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Poetry Reading and Book Launch
November 13 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$10
On Nov 13, Arleen Paré and Wendy Donawa are hosting a poetry reading as they launch their recently published poetry collections Encrypted (published by Caitlin Press) and The Time of Falling Apart (Harbour Publishing) respectively.
Arleen Paré is a Victoria writer with ten collections of poetry, one chapbook and one co-edited anthology. She’s been short-listed for the Dorothy Livesay BC Award, and has won the Victoria Butler Book Prize, a CBC Bookie Prize, the bpnichol Chapbook Award, the American Golden Crown Award for Lesbian Poetry, twice, and a Governor Generals’ Award for Poetry. She lives with her wife, Chris Fox, in Victoria on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people.
Wendy Donawa was raised in Victoria, but spent 36 years of her adult life in Barbados, where she raised her family, studied at the university of the West Indies, taught at the college and was for a decade, a curator at the Barbados Museum.
Now retired from the academic life, she lives gratefully on the traditional unceded territories of the Lekwungen-speaking Songees and Esquimalt nations, in Victoria.
Here, her heart and mind have turned to poetry, and she is grateful for the gifted and generous teachings Patrick Lane, Lorna Crozier, and many others. Her poems appear in numerous chapbooks, anthologies and poetry magazines. Her first book, Thin Air of the Knowable, was long-listed for the Raymond Souster and a finalist for the Gerald Lambert Award. Her second book, Our Bodies’ Unanswered Questions, was one of the 2021 Frontenac quartet. The Time of Falling Apart is her third collection.
