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Kootenay folk, this Friday we have a treat for you. Victoria poet, Yvonne Blomer, is going to be in town and she's reading at my house!
7 PM
Ted and Linda's Place
932 Columbia Road
Castlegar
(really Ootischenia)
(250) 365-7434
Yvonne was born in Zimbabwe and came to Canada when she was two years old. Her first collection a broken mirror, fallen leaf was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Yvonne has also published two chap booksLandscapes and Home: Ghazals (Leaf Press, 2011) and Bicycle Brand Journey (JackPine Press, 2012). In 2012 The Book of Places (Black Moss Press) was released. Yvonne is the co-editor of Poems from Planet Earth (Leaf Press, 2013) out of the Planet Earth Poetry reading series, of which she is the Artistic Director. In 2014 her third full collection of poems As if a Raven was released with Palimpsest Press. In it Yvonne explores creation, destruction and beauty through birds and biblical references.
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| Reading from As If A Raven at the 2014 Cascadia Poetry Festival in Seattle |
I'll be reading some poems, too, including new work from my week at St. Peter's Abbey in Saskatchewan earlier this summer.
There will be stuff to nibble on and beverages and fun people to talk to. And Yvonne is a very fine poet, so you should come!
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