bill bissett
Date:
Friday, November 27, 2009
Doors:
7:00pm
Performance:
8:00pm
Cost:
$10 ($8 students/seniors) admission at the door
Host:
Max Middle 
bill bissettbill bissett's charged readings, which never fail to amaze his audiences, incorporate sound poetry, chanting and singing, the verve of which is only matched by his prolific writing career – over 70 books of bissett’s poetry have been published.
PART OF THE EVENING'S PROGRAM, WE CELEBRATE bill bissett's 70th BIRTHDAY WITH CAKE, PRIZES, MUSIC AND THE FIRST THIRTY GUESTS RECEIVE A LOOT BAG!
Birthday festivities include poetry to be performed by LUNA ALLISON and KEVIN MATTHEWS and music to be performed by ROLAND PREVOST and JOHN LAVERY.
And there's going to be a piñata...
"I know who the great poets are. William Bissette of Vancouver. An Indian boy. Bill Bissette, or Bissonnette." (Jack Kerouac, 1967)
Margaret Atwood's "astral twin" and James Reaney's "one-man civilization", living legend bill bissett gives a feature reading in The A B Series.
The A B Series acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $20.1 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada.
