Open Word: Readings and Ideas. Ken Babstock
Open Word: Readings and Ideas. Ken BabstockWednesday February 6 at 7:30 pm.
Open Space and the Department of Writing, University of Victoria proudly announce Open Word: Readings and Ideas, featuring on-stage discussions with Canada’s top fiction and non-fiction writers and poets.
Ken Babstock, whose energetic, playful poems were short-listed for the prestigious 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize, and won the Trillium Book Award and Milton Acorn People’s Poet Award. Ken Babstock will lanch the sereis with a reading on Wednesday February 6 at 7:30 pm.
Following his reading Ken will be interviewed by Tim Lilburn, a Victoria poet and philosopher. Babstock will also read at the University of Victoria on Thursday February 7 at 1:00pm, Human Social and Development Building, HSDA, Room 264.
Quoted by indie bands such as the Rheostatics and The Deadly Snakes, Babstock is possibly the best-heard poet of his generation. His third collection, Airstream Land Yacht has been hailed for its formal beauty and “imagistic brinkmanship”.
Other writers to appear include 2006 Governor-General’s Award for Poetry winner, B.C. poet John Pass (February 27), and Vancouver fiction writer Annabel Lyon. The series is managed by local writers Sara Cassidy and Tim Lilburn. Open Space has a strong literary history, having welcomed George Bowering, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Erin Moure, bill bissett, Lorna Crozier, Al Purdy, Roo Borson, Ted Hughes, and dozens of other writers since 1972.