Toronto Launch - Quartet 2008
Thursday, April 10, 2008 @ 7:00 PM
Toronto launch of Quartet 2008 with University of Toronto Bookstore as our bookseller.
The Books
she is reading her blanket with her hands by Sharron Proulx-Turner
Proulx-Turner offers a sensitive compendium of poems each dedicated to a friend or relative. The result is a deep insight into the poet’s life and philosophy and her Aboriginal experiences and traditions.
Autopsy of a Turvy World by Sheri-D Wilson
Sheri-D Wilson, winner of the 2005 WGA Stephan G Stephansson award for best book of poetry, presents a scalpel-sharp view of 21st century afflictions such as noise pollution, airport security, and fast food encounters. A shocking and wildly funny book.
Water Strider by Karen Hofmann
An elegant first book dealing with tensions, ambiguities, imperfect relationships, language, memory and longing. Don McKay says in his cover quote: “Probing, spare, acutely angled and scrupulously nuanced, Karen Hofmann’s poems are as surprising as the remarkable arthropods invoked by the title poem.”
Wiser Pills by Richard Stevenson
The edict of better living through chemistry had sixties boomer kids dropping this, smoking that, snorting something else, or poking it directly into their veins to grow taller, get smaller… Richard Stevenson’s twenty-first collection of poetry is a rollicking and uninhibited portrayal of adolescent life, middle-aged regret, and points in between.
Location
Edward Day Gallery, 952 Queen Street W., Toronto
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