands upon her achievement as one of the finest poets of her generation. After her first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, winner of the 1998 Governor General’s Award for Poetry, she published two other collections, Two Bowls of Milk and Pavilion. She has also edited three books, most recently Penned: Zoo Poems. Raised in Burnaby, BC, she has taught creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal since 2000.“…a surety of vision…an insider’s eye for the telling aberrant detail…an impeccable ear…”– Judith Fitzgerald
Susan Gillis engages with poetry in many ways, including being one fourth of a quartet of poets known as Yoko’s Dogs, who write collaborative poems in the spirit of Japanese renku. She grew up in Halifax, lived in Victoria, and now teaches at John Abbot College in Montreal. Her first books of poetry were Swimming Among the Ruins and Volta, winner of the 2003 Quebec Writers’ Federation’s A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. This year she has published both a chapbook, Twenty Views of the Lachine Rapids (Gaspereau), and a new collection, The Rapids (Brick).
“At the heart of The Rapids is a lucidly articulate intelligence continuously on the move, taking unexpected turns, opening up multiple new perspectives on every phenomenon – architecture, romance, the Russian novel, St. Jerome, the rapids…” – Roo Borson
Time: Friday, November 23rd @ 7p
Location: Saint Mary’s University – The Atrium, Room 101, 5940 Inglis St.
Admission: Free
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Location: Saint Mary’s University – The Atrium, Room 101, 5940 Inglis St.
Admission: Free