Monday, February 13, 2012
6pm
Translation: Operations at the heart (ache) of meaning - A talk with Erín Moure
EV6-735, Concordia University: 1555 Ste Catherine West
cissc.concordia.ca/workinggroups/artisticproduction
Canadian poet and translator Erín Moure lives with one foot in Montreal and one in Kelowna. In her recent O Resplandor (2010) and—with Oana Avasilichioaei—Expedi ti ons of a Chimæra (2009) poetry is hybrid, and emerges in translation and col laboration. Moure has translated Nicole Brossrd (with Rober t Majzels ) and Louise Dupré from French, Chus Pato and Rosalía de Castro from Galician, Andrés Ajens from Chilean Spanish, and Fernando Pessoa from Portuguese. Her essays, My Beloved Wager (2009) are a chronicle of 25 years of writing practice. She performs and speaks internationally on poetry and translation, and her work has been honoured with awards on several occasions. The Unmemntioable, an investigation into subjectivity and experience in western Ukraine and Alber ta, will appear in February 2012.
Monday, February 13, 2012
6 to 8pm
ELAN's February Schmoozer, , free
Bar L'Barouf: 4171 Saint-Denis
quebec-elan.org
ELAN's Schmoozers are bi-monthly get-togethers that offer a great chance to make new professional connections and catch up with old friends.
Entry is free, and open to all (you don't have to be a member of ELAN to attend).
RSVP to admin@quebec-elan.org or 514-935-3312
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
7pm
Storytelling with Stéphanie Bénéteau: Tristan and Iseult
$10
Atwater Club: 3505 Atwater Ave.
alumni.concordia.ca/events/calendar/2012/02
Join storyteller Stéphanie Bénéteau as she recreates this classic tale of erotic passion and murderous rage in this medieval love story that keeps audiences enthralled until the cliff-hanging finale.
RSVP by February 9, 2012, online or phone 514-848-2424, ext. 4397, or 1-888-777-3330.
Information: erin.mullins@concordia.ca / 514-848-2424, ext. 3881
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
6 to 8pm
LTAC's literary translation workshop, , free
Plateau-Mont-Royal Library: 465 Mount-Royal Ave. East
'Finding the "other" in Translation', led by Sheryl Curtis.
Wednesday, February 15m, 2012
7:30pm
Atwater Library Book Club,
Atwater Library: 1200 Atwater Ave.
atwaterlibrary.ca/book-club Author Mary Soderstrom leads the Atwater Library Book Club in a discussion of The Way to Paradise by Mario Vargas Llosa, a novel about Gauguin and his militant grandmother Flora Tristan.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Matthew Forsythe launches Jinchalo
7pm
Drawn & Quarterly: 211 Bernard West drawnandquarterly.com Join Montreal cartoonist Matt Forsythe and Drawn & Quarterly for the launch of his new book Jinchalo. Jinchalo is the follow-up to the Doug Wright Award winning and Eisner nominated book Ojingogo. It's a fantastical tale about the adventures of a young girl and her mischievous companion. The evening will be comprised of a short presentation, conversation & signing.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
QWF Writers Out Loud
12pm
Nadine Doolittle
Solstice Books and Music: 815 Chemin Riverside, Wakefield, QC Nadine Doolittle writes psychological suspense set in the Gatineau Hills of West Quebec. Her debut novel, Iced Under, was shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel in 2009. Her second novel, The Grey Lady, is released this spring by McArthur and Co., along with the paperback edition of Iced Under. Her third novel,The River Bride is in the final stage of revision.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Atwater Poetry Project: Sue Goyette and Darren Bifford
7pm
Atwater Library: 1200 Atwater Ave.
atwaterlibrary.ca/events/atwater-poetry-project
Sue Goyette’s first collections, The True Names of Birds (Brick, 1998) and Undone (Brick 2004) were both finalists for the Governor General’s and Pat Lowther awards and for the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and were included in The Globe and Mail Top 100. The recent outskirts (Brick, 2011) is a collection of multi-part poems that range from the ecological to the playful; an excerpt has already been honoured with a CBC Literary Award.
“The first name that comes to mind is Darren Bifford,” said Sue Goyette when asked to name an emerging poet whose work she’d been excited to watch evolve. Bifford’s work has been published in various literary journals including Event, CV2 and Matrix, and in a chapbook collection of poems, Wolf Hunter, by Cactus Press, the title poem of which won the 2010 Malahat Review Far Horizons Award for Poetry. His first collection is forthcoming from Nightwood Editions.
February 28 to March 4, 2012
Ottawa ON VERSeFest 2012
versefest.ca
Featuring, amongst many other poets, Taqralik Partridge and Bruce Taylor!
