Poetry Reading | Margo Wheaton

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April is Poetry Month, and we're celebrating with a group reading that traces the internal weather of love. Join MQUP author Margo Wheaton, along with Brian Bartlett, Luke Hathaway, and Harry Thurston for an evening of poetry and song that honours love in its many forms.

Romantic love, ecstatic love, love of a community, family, or friend - all will be explored. Poems that acknowledge our deep relationship to the natural world will also be shared.

Mike Simon and Robert Leek will be providing music.

Paul O'Regan Hall
Halifax Central Library, Floor 1
5440 Spring Garden Road
Halifax NS B3J 1E9

More details: https://halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/65efa64ad6ce06360059aef0

Margo Wheaton is the author of The Unlit Path Behind the House, which won the Fred Kerner Book Award from the Canadian Authors Association. She was born in New Brunswick and lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

about the books

Rags of Night in Our Mouths is an exploration of human and environmental states of precarity and vulnerability, and a vibrant hymn to the sustaining forces of wilderness, creativity, and compassion. Margo Wheaton constructs a hallucinatory world of fragility, chaos, and searing natural beauty as she writes her own version of Maritime gothic.

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.