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SAINT MARY'S READING SERIES - POETS IN FEBRUARY
The Atrium 923 Robie St. Room 101 Saint Mary's University
SUE GOYETTE TUESDAY, 7 FEB. 7 pm
Sue Goyette’s three collections of poetry, most recently Outskirts (2011), have all been published by Brick Books. Parts of the newest collection won First Prize for Poetry in the CBC Literary Awards, and a few months ago she received an Established Artist Recognition Award from the Nova Scotia government. Harper-Collins published her novel Lures. Since taking Creative Writing courses at Saint Mary’s University from 1991-93, she has become one of the most respected and beloved workshop leaders in Canada, with stints at The Banff Centre Wired Studio, Sage Hill in Saskatchewan, and the Blue Heron Workshop in Antigonish. She currently teaches workshops at Dalhousie University and has a part-time day job as Communications Officer for the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia. "Goyette peels back the surface of the familiar human world to reveal the forest-world mysteries, the shape-shifting, the glories and agonies truly at play there." – John Steffler
TAMMY ARMSTRONG & NICK THRAN THURSDAY, 16 FEB. 7 pm
Tammy Armstrong, originally from St. Stephen, New Brunswick, has travelled to more than twenty countries, lived for several years in Vancouver – where she completed an MFA at UBC – and is now based in Fredericton. This year she is in the U.S. on a Fulbright Scholarship, studying for a PhD in Animal Studies at Georgia State University. She has published two novels (Pye-Dogs and Translations: Airstream) and four collections of poems – Bogman’s Music (a Governor General’s Award nominee), Unravel, Take Us Quietly and, most recently, The Scare in the Crow (Goose Lane, 2010). "Armstrong’s writing has impressed me for its daring syntax, imaginative language, offbeat imagery. Hers are poems of sensual impact" – Todd Swift
Nick Thran has published two collections of poetry, Every Inadequate Name (nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award) and Earworm (Nightwood, 2011). After growing up in western Canada, Spain, and California, he lived in Toronto and in Brooklyn, New York. He has been a Goldwater Teaching Fellow and MFA candidate at New York University, and this year is living in Fredericton, where his wife, poet Sue Sinclair, is the current writer-in-residence at UNB. "Side-stepping the more likely subjects, Thran’s poems freewheel through a rangy lyricscape of our urban, cultural life. Sprawling, irrepressible, Earworm darts with wild control and energy, like a skateboard in a car park, taking the reader along on its engaging ride." – David O’Meara
THANKS TO THE CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS LITERARY READINGS PROGRAM, AND TO BOOKMARK
SMU READINGS AT A GLANCE
ALL READINGS BEGIN AT 7:00 P.M.
Weds., Sept. 28. WAYNE JOHNSTON, Room 165, Sobey Building, 903 Robie St.
Weds., Oct. 26. ANTANAS SILEIKA, Room 165, Sobey Building, 903 Robie St.
Tues., Nov. 8. E. ALEX PIERCE, Book launch for Vox Humana
Room 165, Sobey Building, 903 Robie St.
Tues., Nov. 22. STEVEN HEIGHTON, Room 165, Sobey Building, 903 Robie St.
Tues., Dec. 6. WARREN HEITI & HEATHER JESSUP
Book launch for Hydrologos and The Lightning Field Room 101, The Atrium, 923 Robie St.
Thurs., Jan. 19. HOLLY LUHNING, Room 101 The Atrium
Tues., Feb. 7. SUE GOYETTE, Room 101 The Atrium
Thurs., Feb. 16. TAMMY ARMSTRONG & NICK THRAN, Room 101 The Atrium
Weds., Mar. 7. DON MCKAY & JACOB MCARTHUR MOONEY, Room 101, Atrium, 923 Robie St.
Tues., Mar. 27. AMY JONES & REBECCA ROSENBLUM, Room 101 The Atrium.
Mon., Apr. 16. LINDEN MACINTYRE, Room 101, Atrium, 923 Robie St.
Joyce Marshall Hsia
Memorial Poetry Prize 2012
Open to All Students of Saint Mary's University
First Prize - $175.00
Second Prize - $125.00
Third Prize - $75.00
Entry Deadline – Monday, March 19, 2012
- This competition is open to all currently enrolled students of Saint Mary's University.
- A total of at least six (6) poems, but not more than ten (10), OR a minimum of fifty (50) lines altogether, should be submitted.
- All poems should be original and previously unpublished. (Poems currently submitted to the English Society's Creative Writing anthology are eligible for this competition.)
- Each poem should be neatly typed or printed on single-spaced separate sheets of 8 1/2 x 11" paper. (See regulation 8 for electronic submissions.)
- Each page should include the author's name and student number.
- A separate sheet should accompany each entry. It should include the author's name, student number, mailing address, and, if available, telephone number and email address.
- All entries (except for electronic submissions) should be submitted to Poetry Prize, c/o English Department, Room MN 314, Saint Mary's University.
- Entries submitted electronically should be sent to gwen.hardiman@smu.ca. The file should comply with regulations 4, 5, and 6.
New Books
When Language Breaks Down
Analysing Discourse in Clinical Contexts
Saint Mary's University, Nova Scotia
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521718240
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Goose Lane Editions Author and Poet Brian Bartlett WINS 2009 Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry!
Fredericton (November 10, 2009) — Goose Lane Editions is delighted to announce that author and poet Brian Bartlett has been selected by the Acorn-Plantos Committee as the 2009 People's Poet for his work The Watchmaker's Table .
In his most personal collection to date, Brian Bartlett meditates upon time and family. We share his son's discovery of newborn spiders and his daughter's first grasp of infinity as a concept. In companion poems on the births of his mother and father, Bartlett makes you feel as if you were alive at those moments in history. Books and the history of poetry shape time for Bartlett. Wrestling with time as if he were both Jacob and the angel, Bartlett speaks both for time's dominion and for human mutability. The collection, edited by Anne Compton, is divided into four sections that meditate on time through poetic forms such as haiku, sonnets, and found poems.
BRIAN BARTLETT grew up in Fredericton, lived for 15 years in Montreal, and moved to Halifax in 1990 to teach creative writing and literature at Saint Mary's University. He is the author of five collections of poems and four chapbooks, including Wanting the Day: Selected Poems (published in Canada by Goose Lane Editions and in the UK by Peterloo Poets), winner of the 2004 Atlantic Poetry Prize.
His honours have included two Malahat Review Long Poem Prizes and a Petra Kenney Poetry Award. He also edits the annual Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia Newsletter and is on the Executive Board of the Association for the Study of Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For more information about the Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry, please contact:
Jeff Seffinga, Executive Director, at jeffseff@allstream.net .
For review copies of The Watchmaker's Table , publication excerpts, or to schedule an interview with Brian Bartlett, please contact:
Susan Baker at sbaker@gooselane.com or call (888) 926.8377. High-res book cover and author image files are available at www.gooselane.com .
Theology and the Victorian Novel
J. Russell Perkin
Reclaiming the Victorian novel from presumed secularity.
Religious issues played a prominent role in Victorian England and had a profound influence on the culture of that period. In Theology and the Victorian Novel, J. Russell Perkin shows that even the apparently secular world of the realist novel is shaped by the theological debates of its time.
Beginning with a wide-ranging introduction that explains why a theological reading of Victorian fiction is both rewarding and timely, Perkin also addresses religion's return to prominence in the twenty-first century, confounding earlier predictions of its imminent demise. Chapters on William Thackeray, Charlotte Brontë, Charlotte Yonge, Anthony Trollope, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy are followed by a concluding discussion of Mary Ward and Walter Pater that relates Pater's Marius the Epicurean to postmodern theology and shows how it remains a religious classic for our own time.
Informed by extensive knowledge of the religion and culture of the period, Theology and the Victorian Novel significantly alters the way that the Victorian novel should be read.
Review quotes
"Theology and the Victorian Novel is exceptionally well-written: fluent, thoughtful, lucid, modest, and highly readable." Catherine Harland, Queen's University
"Perkin's central thesis, which pushes back against the unexamined secularism of so much modern criticism of Victorian literature, is highly original and very convincing." Stephen Prickett, Regius Professor Emeritus, University of Glasgow and Honorary Professor, University of Kent at Canterbury
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