Open Word: Readings and Ideas
Sylvia Legris
Tuesday February 10, 7:30pm
Wednesday February 11, 10:00am
Sylvia Legris will read on Tuesday evening, February 10 at 7:30pm at Open Space, 510 Fort Street. Following the reading, Victoria poet Tim Lilburn will interview Legris.
On Wednesday, February 11, she will read at the University of Victoria, Clearihue Building room A306 at 10:00am.
Admission by donation.
Winner of the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize, and the 2006 Pat Lowther Memoiral Award, Saskatoon’s Sylvia Legris uses language to explore territories of science and sky, neuroscience and inter-species speculation, and interiors inhabited and obsessed. Legris’ poetry is spare and unflinching; every line is packed. Marked by graceful linguistic agility, and grounded by a dark playful humour, Legris’ poetry celebrates the pleasures and perversities of words, syntax, and fact.
Legris’ titles include iridium seeds, circuitry of veins, and the 2006 Nerve Squall.
Sylvia Legris has a growing international reputation. Her work has appeared widely in periodicals and anthologies and has recently been translated into Icelandic. Poems from her new manuscript, Pneumatic antiphonal, have appeared recently in Prairie Fire, New American Writing, Conjunctions, and Matrix.
In addition to poetry, Legris writes about visual art and is currently writing a novel set in Winnipeg against a backdrop of garbage, politics, paranoia, and perogies. In October 2008 she was appointed Editor of Grain magazine, a literary journal published out of Saskatoon. Copies of Nerve Squall and iridium seeds will be on sale.
Open Space recognizes the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the KOTO Restaurant as well as the contributions of its members and volunteers.