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| BOOKENDS Pages on Kensington's Authors Out Loud series really takes off this week, presenting not only Russell Banks, but also Daphne Marlatt, Carole Glasser, Richard Harrison, Claire Harris and the entire poetry class taught by Fred Wah. (Sit yourself down - this might take a minute.) Atom Egoyan's film of his novel The Sweet Hereafter has gained Banks some celebrity, especially in Canada. But he's been mapping lines of significance in contemporary life for years with acclaimed (and sometimes funny) novels like Continental Drift, Affliction, and Rule of the Bone. He reads this week from Cloudsplitter, his new novel about the American abolitionist John Brown, on Friday, April 3 at Memorial Park Library. Canadian author Marlatt, originally scheduled to visit on March 12 and 13, returns to discuss MotherTalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka, which she edited. Maybe she'll read from her 1997 novel Taken, as well. She appears this Saturday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Pages on Kensington. filling station magazine and the U of C's English Department are co-sponsoring this reading. Toronto-based poet Glasser (1997 Governor General nominee) reads from her new book In Cannon Cave on Wednesday, April 8 at 7:30 p.m. at Pages. Calgary poets Harrison and Harris will "ride shotgun." Presumably that involves reading, though you never see anyone on them stagecoaches reading poetry. Mostly they squint, maybe chew a little. We'll see. In case you wondered what gets done in a university poetry writing course, Wah's students are making themselves accountable to you, the reading public, with their Oral Anthology 1998. On Tuesday, April 7 at 7:30 p.m. (at guess where? Pages), you're bound to hear some innovative work. That's all from Authors Out Loud for this week. But watch for Robert Kroetsch and Linda McQuaig next week. In other news.... Can a white boy from the Crowsnest take up his sax and play the blues? Can he write poems about whether a white boy from the Crowsnest can take up his sax and play the blues? Does he have the lungs to alternate performing the poems and playing the sax? (Yes, to that one.) Find out when Black Market Theatre presents White Blues: Performance Poetry by Jonathon Wilcke. The tjsnow performance ensemble will be there too. At Black Market Theatre (408-604 1st Street SW) on Saturday, April 11. It starts at 8 p.m., tickets are available at the door, and you can learn more at 263-6939. GreenStreet restaurant (815 - 7th Avenue SW - it's leafy) is the venue for Cecelia Frey's reading on Thursday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. Frey is April's writer-in-residence at the Alexandra Writers' Centre. For information on her workshops there call 264-4730. The Writers Guild of Alberta presents its next Sunday Afternoon Writers Cabaret on Sunday, April 5 with reading by Peter Oliva, the 1998-1999 Writer-in-Residence at the U of C; Rebecca Bradley, whose third novel of the Fill fantasy trilogy should be out in August; and Christopher Wiseman, recipient of many awards, including the Alberta Achievement Award for Excellence in Service to the Literary Arts. The cabaret takes place at Michelangelo's (1401 - 11 Street SW from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. |