Bywords' John Newlove Poetry Award Reading

Monday, October 25, 2010 - 6:30pm

Ottawa International Writers Festival
15 Aylmer Avenue
Southminister United Church
Ottawa, ON
K1S 3X1

Launch of "The Glass Jaw" by Marcus McCann, the recipient of the 2009 John Newlove Poetry Award. With readings by this year's honourable mentions and award recipient to be announced at the reading, and music by the Companionship Registry.

"This year's winner of the John Newlove Poetry Award stood out from a strong field of finalists for its rich execution of focalized perception and its economical rendering of character through the use of terse, gritty idiom." Jason Camlot, 2010 Bywords John Newlove Poetry Award Judge

The annual John Newlove Poetry award, launched in the fall of 2004, commemorates the honest, poignant and well-written poetry of John Newlove, an Ottawa resident for almost twenty years and poet who died in 2003.

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BIOS:

Marcus McCann was born in Hamilton and lived in Ottawa from 2001-2009. His first full-length collection, Soft Where (Chaudiere Books, 2009) was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award. McCann is the author of seven or eight other chapbooks, most recently Town in a Long Day of Leaving (above/ground, 2010.) He's a former host of CKCU's Literary Landscapes and the Naughty Thoughts Book Club, and he organizes the Transgress Festival in Ottawa each October. He now lives in Toronto.

the Companionship Registry

The Companionship Registry is "an allegory for what transpired", but is also the current solo musical outlet for James Missen. Missen is an 11-year Ottawa resident who has written, recorded, and performed his own songs for nearly 20 years. www.myspace.com/thecompanionshipregistry