Plan 99 Poetry Cabaret with David Seymour, Stephanie Bolster and Rona Shaffran

Hosted by David O’Meara

In Person Poetry

Admission

Free

Sunday

Apr , 2013

5:00pm

Eastern

The Manx Pub

370 Elgin St. • Ottawa

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Plan 99 Poetry Cabaret with David Seymour, Stephanie Bolster and Rona Shaffran

Bolster’s work demonstrates a surety of vision supported by an insider’s eye for the telling aberrant detail everywhere matched by her impeccable ear . . .

Judith Fitzgerald, The Globe and Mail

Join us for an afternoon of acclaimed poetry presented in collaboration with the Plan 99 Reading Series.

The poems in David Seymour’s For Display Purposes Only are paeans to our facility for duplicity and self-deception, in which the act of living is like a movie we're not in.

Stephanie Bolster’s A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth questions what it means to be human, to be animal, to be other and to be art.

Rona Shaffran’s Ignite contains unflinching work that tells the story of a broken relationship healed by a renewed connection between body, soul and earth.

The Authors

David Seymour

David Seymour's Inter Alia was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. His poems have been included in three Best Canadian Poetry anthologies, shortlisted for the CBC Literary Award and used as song lyrics for The Warped 45's. David lives in Toronto, where he works in the film industry.

Rona Shaffran

Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Rona Shaffran lives in Ottawa, Ontario. Ignite (Signature Editions, 2013) is her first published collection of poetry. It tells the story of remarkable things that can happen in a broken relationship between a man and a woman, healed by a very physical process of self-discovery. Rona Shaffran recently retired as co-director of the Tree Reading Series, one of Canada’s longest running poetry venues, where she is also a member of the board of directors and organizes master poetry workshops. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and the Banff Centre Writing Studio. Her poems have appeared in Canadian literary journals, including Vallum, in an illustrated chapbook published and distributed in Canada and Australia, and in several collaborative chapbooks. She has won honourable mention for the John Newlove Poetry Award. Retired several years ago from federal government work, Rona has chaired the boards and committees of many non-profit organizations. She devotes time to writing and to travel, and is at work on a second manuscript that includes both poetry and prose.

Stephanie Bolster

Stephanie Bolster’s latest book, A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and an excerpt from her current project was chosen as a finalist for the CBC/Canada Writes competition in 2012. Her first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, won the Governor General's Award and the Gerald Lampert Award in 1998. Her work has also received the Bronwen Wallace Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and The Malahat Review’s long poem prize, among other awards, and been translated into French, Spanish, and German. She edited The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 and The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems by the Ottawa poet Diana Brebner, and co-edited Penned: Zoo Poems. Born in Vancouver, she teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montréal and lives in Pointe-Claire, Québec.