November Poetry Events
Nanimo Events Nov 13 & 21
Crimson Coast Dance Society is hosting HIGHGATE, by Tara Cheyenne, Nov 21st, 7.30pm at VIU. It's a morbid romp through Victorian funerary culture. A fascinating gothic feast of death, physical oddity, humor and horror. Prior to the show there will be 3 events that get us all talking about death. Our first event is a SILENT Cemetery Parade followed by death poetry at the Vault.
Meet at the cemetery (555 Bowen Rd) Thursday 13th Nov, 6.30pm in your mourning attire. A time for reflection and honouring of our deceased, that could be loved ones, past poets, philosophers, artists and those who left this world a better place. Light candles, write notes then a silent parade around the cemetery led by Holly Bright. All meet up at the Vault for 7pm for open mic, poetry, songs, quotes, readings. Hosted by Lisa Webster Gibson, Gabriola Poetry Society.
Third Thursday Open Mic November 20
Featuring Naomi Wakan
If you missed Naomi’s celebration of her first year as inaugural Poet Laureate of Nanaimo at the Art Lab on November 15th, 2 pm, please join her at the Old Crow Café on Gabriola at 7 pm on November 20th. After the open stage of other poets reading, Naomi will consider the “Poetry of Aging”. This is a podcast essay Naomi, Frank Moher and Nathan Tinkham prepared for CKGI radio. Do older poets write differently to young ones? Do their themes seem more sober and somber? Naomi’s bitter-sweet poetry essay will have you laughing and tearful, maybe at the same time. For more information Sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets and Poetry Gabriola Society. By donation.
Pop Up Poetry November 27
#4 Pop-Poetry:
Bruce Rice, Poet and Dennis J. Evans, Photographer -
The Trouble with Beauty - reading and slideshow
Thursday, November 27, 2014 - 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm, Poetry Yurt - Bruce Rice was moved to words by the natural beauty he saw during repeated travels along Seven Bridges Road just west of Regina and in the landscape around Eastend and the Cypress Hills in southwestern Saskatchewan. As he sought to express the beauty he saw in those places on their own terms, without imposing the ego of the poet, he found resonances of himself in what he was seeing – the landscape began to write him. Distinguished by its long unhurried lines and its vivid descriptions of the Saskatchewan landscape, The Trouble with Beauty is an absorbing and moving collection of poetry about the contemporary hunger for transcendence or, what the poet calls “the mysteries/God didn’t plan for.” Powerfully elegiac, these poems can be read as a single sequence, an ongoing almanac of the poetís inner weather, in which epiphanies are hair-triggered to the most ordinary occurrences – the
push of a breath on the back of a small clump of grass.
Dennis J. Evans - recent immigrant to Gabriola - will also do a slideshow and talk on his photographs which accompany these poetic words.
By donation. For more information: Sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets and the Poetry Gabriola Society.
