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Planet Earth Poetry: Adele Barclay, Rob Taylor

Fri. October 13th 2017 Hillside Coffee and Tea Victoria BC By Donation

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Planet Earth Poetry: Adele Barclay, Rob Taylor

The Planet Earth Poetry reading series is a launching pad for the energies of wr...
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Fri. October 13th 2017 + Add to Calendar Hillside Coffee and Tea (All Ages)
7:30pm  Doors at: 7:00pm By Donation

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Adele Barclay
Rob Taylor

Event Description

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.

Adèle Barclay’s writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Puritan, PRISM, The Literary Review of Canada, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award for Poetry and the 2016 Walrus Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut poetry collection, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You, (Nightwood, 2016) was nominated for the 2015 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and won the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She is the Interviews Editor at The Rusty Toque, a poetry ambassador for Vancouver’s Poet Laureate Rachel Rose, and the 2017 Critic-in-Residence for Canadian Women In Literary Arts. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Victoria and researches modern and contemporary American poetry.

Rob Taylor was born and raised in Port Moody, BC, and lives in Vancouver with his wife and son. He is the author of The News (Gaspereau Press, 2016), The Other Side of Ourselves (Cormorant Books, 2011) and the forthcoming Oh Not So Great: Poems from the Depression Project (Leaf Press, 2017). In 2017, The News was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and in 2010 the manuscript for The Other Side of Ourselves won the Alfred G. Bailey Prize.Rob is also the author of five poetry chapbooks, all from The Alfred Gustav Press. Rob’s poems, short stories and essays have appeared in more than fifty journals and anthologies, and have won multiple awards. In 2014 he was named one of the inaugural writers-in-residence at the Al Purdy A-frame, and in 2015 he received the City of Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for the Literary Arts, as an emerging artist. In 2011 Rob was part of the team that “resurrected” Vancouver’s Dead Poets Reading Series, which he still coordinates today.

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Hillside Coffee and Tea
1633 Hillside Avenue
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Planet Earth Poetry: Adele Barclay, Rob Taylor  @ Hillside Coffee and Tea Oct 13 2017 - Nov 22nd @ Hillside Coffee and Tea

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