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Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar St, Ottawa, ON
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Join Harold Hoefle (The Night Chorus) for a poetry reading as part of Ottawa's VERSeFest.
VERSeFest is Ottawa's annual International Festival of Poetry. Six days, eighty poets, one festival. Celebrating written poetry and spoken word in English and French, VF ’19 brings you some of the most exciting poets on the planet. View the full schedule >
Harold Hoefle's The Night Chorus rises out of forests and country roads, bars and buses, cities and small towns. In the tradition of songwriters like Gordon Lightfoot and Gord Downie and poets such as Al Purdy, Karen Solie, and David O'Meara, this collection presents so-called "obscure" lives, where dark and playful humour collides with historic and mythic characters including Ovid and Dante, Odysseus and Desdemona. Using lyric poetry and the ghazal, the prose poem and the elegy, The Night Chorus brims with images as sharp as wild geese scrawling letters against an evening sky and as humble as "pots of plum dumplings and still-warm soup."
Harold Hoefle teaches English and Creative Writing at John Abbott College. He lives in Montreal.