06 October 2011

On 14 October 2011 GBRS presents...

Grey Borders Reading Series presents...

Three book launches!
Featuring...
rob mclennan (launching A (short) history of l.)
Tim Conley (launching Nothing Could Be Further)
& Liz Worth (launching Amphetamine Heart)


Friday October 14, 2011 @ 7pm
at Mahtay (241 St. Paul Street, St Catharines, Ontario)
free event, donations encouraged

rob mclennan: Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011), grief notes: (BlazeVOX [books], 2011), Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011), kate street (Moira, 2011) and 52 flowers (or, a perth edge) (Obvious Epiphanies, 2010), and a second novel, missing persons (2009). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review (ottwater.com/garneaureview), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

Tim Conley is the author of Whatever Happens (2006) and Nothing Could Be Further (2011). He teaches English and Comparative Literature at Brock University.

Liz Worth is the author of Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond, which has just been re-released in its fourth printing by ECW Press/Bongo Beat. She is also the author of a strange chapbook called Eleven: Eleven. Her new book, Amphetamine Heart, is her first poetry collection.


This event recognizes the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and The League of Canadian Poets

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