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Oct
21
Poetry Reading: The Night Chorus
Sunday, October 21st, 20182 pm
The Book Shop, 2-10, County Road 4, Tamworth, ON
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Join Harold Hoefle for a reading from his latest poetry collection, The Night Chorus, at The Book Shop in Tamworth, ON. Hoefle will be joined by Geoffrey Cook.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Harold Hoefle's The Night Chorus rises out of forests and country roads, bars and buses, cities and small towns. These locales are the haunts of outsiders ranging from travellers and farmers to a soldier, a drug addict, a refugee, and the murdered. The past clings in these stark, evocative poems, "memory a closet of clothes / that hang from bent wire."
In the tradition of songwriters like Gordon Lightfoot and Gord Downie and poets such as Al Purdy, Karen Solie, and David O'Meara, The Night Chorus 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."
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