| Fresh poetry all week long
Ashok Mathur (until recently a Calgary author, and recently profiled in these very pages) is in the running for a major international literary prize. Arsenal Pulp Press just announced that Mathur's second novel, The Short, Happy Life of Harry Kumar, has been shortlisted for the Best Book competition of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Canada-Caribbean region.
Vancouver poet Roy Miki reads along with Louis Cabri at Pages this week. The Ottawa-born Cabri teaches at Alberta College of Art and Design here in Calgary, while studying at the University of Pennsylvania. That's one reason he's been able to curate the PhillyTalks series, one of his many curatorial/ editorial/ critical projects. After a series of small press publications, Cabri's now launching a major poetry collection entitled The Mood Embosser (Coach House Books). Editor, teacher and poet Miki's new book is called Surrender (Mercury Press). The reading is on March 7 at 7:30 p.m.
The next day sees more poetry at Pages, with readings from Catherine Owen and Erin Bidlake. That's March 8 at 7:30 p.m. Then next Tuesday, March 12, private eye Wendy Morton of B.C. and poetry Olympian Sheri-D Wilson will both read new work.
You know that award that Ashok Mathur is shortlisted for, mentioned above? Calgary novelist Pearl Luke won that very same award in 2001 for her novel Burning Ground. Luke reads at the University of Calgary on Thursday, March 14 at 11 a.m. (Science Theatre 131, on the ground floor of the big old Social Sciences building, near the LRT stop). |
