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READING/ROUND TABLE: Borson, Hall, McKay, Sadiqa de Meijer

Saturday, October 20, 4:00pm, 2012
| Studio Theatre
CBC Books
2012-10-20 16:00
2012-10-20 17:30

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Poet Summit: How the Poem Changes Us

Poets discuss how great poems shape and affect how we see the world.

This event features Roo Borson, Phil Hall, Don McKay and Sadiqa de Meijer, winner of the English language CBC Poetry Prize. The CBC's Garvia Bailey hosts and moderates.

This event is part of CBC Day, where Canada’s national broadcaster, the CBC, lends members of its team to host, moderate or interview at Festival events. Some authors participating in events on October 20 are also CBC personalities.

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Garvia Bailey

Garvia Bailey is the host and producer of CBC Radio One’s Big City, Small World. For the past few years at CBC, Bailey’s path has veered towards the cultural end of storytelling, covering the vibrant arts and music scene for both CBC Radio and TV.
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Roo Borson

Roo Borson has published 11 books of poetry, including Short Journey Upriver Toward Ôishida, which won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She is currently working on a collaborative book project, Box Kite, with Kim Maltman under the pen name Baziju. Borson presents Rain; road; an open boat, a poetry collection that explores form, tone, musicality and content, drifting back and forth between the present and the past.
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Sadiqa de Meijer

Sadiqa de Meijer's poetry, short stories and essays have appeared in a number of literary journals, as well as in the Best of Canadian Poetry in English series and in the anthology Villanelles. "Great Aunt Unmarried" is a selection from her first poetry manuscript. Born in Amsterdam and raised in various places, she lives with her family in Kingston. de Meijer is this year's English winner of the CBC Poetry Prize.
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Phil Hall

Phil Hall’s first book, Eighteen Poems, was published in 1973. His works include Old Enemy Juice and The Bad Sequence. He has taught writing at several universities and colleges and been a poet-in-residence at Sage Hill Writing Experience, The Pierre Berton House and elsewhere. Killdeer, winner of the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and the Trillium Book Award, is Hall’s most recent publication and was partially inspired by the Eastern Ontario landscape.
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Don McKay

Don McKay has published 11 books of poetry including Another Gravity, Camber: Selected Poems and Strike/Slip, all of which were shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, which he won for Strike/Slip. He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland, edits poetry, and has taught poetry in universities across the country. In his latest collection of poems, Paradoxides, McKay explores fossils and deep time.
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