9:00pm
Free
2019 Bywords John Newlove Poetry Award
with Tomasz W. Wiszniewski and Jack Pine
Hosted by Amanda Earl
Friday
Oct , 2019
25
The poems entered in the John Newlove Poetry Award competition were a pleasure to read for their passionate politics and the appetite they showed for taking up difficult material. In the end, I chose as the winning poem one that brought together the most assured overlap of image, affect, and idea with an admirable use of lyric voice and form.
Join us for the launch of Death Is A White Balloon by Tomasz W. Wiszniewski, the 2018 recipient of the John Newlove Poetry Award.
The evening also features readings by this year’s award recipient and honourable mentions—to be announced at the reading—plus music by Jack Pine.
Books available for purchase at every event: Proceeds support our free children’s literacy programs.