Poetry London with David O'Meara and Gregory Scofield

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - 7:30pm

Landon Branch Library
167 Wortley Rd
London, ON
N6C 3P6

Don't miss an evening of poetry in the continuing 2011 Poetry London season with guest David O'Meara. David will also be joined by poet Gregory Scofield.

All are welcome, free admission with book sale to follow.

Prior to the reading, Michelle Doege will be facilitating a writing workshop at 6:30pm. No registration required.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

David O’Meara’s The Vicinity (Brick Books, 2003) won the Archibald Lampman Award and was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Storm Still (McGill-Queens Press, 1999) was short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Award, and most recently, Noble Gas, Penny Black (Brick Books, 2008), won the Lampman-Scott Award. Born and raised in Pembroke, Ontario, he has lived in Ottawa, Vancouver, and Montreal, as well as Japan and South Korea.

Gregory Scofield’s fifth collection of poems, Kipocihkan: Poems New & Selected (Nightwood Editions) was published in 2009, and both I Knew Two Metis Women with companion CD (Gabriel
Dumont Institute), and Love Medicine and One Song (Kegedonce Press) were re-released in the same year. He is the subject of a feature-length documentary, Singing Home The Bones: A Poet Becomes Himself (The Maystreet Group, 2007), and he currently lives in Maple Ridge, B.C.

More info: http://www.poetrylondon.ca/.