From our friends at Poetry London:
It's time to welcome a new season of fantastic poetry readings hosted by Poetry London! The first Poetry London reading of 2011 features Jeanette Lynes and Soraya Peerbaye. The event takes place this Wednesday, January 26th at 7:30 p.m. at the Landon Public Library.
Prior to the readings, Poetry London's Michelle Doege will facilitate a writing workshop and discussion of poetry by the evening's featured poets and two workshop participants. The reading and workshop are free and open to all members of the public, and offer encouragement to developing writers, as well as providing an opportunity for writers in the group to exchange work and discuss poems by that night’s visiting poets. Those interested are encouraged to attend the workshop at 6:30 pm. No registration is required.
About the featured poets:
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, made the “The Globe 100” list of most influential books and was podcasted on CBC Radio in 2010.
Soraya Peerbaye's first collection, Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (Goose Lane Editions, 2009), was shortlisted 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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