Open Word: Readings and Ideas. John Pass
Wednesday, February 27, 7:30 pm at Open Space
Thursday, February 28, 1 pm at Uvic
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.
Pass will be the second reader in Open Word: Readings and Ideas, the literary series launched earlier this month to capacity crowds at Open Space and the University of Victoria. Featuring on-stage discussions with Canada’s top fiction and non-fiction writers, Open Word promises intelligent, spontaneous and culturally pivotal evenings.
Pass’s recent book, Stumbling in the Bloom, traces beauty’s entanglement in life and art, in the garden and in wilderness. This collection includes a singularly moving Canadian journey towards and away from the “ground zero” of the 9/11.
Following his reading, Pass will be interviewed on stage by local philosopher and poet Tim Lilburn. Their conversation will surprise and challenge as the two discuss the limits of wilderness, the claim of uncertainty and accident on our lives, the philosophy of acceptance, and Pass’s poetics. Pass will give a second public reading Thursday, February 28 at the University of Victoria, HSD A264 at 1:00pm.
Open Word will welcome Vancouver fiction writer Annabel Lyon, who is reviving the novella, in March. Poet Karen Solie, whose first poetry collection Short Haul Engine was nominated for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize will read in April.
For more information or an interview with John Pass, call Helen Marzolf at 383-8833 or Sara Cassidy at 514-7782.