The A B Series presents Patrick White

Friday, November 25, 2011 - 7:30pm

Avant Garde Bar
135 1/2 Besserer St
Ottawa, ON
K1N 6A7

Patrick White is former Poet Laureate of Ottawa. He is the author of eight books of poetry: Poems (Soft Press), God in the Rafters (Borealis), Stations (Commoner’s Books), Homage to Victor Jara, (Steel Rail Press), Seventeen Odes (Fiddlehead Books), Orpheus on Highbeam, (Anthos Books), Habitable Planets, New and Selected Poems (Cormorant Books), and The Benjamin Chee Chee Elegies, (General Store Publishing).

Winner of the Archibald Lampman Award, Canadian Literature Award, Benny Nicholas Award for Creative Writing, he was also a runner-up for the Milton Acorn People’s Poet Award. He is founding editor and publisher of Anthos, a Journal of the Arts, Anthos Books, and producer-host of Radio Anthos, a popular literary radio show.

Admission is FREE: donations accepted

George Woodcock wrote of his Selected Poems in the Ottawa Citizen: "He promises to be one our best and best respected poets." Sharon Drache, in the Kingston Whig Standard: "He might well win the Nobel Prize one day in his own inimitable way." And Orbis, (London, England), has said of his work: "His images are strong, lyrical, moving. He dares and achieves."

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