Daphne Marlatt reads March 26th, 7:30 pm, STJ3014

[Veronica Austen]

Please join us for our special event and conclusion to this year's Reading Series at St. Jerome's.

Daphne Marlatt
will read at St. Jerome's University
this Thursday (March 26th) at 7:30 pm
STJ3014

Daphne Marlatt was born in Australia and immigrated to Vancouver as a child. She studied English and writing at U.B.C. (B.A. 1964), where she was a member of the TISH group of young writers. She is known best as a poet (Steveston, Touch to my Tongue) but has also published works of fiction (Ana Historic, Taken), poetics (Readings from the Labyrinth, At the River’s Mouth) and oral history. She has worked extensively as an editor, writer-in-residence, and teacher. In 2006 she was appointed to the Order of Canada, and in 2009 was awarded the Dorothy Livesay Prize for Poetry for The Given. In 2012 she received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. Her recent work includes The Gull, the first Canadian play staged in the tradition of the Noh theatre, awarded the Uchimura Naoya Prize in 2008. Liquidities: Vancouver Poems Then and Now revises a 1969-70 series and adds a 2012 series of poems about her home city. Wilfrid Laurier University Press recently released her selected poetry, Rivering, edited by Susan Knutson.

Thanks to the SJU Department of English and the Wilfrid Laurier University Press for supporting this event.

The Reading is free and all are welcome.


For more information about the Reading Series, please visit canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca<http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca>

Tristanne Connolly and Veronica Austen, series co-organizers
English Department
St Jerome's University

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