Chaudiere Books Fall Launch with Andy Weaver, Chris Turnbull, Jennifer Londry and William Hawkins

In Person Poetry

Admission

Free

Saturday

Nov , 2015

5:00pm

Eastern

Manx Pub

370 Elgin St. • Ottawa

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Chaudiere Books Fall Launch with Andy Weaver, Chris Turnbull, Jennifer Londry and William Hawkins

Everyone should read these poems.

Bruce Cockburn on William Hawkins

The Writers Festival is pleased to be hosting a special Fall launch for Ottawa’s own Chaudiere Books.

Co-publishers rob mclennan and Christine McNair, have another great slate of books coming your way!

Join us for readings by Andy Weaver (this), Jennifer Londry (Tatterdemalion), Chris Turnbull (continua) and William Hawkins (The Collected Poems of William Hawkins).

The Authors

Andy Weaver

Andy Weaver has published two books of poetry, Were the bees (NeWest Press, 2005) and Gangson (NeWest Press, 2011), and a recent chapbook, Concatenations, through above/ground press. He teaches contemporary poetry and poetics at York University.

Chris Turnbull

Chris Turnbull lives near Ottawa. Her short opti/surface work, “[ untitled ],” is one of a trio (with angela rawlings and Heather Hermant) in o w n (Vancouver: Cue Books, 2014). continua is her first full collection of poetry.

Jennifer Londry

Jennifer Londry is the author of two previous books of poetry: Life and Death in Cheap Motels, which was adapted for stage, and After the Words, which was nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award. A featured reader at the 2009 Kingston Writers’ Festival and at the 2011 Sweetwater 905 in Northern BC, she has also facilitated and organized a literary event for Alzheimer’s Awareness. Jen has taught creative writing and recently was a judge for Words from the Street, a creative writing competition, which gives a voice to the downtrodden, in association with The Toronto Writers’ Collective. She is also a contributor to the anthologies: A Crystal through which Love Passes, Glosas for P.K. Page (Buschek Books, 2013), Where the nights Are twice As long, Love Letters of Canadian Poets (Goose Lane Editions, 2015), and has work forthcoming in the Alzheimer’s anthology, A Rewording Life, editor Diane Schoemperlen, creator Sheryl Gordon. Currently Jen is collaborating with the documentary filmmaker Sarah Turnbull at the Carleton School of Journalism and Communications to produce a mental health video.

William Hawkins

William Hawkins was born in Ottawa in 1940. After side trips to the West Coast and Mexico, he resides in the capital, pursuing enlightenment or a reasonable alternative thereto. Hawkins worked as a truck driver, cook, journalist and musician before settling on the taxi profession as a means of preserving integrity and ensuring near-poverty. He is now retired. His work appeared in the seminal anthology New Wave Canada: The New Explosion in Canadian Poetry (Toronto: Contact Press, 1966) edited by Raymond Souster and Modern Canadian Verse (Toronto: Oxford, 1967) edited by A.J.M. Smith. His books include Ottawa Poems (Kitchener: Weed/Flower Press, 1966) and The Madman’s War (Ottawa: S.A.W. Publications, 1974). Broken Jaw Press published his Dancing Alone: Selected Poems in 2005. Also an acclaimed songwriter, a tribute CD (Dancing Alone: The Songs of William Hawkins) was released in 2008. In 2013, he was inducted into the VerseOttawa Hall of Honour.