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Planet Earth Poetry: Tim Lilburn, Gary Barwin

Fri. November 10th 2017 Hillside Coffee and Tea By Donation

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Planet Earth Poetry: Tim Lilburn, Gary Barwin

The Planet Earth Poetry reading series is a launching pad for the energies of wr...
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Fri. November 10th 2017 + Add to Calendar Hillside Coffee and Tea (All Ages)
7:30pm  Doors at: 7:00pm By Donation

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Tim Lilburn
Gary Barwin

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The Planet Earth Poetry reading series is a launching pad for the energies of writers and poets established and not. The evening begins at 7:30 with an open mic, followed by featured readers. Between 7 and 7:15, put your name in the hat to read at open mic.

Tim Lilburn was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has published ten books of poetry, including To the River (1999), Kill-site (2003), Orphic Politics (2008) and Assiniboia (2012). Lilburn has produced two books of essays, both concerned with poetics, eros and politics, especially environmentalism, Living in the World as if It Were Home (1999) and Going Home (2008). A third collection, The Larger Conversation, completing the trilogy, will be published by the University of Alberta Press in 2017 His most recent poetry collection, The Names, appeared from McClelland and Stewart in 2016.

Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, and multidisciplinary artist and the author of 21 books of poetry, fiction and books for children. His novel Yiddish for Pirates (Penguin Random House Canada) won the 2017 Leacock Medal for Humour, the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Fiction and was a Scotiabank Giller Prize and Governor General’s Award finalist. It has recently been released in the US and as an audiobook. His latest poetry collection is No TV for Woodpeckers (Wolsak & Wynn) His interactive writing installation using old typewriters and guitar processors was featured during 2016–2017 at the Art Gallery of Hamilton. Barwin is 2017–2018 writer-in-residence at McMaster University and the Hamilton Public Library. He also works with the Art Forms program teaching creative writing to at-risk youth. Barwin lives in Hamilton, Ontario with vague and unfounded suspicions about both language and Toronto.

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Hillside Coffee and Tea
1633 Hillside Avenue
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Planet Earth Poetry: Tim Lilburn, Gary Barwin @ Hillside Coffee and Tea Nov 10 2017 - Nov 5th @ Hillside Coffee and Tea

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