A B Reading Series with Anne Simpson, Susan Elmslie & Colin Morton

Friday, May 6, 2011 - 8:30pm

Gallery 101
301 1/2 Bank Street
Ottawa, ON
K2P 1X7

Don't miss readings by three great authors:

Anne Simpson has written three books of poetry, among them Loop and Quick. Her two novels, Canterbury Beach and Falling, were followed by a book of essays, The Marram Grass: Poetry and Otherness. Her poetry has won various awards, including the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her fiction has been awarded the Journey Prize and the Dartmouth Fiction Award; it has also been long-listed for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She has been Writer-in-Residence at the University of New Brunswick, Artist-in-Residence at the Medical Humanities Program at Dalhousie University, and Writer-in-Residence at the Saskatoon Public Library.

Born in Brampton, Ontario, Susan Elmslie has lived in Montreal since 1993. Her collection, I, Nadja, and Other Poems (Brick, 2006), won the A.M. Klein Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize, the Pat Lowther Award and a ReLit Award. She won Arc’s Poem of the Year prize in 2007 and has been a Hawthornden Fellow. Her poems have appeared in journals, anthologies, and in a prize-winning chapbook, When Your Body Takes to Trembling. She holds a PhD in English (specialization in Canadian literature) from McGill and teaches English and Creative Writing at Dawson College.

Colin Morton has published ten books of poetry and fiction, was a member of the 1980s performance poetry group First Draft, and co-produced the animated sound-poetry film Primiti Too Taa. He has twice won the Archibald Lampman Poetry Award, and his series of poems on artist Kurt Schwitters received a CBC award. Colin’s most recent books are The Hundred Cuts (BuschekBooks), The Local Cluster (Pecan Grove Press), and The Cabbage of Paradise: The Merzbook and other poems (Seraphim Editions).
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Doors: 8:00 and show starts at 8:30pm.

Cost: $7 at the door ($5 students).

More info: http://abseries.org/.