VIRTUAL LAUNCH | A House in Memory - A Celebration of David Helwig

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Join Bookmark Charlottetown and members of PEI's literary community to celebrate the launch of David Helwig's posthumous poetry collection, A House in Memory. The event will be moderated by David’s close friend, author and former poet laureate of Prince Edward Island, Hugh MacDonald and will feature Island poets reading David’s poetry, conversation with David’s daughter, Maggie, and partner, Judy Gaudet.

David Helwig (1938-2018) was the author of nearly fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. A longtime resident of Kingston, he spent his final years in Belfast, Prince Edward Island.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION

When the poet and novelist David Helwig - a recipient of the Matt Cohen Prize for lifetime achievement and a member of the Order of Canada - died in October 2018, he left behind a substantial catalogue of unpublished work. A House in Memory, a selection of Helwig's last poems, was assembled by his daughter, Maggie. It shows an author still at the height of his powers, creating work in complex formal structures, contemplating mortality, memory, and the landscape of his adopted home of Prince Edward Island, and paying tribute to his literary predecessors. The collection also includes unpublished poems from earlier in Helwig's career.