Sandy Pool‘s latest Trillium-nominated collection, Undark: An Oratorio, gets a thorough and insightful review on Open Book Toronto. Reviewer Alessandro Porco, delves into the historical, political, visual and structural substance of this collection, noting the complexity with which Pool approaches the compelling subject matter of the Radium Women of the early 1900s. The review concludes [...]
Nightwood author John Barton joins the 9th Annual Sweetwater 905 Arts Festival set on the sprawling rural BC ranch of Emilie and Larry Mattson in Rolla, BC. Barton will read from his selected poems, For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin, on Saturday, June 15 in the Poets Hour at 5 PM. Other [...]
Celebrate with the Trillium Book Award finalists in T.O. Please join us the evening of June 17,2013 at a Public Authors Reading Event at the Toronto Reference Library. Nightwood poet Sandy Pool will be reading from her nominated collection, Undark and will be joined by several other shortlisted authors for Trillium Book Awards. There is [...]
Join Jay Ruzesky, whose ancestor Roald Amundsen was the first person to reach the South Pole, as he reads from his new memoir about following in Amundsen’s Footsteps 100 years later, In Antarctica, at Laughing Oyster Bookshop in Courtenay on Sunday, June 9. For more information or to reserve your copy, contact Laughing Oyster at [...]