A Reading by Monty Reid
Date:
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Doors:
7:00pm
Performance:
7:30pm
Venue:
Gallery 101
Cost:
$7 admission at the door / $5 low income With an introductory set by musical ensemble 'Call Me Katie'
Monty Reid is one of the country's most-respected poets. Widely-published, his work ranges from natural history essays, to songs for his band - Call Me Katie, and some 14 collections of poetry. His most recent books are A Poem That Ends With Murder (Apt 9 Press), The Luskville Reductions (Brick) and Lost in the Owl Woods (BookThug). His Disappointment Island (Chaudiere) won the Lampman-Scott Award for Poetry in 2007. He has won the Stephansson Award for Poetry, a National Magazine Award, and has been short-listed for the Governor-General's Award on three occasions. Born in Saskatchewan and a long-time resident of Alberta, he now lives in Ottawa where he is Director of Exhibitions at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
Call Me Katie consists of members left to right Monty Reid, Sarah Hill and Mike Rivoche
NB: Immediately before this event, in the same venue Gallery 101, you can catch the independently organized Ottawa launch for the anthology 'Rogue Stimulus' with editors Stephen Brockwell and Stuart Ross. The launch takes place from 6 to 7pm (Gallery 101 doors open at 5:45pm). More on 'Rogue Stimulus' can be found on publisher Mansfield Press' web site at mansfieldpress.net.
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.
