Arc sponsored the Lampman Award for National Capital region collections of poetry published last year. The short-list did a reading at Collected Works.
Cheese and so on at Collected Works. Someone made homemade cookies.
Dave was ready at the sound controls. Some social time before the reading.
This year’s Diane Brebner Award winner Lauren Turner read a few poems.
Mike Blouin read from his dark and comic historical fiction book length poems of Alden Nowlan and Johnny Cash in Wore Down Press
rob mclennan read from his book Glengarry about the landscapes and cosmic and bodily memories of the Eastern Ontario county.
Sandra Ridley read from her book-length poem of a morphine-addled captive/patient in Post-Apothecary .
Thelma Poirier for Rock Creek Blues (Regina: Coteau Books, 2011) was also short-listed but did not attend the reading.
There are videos of the event.
The announcement will be made at the Ottawa Book Awards at the Shenkman Center Oct 24th.
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It’s great to see such a similar community doing similar things there as here – readers and writers of the world unite!