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Bookends by FFWD Staff Passionate poets coming to Pages The poetry theme at Pages on Kensington continues this week as two award-winning Canadian poets hook up for a Calgary appearance. Gregory Scofield of Vancouver will read from his latest and fourth collection of poetry, I knew Two Metis Women, and George Elliot Clarke of Toronto will read from his most significant literary work in almost a decade, Beatrice Chancey, on Thursday, June 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Pages on Kensington. Clarke is best known for his award-winning Whylah Falls, and his adaptations of it have been heard on CBC Radio, seen as a stage play, and produced as a feature CBC television movie, One Heart Broken Into Song. In his new work, Beatrice Chancey, set in Nova Scotia in 1801, the character of the title is the daughter of a black slave woman who was raped by her white master, and she later suffers the same fate herself. Scofield has always been inspired by personal experiences, winning the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for The Gathering: Stones for the Medicine Wheel (1993), which applied the sacred teachings of the Medicine Wheel to the harsh reality of life on the skids. I Knew Two Metis Women reflects on his childhood and the influence of this Metis mother and aunt. Scofield’s autobiography, Thunder Through My Veins, will be published this fall. The reading follows another poetry duo at Pages – Gary Geddes and Eugene MacNamara read on Friday, May 28 at 7:30 p.m.

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