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May
06
MacLennan Poetry Series 2015 Launch
Wednesday, May 6th, 20156:00 - 8:00 PM
Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay Street, Toronto, ON
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Come out to our Toronto launch to celebrate the MacLennan Poetry Series with poets Sarah Tolmie and Bruce Whiteman.
The authors will be reading from their poetry collections that were released this spring.
About Tablature, by Bruce Whiteman:
Bruce Whiteman's first book of poems in traditional lined form in thirty years is by turns learned and allusive, and emotionally expressive and despairing. The poems in Tablature capture readers with their singular music and their bright and unblinking takes on the quotidian challenges of living a life. These are poems of a highly tuned sensibility matched by a sweetness of language.
About Trio, by Sarah Tolmie:
A collection of 120 sonnets in eight parts, Trio reveals, frame by frame, a married fortysomething female narrator in love with two younger men - an intellectual and a dancer - and torn between the claims of body and mind. In the tradition of Renaissance sonnet sequences from Petrarch onward, the narrator's love objects are constantly before her eyes, and thus before ours, creating compassion, comedy, and desire. Through a singular feminist revision of a traditional poetic form, they tell the story - sometimes raunchy, sometimes crushingly sad - of a strong protagonist and the predicament she's in.
