Celebrate the release of Groundwork with Bryan Prince

Thursday, November 3, 2011 - 7:00pm

Bryan Prince Bookseller
1060 King Street West
Hamilton, ON
L8S 1L7

Bryan Prince Bookseller and Biblioasis are pleased to announce a very special literary evening with Amanda Jernigan reading from her first poetry collection, Groundwork.

Free admission but please RSVP as space is limited.

For further information or to RSVP, please contact:
Bryan Prince Bookseller 905-528-4508 or staff@princebooks.net

Amanda Jernigan is a poet, playwright, essayist, and editor. Her works have been published in Canada, the United States and Germany. She currently resides in Hamilton with her husband, artist John Haney, and their amazing dog Ruby. Amanda’s poetry is highly respected within the community of poets but with this new book, the time has come for her talent to be recognized and enjoyed by a wider audience.

Groundwork is Amanda Jernigan’s first published poetry collection. Few poets today are versed in the archetypes that inform the European tradition, and even fewer can manipulate them with grace that Amanda achieves. The three sequences of Groundwork comprise a sophisticated reworking of European myth on the order of Yeats’ "The Tower". The first is situated by an archaeological dig in modern-day Tunisia, the second by the Garden of Eden, the third by the waters and islands of Homer’s Odyssey. Together they form a devastating critique of contemporary aesthetics.