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VERTIGO VOICES, Spring 2008
This will be the fifth year of literary readings at Gallery Vertigo in downtown Vernon. It really has become a great, informal series and a strong way to feature local writers and students of writing.
The readings will start at 7:30pm on Wednesday evenings and everyone is welcome to attend.
Wednesday, February 6
Ken Hamm - songwriter/guitarist
public $20 students $10
Wednesday, February 20
Alex Hawley
Alix Hawley: also teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Okanagan College...Alix did her Honors BA and MA at UBC, then A PhD in Victorian Lit (specializing in Virginia Woolf) at Oxford University, then an MFA from East Anglia in Creative Writing where she worked with Andrew Motion...Alix' first book of fiction, of short stories, called The Old Familiar will be published by Thistledown Press this coming fall...
Wednesday, March 5
Susan Lent and John Lent
poems and songs
Wednesday, March 19
English 126 and 216 Creative Writing Students
Wednesday, March 26
Gary Geddes
Gary Geddes is one of Canada's foremost poets and foremost antholigists. I used his book, Twentieth Century Poetry & Poetics (Oxford University Press) for the past twenty-five years, in all of my Canadian Literature and Creative Writing classes. But he has published over twenty books of award-winning poery, beginning with works like Letter From The Master Of Horse to his most recent, award-winning book about the collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge in Vancouver in the late forties, a book called Falseworks.
Gary is part of that Canadian poetry generation who come just after Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton and Al Purdy and PK Page. Along with Dennis Lee, Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje and bp Nichol, Gary's poetry and his incredible dedication to articulating twentieth century poetry, really leads to an enormous surge in Canadian nationalism and Canadian poetry in the early seventies. Gary Geddes built up the Creative Writing Program at Concordia University; he was, most recently, Professor of Canadian Culture at Western Washington University; excerpts from Falsework were just performed in London, England. He is also famous in non-fiction, especially for a book called Sailing Home which won the America's Best Book Award and the Gabriela Mistral Prize. His last book of non-fiction is called Kingdom Of Ten Thousand Things.
It will be exciting to have Gary Geddes read here in this Okanagan College Reading Series. In the fall of 2008, Gary Geddes will also be the sixth Writer-In-Residence at the Okanagan College/Mackie Lake House Writer-In-Resident project.
ALL READINGS AT GALLERY VERTIGO, IN DOWNTOWN VERNON
PLEASE NOTE THE EXCEPTIONS IN VENUE AND TIMES
DOORS OPEN AT 7:00pm AND READINGS START AT 7:30pm IN THE GALLERY VERTIGO DOWNTOWN READINGS. |
