Poetry London presents John Barton and Donna Spector

Wednesday, April 4, 2012 - 7:30pm

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

Poetry London presents Canadian poet John Barton and American poet Donna Spector.

John has published nine books of poetry, including Hypothesis (Anansi, 2001) and Hymn (Brick, 2009). In 2006, Buschek Books published a bilingual edition of his third collection, West of Darkness: Emily Carr, a Self-Portrait. Jack Pine Press and Nightwood Editions will respectively publish Balletomane: The Program Notes of Lincoln Kirstein (a limited-edition chapbook) and For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin (a selected poems) in 2012. His poetry has won three Archibald Lampman Awards, an Ottawa Book Award, a CBC Literary Award and a National Magazine Award. Since 1980, his poems have appeared in Canada, the United States, Australia, India, and the United Kingdom. He co-edited Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay-Male Poets, which was published by Arsenal Pulp in 2007. He lives in Victoria, where he edits The Malahat Review.

Donna is a playwright as well as a poet. Her plays have appeared Off Broadway, regionally and in Canada, Ireland and Greece. Her play, Golden Ladder, was published in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2002 (Smith & Kraus) A member of Dramatists Guild and Poets & Writers, she received two National Endowment for the Humanities grants to study in Greece. Her recent poetry collection, The Woman Who Married Herself (Evening Street Press, 2010) was a Sinclair Poetry Prize finalist. Her poems, plays, stories and monologues have been published in many literary magazines and anthologies, including The Greensboro Review, Poet & Critic, Sycamore Review, Gaia, Notre Dame Review and The Paterson Literary Review.