April 15 2010 – Jill Battson and John B. Lee
APRIL 15th, 2010
FEATURING :
JOHN B. LEE and JILL BATTSON
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JILL BATTSON
Jill Battson is an internationally published poet and poetry activist. She has been widely featured in literary journals and anthologies in North America and the UK and she has performed her work around the globe. Her first book, Hard Candy, was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. Jill has written several plays and solo works, including Ecce Homo – an enhanced monologue for dance and voice. She has also written the libretti for two short operas Netsuke and Ashlike on the Cradle of the Wind produced by Toronto’s Tapestry New Opera Works. Her latest book of poems from Insomniac Press is Ashes are Bone and Dust. A book of poems, Dark Star Requiem, forthcoming from Folded&Gathered Press, accompanies the oratorio Dark Star Requiem which opens this year’s Luminato festival in June.
Jill was recently honoured with the position of Poet Laureate for the City of Cobourg, Ontario.
CLICK HERE TO VISIT:
Opera to Go http://www.tapestrynewopera.com/current-season/opera-to-go/
Luminato http://www.luminato.com/
JOHN B. LEE
In 2005 John B. Lee was inducted as Poet Laureate of Brantford in perpetuity. The same year he received the distinction of being named Honourary Life Member of The Canadian Poetry Association. In 2007 he was made a member of the Chancellor’s Circle of the President’s Club of McMaster University and named first recipient of the Souwesto Award for his contribution to literature in his home region of southwestern Ontario and he was named winner of the inaugural Black Moss Press Souwesto Award for his contribution to the ethos of writing in Southwestern Ontario. A recipient of over sixty prestigious international awards for his writing he is winner of the $10,000 CBC Literary Award for Poetry, the only two time recipient of the People’s Poetry Award, and 2006 winner of the inaugural Souwesto Orison Writing Award (University of Windsor). In 2007 he was named winner of the Winston Collins Award for Best Canadian Poem. He has well-over fifty books published to date and is the editor of seven anthologies including two best-selling works: That Sign of Perfection: poems and stories on the game of hockey; and Smaller Than God: words of spiritual longing. His work has appeared internationally in over 500 publications, and has been translated into French, Spanish, Korean and Chinese. He has read his work in nations all over the world including South Africa, France, Korea, Cuba, Canada and the United States. He has received letters of praise from Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, Australian Poet, Les Murray, and Senator Romeo Dallaire. Called “the greatest living poet in English,†by poet George Whipple, he lives in Brantford, Ontario where he works as a full time author.
Jill Battson Morgan’s Bones
John B. Lee Remembering the October Missile Crisis
Edward Nixon What’s Wrong with My Picture
Jill Battson Practice For Life
Michael Kashmanian What’s Wrong with this Picture
Jill Battson On Seeing Saphia
John B. Lee Our Place in the Dark
Michael Fraser What is Wrong with This Picture
Jill Battson Lighting the Scene
Jill Battson 36 Reasons Why I Want to Garden