We’ll have a Symosium on Toronto Poet Ted Plantos, ‘the Cabbagetown Kid’, hosted by Julie McNeill and featuring a presentation on Ted’s place in the pantheon of Canadian People’s Poetry by academic Terry Barker. Kent Bowman, Peter Rowe, Mick Burrs, Carol Malyon and other friends and comrades of Ted will be holding an informal round table of anecdotes about Ted and his important literary contributions with the seminal Parliament Street Library Poetry Readings and Writers’ Quarterly Magazine.
Place: The William Shannon Room
The Marmora Public Library Building (traffic lights at the intersection of Highways #7 and 14.
12:30 to 2:30 pm Saturday, July 31st
Photo of Ted Plantos taken by Peter Rowe
ANOTHER DAM POETRY READING will be held at 4 pm on the small island in the middle of the Marmora Dam on the Crowe River. Musicians Morley Ellis and Kent Bowman will start the event. Allan Briesmaster will introduce new poetry collections by Kent Bowman and Quinte poet R. D. Roy. R.D. will then intro a new collection by Montreal poet Katherine Beeman. Anna Plesums will also launch a new collection.
After the music and the book launchings, a round robin group reading will give every poet attending a chance to read their work to a very knowledgeable and appreciative gathering.
Some limited rough camping is available in the Marmora area. All events are free & we encourage everyone’s participation. There are two excellent B&B’s in Marmora, and many small motels along Highway #7 for accomodation.