Thursday January 12, 2012
Round table on sustainable living
5:30 pm
Suggested donation of $5
Atwater Library Auditorium: 1200 Atwater Ave.
aelaq.org
The Montreal Review of Books kicks off the Literary Montreal Series with its first event: a round table on sustainable living featuring three Montreal authors and hosted by Anne Lagacé Dowson.
In a world where politics and profit take priority over the environment, what can one person do? Join today's best environmental writers — Taras Grescoe, author of Bottomfeeder; William Marsden, author of Fools Rule; and Holly Dressel, co-author with David Suzuki of More Good News — for a round-table discussion on sustainable living.
The Literary Montreal Series consists of four events celebrating Montreal and its authors. These events, which will include a Montreal Noir event; the dramatization of a few scenes from Claire Holden Rothman’s The Heart Specialist, and a walking tour of literary Montreal, will take place between January and June 2012.
Monday January 16, 2012
An Evening with Michael Blekhman
6:15 to 8:15pm, non-members $5
Thomas More Institute: 3405 Atwater Ave.
An evening with Michael Blekhman, author of Questions Without Answers, a novel of novellas about the basic issues of human life. He will discuss the writing of this, his latest book and read from it.
Tuesday January 17, 2012
LTAC's literary translation workshop, 6 to 8pm, free
Plateau-Mont-Royal Library: 465 Mount-Royal Ave. East
Led by Rachel Martinez.
Thursday January 26, 2012
Susannah Dainow launches Fallow
7pm
Drawn & Quarterly: 211 Bernard West
drawnandquarterly.com
Working in narrative and the abstract, Susannah Dainow's poems capture themes of family, space-time, and memory with a candidly fractured lens. Through unexpected juxtapositions, off-beat motifs, and a penchant for slant rhyme, her writing carves emotionally and artistically satisfying landscapes, in which the reader is invited to witness both the definitive and the forgotten. Fallow is Dainow’s debut poetry collection; an earlier version was shortlisted in the 2011 Qaartsiluni Chapbook Contest.
Thursday, January 26,
Atwater Poetry Project: Matt Rader and Russell Thornton
7pm
Atwater Library: 1200 Atwater Ave.
atwaterlibrary.ca/events/atwater-poetry-project
Matt Rader is the author of Miraculous Hours (Nightwood, 2005) and Living Things (Nightwood, 2008), and of award-winning fine-press chapbooks. His work has appeared in journals across North America, Australia and Europe, and in anthologies including Breathing Fire 2, The Echoing Years: Poetry from Canada and Ireland, Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets, and in two editions of Best Canadian Poetry. A poet’s poet, Rader has earned numerous prizes and nominations, including the Gerald Lampert, Pushcart and National Magazine awards. His accomplished new book is A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno (Anansi, 2011).
Russell Thornton has won the League of Canadian Poets’ National Contest and The Fiddlehead's Ralph Gustafson Prize for Poetry, and his poems have appeared in several anthologies, including Open Wide A Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems, A Verse Map of Vancouver, and Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry. His recent books are House Built of Rain (Harbour, 2003), which was shortlisted for the ReLit Poetry Award and the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize, and The Human Shore (Harbour, 2006).
