In honour of National Poetry Month, IRAH presents four of Canada's finest. Don Domanski reads from his GG winner,
All Our Wonder Unavenged, Randall Maggs presents his homage to hockey,
Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, Alison Pick presents her beautiful new collection,
The Dream World, Jay MillAr hosts.
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Don Domanski was born and raised on Cape Breton Island and now lives in Halifax. He has published eight books of poetry and won the 2007 Governor General’s Award for poetry for All Our Wonder Unavenged, from which he now reads at IRAH.
Randall Maggs was born in Vancouver and grew up on the move in a military family, mainly on the west coast and the prairies as well as various places in Montreal, Fredericton and Halifax.
Jay MillAr is the author of the poetry collection the small blue. He runs literary publisher BookThug and the virtual bookst
Alison Pick is the author of the novel The Sweet Edge, a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book, optioned for film by Four Seasons Productions, and of two poetry collections, Question & Answer, and The Dream World.
In his Governor General's Award-winning collection, All Our Wonder Unavenged, Don Domanski explores the implicit relationship between matter and spirit, and opens up our perceptions of what it means to be alive in a sentient universe.
In Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, master raconteur Randall Maggs wraps the story of the game of hockey in the “intense, moody, contradictory” character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies.
In her elegant new collection, award-winning poet Alison Pick explores the mystery concealed within the world we know and recognise. Always evocative and alluring, Pick’s poems are concerned with the fabric of human emotions.
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