Arnprior Expressions, 'The Poetry of Place'

in conjunction with the Arnprior Public Library and Farrow Architects

In Person Poetry

Admission

Free

Friday

Sep , 2012

7:00pm

Eastern

Arnprior Public Library

21 Madawaska Street • Ottawa

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Arnprior Expressions, 'The Poetry of Place'

The Vicinity wanders and wonders, seeking a possible home, and along the road it notices, savours, questions and praises every sight and sound, from a steel vertex to an old poster for a long-gone ska concert.

A. F. Moritz

Phil Hall, David O'meara and Sandra Ridley, reading their poetry and in conversation.

This is a free event but registration is required. Email Neil Wilson to register.

The Authors

David O’Meara

David O'Meara is the author of four previous collections of poetry, most recently A Pretty Sight (Coach House Books, 2013). A past winner of the Archibald Lampman Prize and the Ottawa Book Award, David lives in Ottawa, Canada where he tends bar.

Phil Hall

Phil Hall is a writer, editor, and teacher. His first book, Eighteen Poems, was published in 1973. Among his many published titles are: Old Enemy Juice (1988); The Unsaid (1992); Hearthedral-A Folk-Hermetic (1996); An Oak Hunch (2005); White Porcupine (BookThug, 2007); Killdeer (BookThug, 2011; winner of the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the 2012 Trillium Book Award, and shortlisted for the 2012 Griffin Poetry Prize); The Small Nouns Crying Faith (BookThug, 2013); Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, a Selected Collage (2015); and My Banjo and Tiny Drawings (2015). Hall has taught writing at York University, Ryerson University, Seneca College, George Brown College, and elsewhere, and has held the position of Poetry Editor for BookThug since 2013. Conjugation is his latest book. Phil lives with his wife near Perth, Ontario.

Sandra Ridley

Sandra Ridley is the author of five books of poetry: Fallout; Post-Apothecary; The Counting House; Silvija, a finalist for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize; and Vixen, winner of the 2024 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She has won the bpNichol Chapbook Award, Saskatchewan Book Award for Publishing, the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, and the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ Battle of the Bards. Additionally, she has been a finalist for the Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award, the Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, the ReLit Award for Poetry, and the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. She has also been nominated for the Ontario Arts Council’s KM Hunter Artist Award for Mid-Career Writer and for the Ottawa Arts Council’s Mid-Career Artist Award. Ridley has taught poetry at Sage Hill Writing, Carleton University, and has had the honour of being a mentor with Ottawa’s Supportive Housing and Mental Health Services “Footprints to Recovery” program for people living with mental illness. An audio performance of her chapbook “Lift” was presented on CBC’s Sound Exchange. Her work has been anthologized and translated into German and French. Sandra grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan and lives in Ottawa.