The Blue Clerk

One on One with Dionne Brand

Hosted by CBC’s Adrian Harewood     In Person Poetry

Date
Date
Saturday
Oct , 2018
27
6:30pm
Eastern
Christ Church Cathedral
414 Sparks Street • Ottawa
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The Blue Clerk

You don’t read Dionne Brand, you hear her.

Toronto Life

Dionne Brand, author of the Griffin Poetry Prize-winning collection Ossuaries, returns with The Blue Clerk, a startlingly original work about the act of writing itself. Join us for a taste of the new work by a keen observer and one of today’s most accomplished poets, and a conversation with Adrian Harewood on the act and difficulty of writing, the relationship between the author and the world, and the relationship between the author and art. 

 

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Presented with support from Editors Canada.

 

The Authors

Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand's literary credentials are legion. Her most recent book of poetry, Ossuaries, won the Griffin Poetry Prize; her nine others include winners of the Governor General's Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Her novel In Another Place, Not Here was selected as a NYT Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book by the Globe and Mail; At the Full and Change of the Moon was selected a Best Book by the LA Times and What We All Long For won the Toronto Book Award. In 2006, Brand was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the world of books and writing, and was Toronto's Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2012. In 2017, she was named to the Order of Canada. Brand is a Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. She lives in Toronto.September 2018. Her works of non-fiction include Bread Out of Stone and A Map to the Door of No Return. In 2006, Brand was awarded the prestigious Harbourfront Festival Prize, and from 2009 to 2012, she was Toronto's Poet Laureate. In 2017, she was appointed to the Order of Canada. In addition to her literary accomplishments, Brand is a Professor of English in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph.

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