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Award-winning, spoken word sensation Shane Koyczan delivers his dynamic performance to a jam-packed house in Vancouver and proves his ranking as one of the top slam poets in the world. Koyczan is the winner of the U.S. National Poetry Slam, The Canadian Spoken Word Olympics, the CBC Poetry Face-Off, and author of ‘Visiting Hours’, published by Mother Press.
Poet, journalist and singer/songwriter Robert Priest puts the verse in diversity and takes us on a journey through his cheeky, irreverent and poignant poetry. Robert is the author of fourteen books of poetry and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Chalmer's Canadian Play Award and the Socan Airplay Award for ‘Song Instead of a Kiss’ with Alannah Myles.
Spoken word poet, educator and activist Motion, Queen of the Real, aka Wendy Brathwaite, gives us the low-down on Black realities of urban life. Motion has released a book and accompanying CD called ‘Motion in Poetry’. Her single ‘Connect the T.Dots’ was nominated at the Canadian Urban Music Awards for Spoken Word Recording of the Year.
Order of Canada recipient, university instructor and language-based poet Daphne Marlatt takes us on an exploration of the extraordinary frontiers of her multi-disciplinary writing. Marlatt has published fourteen books of poetry including, her signature book ‘Steveston’, ‘Salvage’ and her current collection ‘This Tremor Love Is’.
Writer and Editor Jon Paul Fiorentino blends popular culture with critical theory, and experiments with language to push meaning into a different realm with his post modern poetics. Fiorentino is a teacher at Concordia University and has written four books of poetry, ‘Theory of the Loser Class’, ‘Hello Serotonin’, ‘Resume Drowning’ and ‘Transcona Fragments’.
Catherine Kidd takes us on a high-flying ride through her enigmatic imagination, in her zoologically based, genre-bending, Dr. Seuss inspired poetry. Her latest work can be found in the Poetry Nation anthology from Vehicule Press, as well as a cassette/book released by Conundrum Press, ‘Everything I Know about Love I Learned from Taxidermy’.
Griffin Poetry Prize winner Anne Simpson shares her lyrical vision of the world as she delves into the quotidian and unearths the universe in her visual art and poetry. Simpson's first book of poetry ‘Light Falls through You’ was short-listed for the Governor General Award and her first novel, ‘Canterbury Beach’ (2001), was short-listed for the 2002 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award.
Clown, writer and arts administrator Kirk Miles, gives us an inside peek into the eclectic and poetic world of ‘Hamlet the Clown ’. From 1984-87 he performed in Alberta schools with Calgary's One Yellow Rabbit Theatre Company and as Hamlet the Clown has enjoyed an eleven year career as a professional entertainer.
Spoken word poet sheri-d wilson brings her dynamic, unique and compelling performance to the stage, shattering all conventions in her surrealist-inspired poetry. wilson has produced video poems for Bravo TV and a spoken word CD, Sweet Taste of Lightening, and has published six collections of verse, including the recent books, ‘Between Lovers’ and ‘Re:Zoom’.
Governor General's Award winning poet, librettist, and Professor George Elliott Clarke chronicles the history and experience of the Black Canadian community of Nova Scotia, illuminating our nation's rich and culturally diverse heritage. His poetic ‘Whylah Falls’ was part of the 1996 CBC Radio Drama series and an acclaimed stage play in 1997. In 1998, he was the first recipient of the prestigious Portia White Prize.
Performance artist, professor and Jewish cultural theorist, Adeena Karasick explores the ephemeral wilderness on the frontiers of language-based verse. An award-winning author of six books of poetry, including her recent ‘The House That Hijack Built’, and ‘MÍmewars’, which earned her a BC Book Award, she has performed worldwide and regularly publishes articles, reviews and dialogues on contemporary poetry.
Award-winning young poet Ray Hsu is a former self-professed ‘slacker kid’ who rides the line between traditional and experimental poetry. His book of poems, ‘Anthropy’ won the 2005 Gerald Lampert Award and was short-listed for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Ray is currently completing a Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Internationally respected dub poet, performer and lecturer, Lillian Allen brings her Jamaican roots to Canada's cultural landscape, weaving an enchanting and unique blend of the spoken and the written word. Allen has won two Juno awards for her dub poetry set to music on ‘Revolutionary Tea Party’ and ‘Conditions Critical’ and teaches creative writing at the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Griffin Prize winner and University of Calgary English Professor Christian Bök is the series opener with an exciting
performance of beat box and groundbreaking experimental sound poetry.
After finding her writer's voice in Vancouver, Andrea Thompson takes her poetry to the streets of Toronto in dynamic spoken word performances that combine spirituality and sensuality.
Rudyard Fearon breaks the silence with
minimalist poems rooted in the Caribbean
and a poetry archive housed in the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
People's poet, publisher of Black Moss Press, columnist for the
‘ Windsor Star ’, creative writing professor and storyteller extraordinaire Marty Gervais takes us on a journey through his life as a writer and photographer.
Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, poet, spoken-word artist and founder of the all-indigenous publishing company Kegadonce Press, shakes
up aboriginal culture with poems based on the oral history of the Anishnaabe people.
Activist, writer and event organizer, Kingston-based Jill Battson hosts a
poetry slam and plots some guerrilla
sidewalk poetry.
One of the country's pre-eminent poets,
two-time Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize winner and Milton Acorn People's Poet Award winner, bill bissett has published over 65 books of poetry. He shares his unique vision of our planet in a humorous romp through his vivid imagination.
Sandra Alland digs into her treasure box and shares the stories behind her captivating and humorous poems.
Montreal-based Sherwin Tjia's biting satire fuels his irreverent comic strip
‘ Pedigree Girls ’, his big book of pseudo haikus and a new graphic novel based on his blog.
Performance poet Seth-Adrian Harris
introduces his distinct blend of dub and spoken word in performance and in his poetic documentaries for radio and television.