Redeemer University College

To date, the Poetry Reading Series has hosted:

 

2008-09

 

September 25, 2008

D. S. Martin (independently sponsored) is a widely published Canadian poet whose works have appeared in journals in both Canada and the United States. His first short collection of poetry, So The Moon Would Not Be Swallowed, received an Award of Merit from The Word Guild. More recently, Poiema, Martin’s second collection of poems, was published in the United States by Wipf & Stock. Martin contributes articles about poetry for Faith Today, Books & Culture, Image, and Rock & Sling, and is the Music Critic for Christian Week. Currently, he resides in Brampton with his wife and two sons.

 

October 30, 2008

Brian Bartlett was born in St. Stephen, New Brunswick. Along with four chapbooks of poems, Bartlett has published five collections, most recently The Watchmaker's Table (Goose Lane, 2008). His previous books include Travels of the Watch (Gaspereau, 2004), Wanting the Day: Selected Poems (Goose Lane, 2003), and The Afterlife of Trees (McGill-Queens, 2002). He received the Atlantic Poetry Prize in 2004, the Petra Kenney Poetry Award in 2000, and two Malahat Review Long Poem Prizes (1991, 1998). In 1996, he traveled to Scotland on a Hawthornden Castle International Writer's Retreat fellowship. Although Bartlett lived in Montreal for 15 years, in 1990, he moved to Halifax where he currently teaches creative writing and literature at Saint Mary's University.

November 27, 2008
George Amabile has published in Ca­nada, the USA, England, Wales, Europe, South America, Australia, and New Zealand in over a hundred an­thol­ogies, magazines, journals, and per­iod­icals including The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, Saturday Night, The New Yorker, Po­etry Canada Review, Ca­nadian Litera­ture, and Margin (Eng­land). He has pub­lished eight books including The Pres­ence of Fire (Mc­Clelland & Stew­art, 1982) which won the CAA Nation­al Prize. His long poem, Durée, placed third in the CBC Literary Compe­tition (1991); “Popular Crime” won first prize in the Sidney Booktown International Poetry Contest (2000) and “A Raft of Lilies” won second place in the MAC national poetry contest, “Friends” (2007). Amabile’s most recent publica­tion is Tasting the Dark: New and Selected Poems (The Muses Company, 2001).

 

January 15, 2009
Tanis MacDonald, poet and sometime literary reviewer, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1962. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario and resides in Victoria, B.C. She worked as a professional actor for a number of years, before beginning a long stint teaching and facilitating groups in social-educational programs. She was a front-line AIDS support worker and taught in programs for street youth, the mentally ill, and the unemployed. She was shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher, Fortune, 2004, and was the winner of the Bliss Carman Poetry Award, 2003. Holding Ground received the Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry, 2001 and the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, 2001.

 

February 12, 2009
Joanne Arnott is a Métis writer born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She studied English briefly at the University of Windsor and then moved to the west coast in 1982. Joanne has been a literary performer and published poet since the mid-1980s, and she has presented her work and given writing workshops across much of Canada and Australia. She has worked for many years as an Unlearning Racism facilitator and continues to incorporate social justice perspectives and peer counselling approaches into her work. Her first book of poetry, Wiles of Girlhood, won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1992. Her latest book is Mother Time: Poems New & Selected, published with Vancouver’s Ronsdale Press in 2007.

April 2, 2009

Patrick Friesen, a resident of Winnipeg for 30 years, now lives in Vancouver, teaching at Kwantlen University College. He has published numerous books of poetry and has also worked on translations of Danish poets. Friesen has also written several stage and radio plays, and has collaborated with choreographers, dancers, musicians and composers. His books have been shortlisted for the BC Book Prize, and his book, A Broken Bowl (Brick Books, 1997), was a finalist for the 1997 Governor General's Award. The Breath You Take from the Lord was also shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award in 2002. In 2007, Patrick released Earth's Crude Gravities with Harbour Publishing.

 

2007-08 [Back to top]
David Solway
Susan McCaslin (independently sponsored)
John Steffler
Adam Dickinson
Lee Maracle

2006-2007 [Back to top]



Tim Bowling and Jan Zwicky
Hilary Clark and Mary Dalton
David Zieroth
D.S. Martin (independently sponsored)

 

2005-2006 [Back to top]



Bruce Meyer (independently sponsored)
Alison Pick
Russell Thornton
Patrick Lane
Ross Leckie & Peter Sanger

2004-2005 [Back to top]



Carmine Starnino (independently sponsored)
Pier Giorgio di Cicco  
Cornelia Hoogland
Tim Lilburn  
Molly Peacock

2003-2004 [Back to top]



John Terpstra (sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets) 
Marlene NourbeSe Phillip (independently sponsored)
Karen Connelly
Al Moritz
Steven Heighton (sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets)
Marilyn Bowering

2002-2003 [Back to top]



Katherine Lawrence (independently sponsored)
Michael Crummey
Anne Simpson
George Elliott Clarke
Michael Redhill
Linda Rogers

2001-2002 [Back to top]



Dave Margoshes
Marlene Cookshaw
Don McKay 
Sue Goyette
Robert Kroetsch