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Poetry Reading: Tim Lilburn: Tim Lilburn, Melanie Siebert

Wed. March 30th 2016 Open Space Free

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Poetry Reading: Tim Lilburn: Tim Lilburn, Melanie Siebert

From Governor General's Award-winning poet Tim Lilburn comes a new collection of...
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Wed. March 30th 2016 + Add to Calendar Open Space (All Ages)
7:00pm - 9:00pm  Doors at: 6:30pm Free

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Tim Lilburn
Melanie Siebert

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Open Word: Readings & Ideas
Victoria BC
Open / Operational
Open Space
Open Space (founded 1972) supports experimental artistic pra...
Open / Operational
Open Space
Open Space (founded 1972) supports experimental artistic pra...
Open / Operational

Event Description

From Governor General's Award-winning poet Tim Lilburn comes a new collection of poetry of great scope and ambition. Please join us to celebrate the launch in Victoria on Wednesday, March 30. The reading will be followed by a conversation between Tim and local poet Melanie Siebert.

The Names is personal and familial archaeology, an extemporal dig giving spectres back to their bodies. With its lines sped up and dazzlingly associative, Tim Lilburn’s cocktail of obsessions – confession, ontology, mystical theology, humour and extreme, fleet, apt weirdness – marches through on full display. He pulls in an even broader cast of characters than his previous collections managed: John Ruusbroec and Marguerite Porete brush past aunts, uncles, and unusual creatures steering the boats of language past fog-draped trees. In Lilburn’s latest collection, we are immersed in a realism of remarkable proportions, as though incandescent memory comprised both texture and text, and combined formed the elemental fibres of a perilous present.

Wednesday, March 30
Doors at 6:30 p.m.
510 Fort Street, Upstairs

PRAISE FOR

• "[Lilburn’s work] is astounding in its use of language. Image layered on image – and the force of that layering – creates, in the reader, a fusion of excitement and alienation that can be transformative." --The Antigonish Review

• "For decades, poet Tim Lilburn has sung songs of praise and moans of loss for the natural world, while grappling with the ultimate failure of words to render the divinity of the natural order. . . . [Lilburn has] thrilled readers with the jagged aggression that spikes his ecstatic visions. . . . His turns of phrase can be breathtaking." --Globe and Mail

• "Lilburn stands in awe of, and has come as close as humanly possible to capturing, the magnitude and magnificence of creation." --Arc Poetry Magazine

• "Striking and original. . . . [Lilburn captures] the mystical and ecstatic moments when self and world are united." --Booklist

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Open Space
510 Fort Street
Multi-Purpose / Hall
Capacity220
Open / Operational

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Poetry Reading: Tim Lilburn: Tim Lilburn, Melanie Siebert @ Open Space Mar 30 2016 - Nov 5th @ Open Space

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