Copies are printed and ready to go at $15 a piece. It looks pretty. (Admittedly I may be a biased speaker but Monique Desnoyers did a lovely job of visuals for sections.) been shed bore (Chaudiere Books, 2010) is being launched at 5 p.m. with The Dusty Owl Reading Series at Swizzles.
Swizzles is queer friendly and family friendly with a limited food menu and a bar. It’s downtown and downstairs from the Green Papaya, 246 Queen Street, Ottawa.
The music will be bluegrass by Call Me Katie with guitar, cello, bass, violin, [mandolin] and vocals. And fellow Sage Hiller Bernadette Wagner is joining me to open the reading. Her poetry collection book, This hot place is nominated for the First Book Award in the Saskatchewan Book Awards.
I’ll have a sparkly homemade catapult (decorated with words from the text) on hand to toss goodies (candies, nuts, cranberries, wasabi peas, and of course, my good friend chocolate).
It should be loads of fun.