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The Grey Borders Reading Series is proud to announce GB#19.
Please join us for a very special evening of literature:
Tuesday 25 November 2008, doors open at 7:30 pm
David Seymour
Karen Solie
Paul Dutton
Location: The Niagara Artists' Centre, 354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines
Time: Doors open at 7:30 pm, readings begin shortly thereafter
Cost: no cover, donations encouraged
Other details: This is a licensed event by the LCBO
More details here: greyborders.blogspot.com
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Full bios:
David Seymour was born in Campbellton, New Brunswick and was raised beside the Niagara Escarpment in Milton, Ontario. In the past twelve years he has lived in Hamilton, Ontario, Leith, Scotland, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Toronto, Ontario, and Rosarito Beach, Mexico. During that time he has worked as a security guard, built in-ground pools, travelled through Europe, dish-pigged, acquired two academic degrees, lectured and led tutorials for English survey courses, taught a creative writing workshop, worked as a video store clerk, a book store clerk, proofread, was a staff writer and editorial coordinator for a magazine company, freelanced as a writer, played an extra, photo-doubled for Russell Crowe, learned to set sails on a tall ship, and worked as the production assistant for a casting director on numerous films. He currently lives in Toronto.
http://www.brickbooks.ca/?page_id=3&bookid=63
http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/seymour.htm
Karen Solie's first book of poetry, Short Haul Engine (2001), won the 2002 DOROTHY LIVESAY Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award, and the ReLit Award. One reviewer observed that her title functioned well as a comment on the lyric poem itself. However, the title more obviously alludes to the book's dominant imagery of engines, trucks, and cars, including their function and symbolism in the endless open distances of the Canadian prairies. Though these are lyric poems, they more often evade sentiment and nostalgia through images that are precise and mechanical.
Karen Solie's second book of poetry, Modern and Normal (2001), was shortlisted for the 2006 Trillium Book Award and longlisted for the ReLit Award. She has confessed to being interested in how language often "gives itself away," how seemingly innocent language can resonate with dark, psychological innuendo. From this interest, Solie includes six examples of "found poetry" taken directly from such sources as a bibliography from the British Columbia Provincial Museum, to math text-books, to the writing on beer cans on Air Canada flights. Other poems contain sketches of narratives or snippets of suggestive overheard conversations from a diverse range of settings across the continent. Modern and Normal presents a contemporary version of the lyric that evades the maudlin by presenting tightly-composed and wickedly wry snapshots of the strangeness of contemporary life in North America.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0010516
http://www.brickbooks.ca/?page_id=5&authorid=100
Paul Dutton is a poet, novelist, essayist, and oral sound artist who is
internationally renowned for both his literary and musical performances.
Throughout the last four decades he has published, recorded, and performed
his work in various contexts, solo and collaborative, in print and film, on
TV, radio, and the Web. He has taken his art to festivals, clubs, concert
halls, and classrooms throughout Canada and across the United States,
Europe, and South America.
Dutton¹s artistic focus continues to be the
exploration of consciousness and perception through the creation of
multisensory works, employing written poetry and prose, visual poetry, and
the sonic dimensions of language and oral expression.
He was a member of the
legendary Four Horsemen sound poetry quartet (19701988), along with Rafael
Barreto-Rivera, Steve McCaffery, and the late bpNichol. He joins his
soundsinging oralities to John Oswald¹s alto sax and Michael Snow¹s piano
and synthesizer in the free-improvisation band CCMC (1989 to the present).
He recently formed Quintet à Bras in company with two French poets and two
French instrumentalists. The most recent of his six books is a novel,
Several Women Dancing (Mercury Press, 2002). The latest of his five solo
recordings is the CD Oralizations (DAME Records, 2005).
http://www.actuellecd.com/en/bio/dutton_pa/
http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/dutton.htm
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