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Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia, 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Margo Wheaton will read from her poetry collection, The Unlit Path Behind the House. Other poets reading include Janet Barkhouse, Deirdre Dwyer, Anne Simpson, and Chad Norman. Hosted by the Writers' Fed of Nova Scotia and The League of Canadian Poets.
Margo Wheaton was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, and currently lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Sensuous, atmospheric, and spare, The Unlit Path Behind the House collects poems that seek light in difficult places. In lines filled with an intense music, Margo Wheaton listens for the lyricism inside the day’s blessings and catastrophes. Wheaton’s poems sing at the intersections where public and private worlds collide: the steady cadence of a boy carrying an unconscious girl in his arms, the afternoon journey of a woman taking books to prisoners, the rhythmic breathing of a homeless man asleep in a parking lot. In these works, fireflies pulse in the dark, lovers clasp and unclasp, and street signs sing like Blake’s angels. Deeply informed by the natural world, Wheaton’s writing is marked by great meditative depth; while passionately engaged, these poems evoke a field of mystery and stillness.