Grey Borders Reading Series presents Erin Moure, Gary Barwin and more

Friday, April 27, 2012 - 7:00pm

Niagara Artists Centre
354 St.Paul Street
St. Catharines, ON
L2R 3N2

Grey Borders Reading Series welcomes Erín Moure, Oana A., Gregory Betts and Gary Barwin to the Niagara Artists Centre.

Erín Moure writes in English, multilingually. She also translates poetry from French, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish, including Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person by Alberto Caeiro and Fernando Pessoa. Her works have received the Governor General's Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, two A.M. Klein Prizes and were shortlisted three times for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her recent books include O Resplandor (Anansi, 2010), My Beloved Wager (NeWest, 2009) and a reissued Pillage Laud (BookThug, 2011). The Unmemntioable (Anansi) is out in February, 2012.

Some of the strands in Oana Avasilichioaei’s work traverse geography and public space (feria: a poempark, 2008), textual architecture, orality and multilingualism (We, Beasts, upcoming 2012), translation and collaborative performance (Expeditions of a Chimæra, co-written with Erín Moure, 2009). Living in Montreal, recent projects include The Islands (Wolsak & Wynn, 2011) which is a translation of Quebecoise poet Louise Cotnoir, “The Mapping Issue” (co-edited with Kathleen Brown for Dandelion Magazine) and transforming text into performative, oral work.

Gary Barwin is a Hamilton writer, composer and performer. His publications include five poetry collections such as The Porcupinity of the Stars (Coach House), The Obvious Flap (Bookthug.) and Franzlations: the Imaginary Kafka Parables (New Stars); and two fiction collections. He was co-winner of the 2010 bpNichol Chapbook Award for Inverting the Deer (serif of nottingham). He was awarded the Emerging Artist Award in Literature by the Ontario Arts Council in 1999. He was a co-winner of Harbourfront's the Battle of the Bards and will perform at the 2011 International Festival of Authors. His writing and visual texts have appeared in hundreds of magazines, chapbooks, and anthologies.

Gregory Betts is a poet, editor, essayist and teacher born in Vancouver, raised in Toronto and now living in St. Catharines. He is the author of five books of poetry including If Language (BookThug 2005), The Others Raisd in Me (Pedlar Press 2009) and The Obvious Flap (with Gary Barwin, BookThug 2011).