Poets Corner Reading Series

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This Week’s One Minute Poem! Arleen Paré reads “Longing”

2021-06-16 NEWS ,

In this week’s One Minute Poem, Arleen Paré reads “Longing” from First (Brick Books, 2021).

 

You can find Arleen’s poem on our YouTube channel, as well as on all of our social media platforms.

By kind permission of the poet and Brick Books.

Arleen Paré’s first book, Paper Trail, was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Award for Poetry and won the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize in 2008. Leaving Now, a mixed-genre novel released in 2012, was highlighted on All Lit Up. Lake of Two Mountains, her third book, won the 2014 Governor General’s Award for Poetry, was nominated for the Butler Book Prize and won the CBC Bookie Award. Paré’s poetry collection, He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car, was a 2015 Victoria Butler Book Prize finalist. The Girls with Stone Faces, her fifth book, won the American Golden Crown Award for poetry in 2018. Her sixth book, Earle Street, was released in Spring, 2020. She lives in Victoria with her partner of forty years.

 

This week’s One Minute Poem! Scott Ramsay reads “In the Event of a Summertime Death”

2021-06-11 NEWS , ,

In this week’s One Minute Poem, Scott Ramsay presents the short film based on his poem, “In the Event of a Summertime Death.”

You can find Scott’s excerpt on our YouTube channel, as well as on all of our social media platforms.
The full version of Scott’s film can be found here, on Scott’s YouTube channel.

By kind permission of the poet.

Scott Ramsay creates poems and multi-media street art, teaches high school creative writing, film studies and video production, and writes the intros to the Poets Corner newsletters. He’s been long-listed or a finalist for Prism’s Poem of the Year, ARC’s poem of the year, Quill’s poem of the year, and twice for the CBC’s Literary Award for Poetry. He was published most recently in Swamp Lantern Books leather handbound collection, Your Death Full of Flowers, released in Spain. He loves participating in spaces for people to inspire or be inspired

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