Poetry London with Jeanette Lynes & Soraya Peerbaye

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 7:30pm

Landon branch library
167 Wortley Village
London, ON
N6C 3P6

Poetry London is pleased to present featured poets Jeanette Lynes (Bliss Carman Poetry Prize) and Soraya Peerbaye (shortlisted for Gerald Lampert Memorial Award).

ABOUT THE AUTHORS:

Jeanette Lynes is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently, The New Blue Distance (Wolsak and Wynn, 2009). Her earlier collection, ,Left Fields (Wolsak and Wynn, 2003), was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. She also received the Bliss Carman Poetry Prize in 2001. Her novel, The Factory Voice (Coteau Books, 2009), was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2009, made the “The Globe 100” list of most influential books for 2009, and in 2010, will be podcast on CBC Radio.

Soraya Peerbaye's first collection, Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (Goose Lane Editions, 2009), was short listed for the Gerald Lampert Award. Her work has also been published in Other Voices, Prairie Fire, and The New Quarterly, and anthologized in Red Silk: An Anthology of South Asian Canadian Women Poets. Born in London, Soraya now lives in Toronto, where she works in cultural administration and is also a translator and editor.
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There is also a poetry workshop 6:30 pm with Michelle Doege. Poetry reading begins at 7:30 pm. Landon Branch Library. Books for sale before and after the reading. Admission is free and all are welcome!

For more information, please phone the Landon Branch Library at (519) 439-6240 or email poetrylondon@yahoo.ca.