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SUMMARY:Gibsons Library: Poetry Reading: Arleen Paré
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a poetry reading with Arleen Paré\, featuring poems from her recent collection Encrypted\, an intimate and moving exploration of family\, mental health\, and intergenerational connection through her relationship with her grandson. \nArleen 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. \nRegistration required.
URL:https://coastculture.com/event/gibsons-library-poetry-reading-arleen-pare/
LOCATION:Gibsons & District Public Library\, 470 Fletcher Rd S\, Gibsons\, BC\, V0N 1V0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community,Literary
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SUMMARY:SC Botanical Gardens: Jan DeGrass Book Launch of “Temptations and Travels”
DESCRIPTION:Author Jan DeGrass will launch her new book of stories\, Temptations and Travels\, that are part imagination\, part memory in the natural beauty of the Sunshine Coast Botanical Gardens. Temptations and Travels is a collection of stories that wander freely between fiction and lived experience. Here are tales of travels\, trials and temptations. Some tales grow from remembered journeys; others from moments half-forgotten but reshaped and embellished by the storyteller. \nA medieval monk is sorely tempted by a visit from a mysterious woodland woman. The author travels across the stark\, volatile landscapes of Iceland\, where volcanoes and rushing rivers invite wonder and introspection. A mother and daughter guard secrets from one another—each believing silence is an act of love. Elsewhere\, life’s lessons are learned in unlikely forms: from a curious emu\, from chance meetings with passengers on a train or from a handsome stranger in a remote British Columbia gold-rush town. Together they form a rich mosaic of travel\, reflection\, and the small\ntemptations that test human nature.
URL:https://coastculture.com/event/sc-botanical-gardens-jan-degrass-book-launch-of-temptations-and-travels/
LOCATION:Sunshine Coast Botanical Gardens\, 5941 Mason Rd\, Sechelt
CATEGORIES:Literary
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