Closing Event: Festival readers

22 Nov 2020 • 07:30 PM–08:30 PM Eastern

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The Poets

Chuqiao Yang

English Local

Finalist for the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

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The Last to the Party

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Michel Therien

French

Le poème involontaire is Michel Therien's eleventh collection.

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Le Poeme involontaire

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rob mclennan

English Local

rob mclennan's most recent are A halt, which is empty (Mansfield Press, 2019) and Life sentence, (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019),

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A halt, which is empty

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Shery Alexander Heinis

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Rising iterary star Shery Alexander Heinis is the author of Splinter.

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Splinter

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Vivian Vavassis

English Local

Vivian Vavassis is a Montréal ex-pat who lives in Ottawa and calls both cities home.

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Mike Montreiul

French Local

Montreuil is a prevailing voice in tanka, haiku, senryu, tanka and haibun in English and French Canada.

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Dangling Modifiers

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Helen Robertson

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Helen Robertson was longlisted for the 2019 Vallum Award for Poetry.

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David O’Meara

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Ottawa's David O'Meara's newest moving collection is Masses on Radar (Coach House, 2021).

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Eric Charlebois

French Local

Poet, motivational speaker, Éric Charlebois specializes in English-language aboriginal poetry translation.

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Sandscapes

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Jennifer Pederson

English

Jennifer Pederson's poetry has appeared in the anthology the bird philomela (battleaxe press), and in in/words magazine.

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Susan Atkinson

English Local

Susan's second collection, all things small, was released in April 2024