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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Welcome back to the winter installation of the Reading Series at St Jerome's! We're continuing our theme of Alternate Realities this term beginning with poet and novelist <b>Steve Noyes</b>. <br>
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Please join us on <b>11 February at 4:30 in STJ 2009</b>.<br>
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Steve Noyes is from Winnipeg and was educated at Carleton University's School of Journalism and UBC's MFA program. Over the years he has worked at many jobs, including editor, parking lot attendant, printing press grunt and disabilities advocate. More recently,
he has taught English in Chinese universities several times and spent more than a decade as a policy analyst in the BC Ministry of Health.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Steve has published nine books of fiction and poetry, and more than a hundred journal publications in Canadian literary magazines and newspapers. His most recent poetry collections are <i>small data</i> (Frog Hollow Press) and <i>Rainbow Stage-Manchuria</i> (Oolichan
Books). His first novel, <i>It is just that your house is so far away</i> (Signature Editions), prompted reviewers to call it "a portrait of China that is honest, intimate and layered" and "a wonderful book." He has recently published a second novel, <i>November's
Radio</i> (Oolichan Books).<br>
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These days, Steve divides his time between Victoria, where he lives with his wife, the poet Catherine Greenwood, and Canterbury, England, where is he pursuing a PhD in Writing at the University of Kent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please visit us at <a href="http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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