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Meeting ID: 941 9354 8406
Passcode: CHECKIT
Sarah Tomie reads from her latest poetry collection, Check, as part of a joint reading with Tanis MacDonald (Mobile, Book*hug Press, 2019). The event will be moderated by Trilium Award-Winning poet, Laurie Graham. Hosted by Wilfred Laurier University in partnership with the League of Canadian Poets.
Sarah Tolmie is professor of English at the University of Waterloo, a speculative fiction writer, and the author of two previous poetry collections, Trio and The Art of Dying, shortlisted for the Griffin Prize in 2019.
Hard-won freedoms of choice and association lead us to flock together in groups of the like-minded. Check is a book of contemporary poetic satire about the groups that we inevitably form and their consequences: in-groups and out-groups and mutual suspicion. When we look around at others, and talk about them amongst ourselves, we agree.
Sarah Tolmie writes about parents and teenagers, social media users, different kinds of writers, university professors, feminists, celebrities, pundits - each one in possession of a different truth and determined to defend it. Hatred and intolerance are always the province of other people, never ourselves.