On Wednesday, Feb 24 at 7:00 at the Fanny Bay Hall, The Fat Oyster will feature two of Canada’s best poets along with an up and coming poet and non-fiction writer from Lantzville.
http://fannybaycommunity.com/fat-oyster-reading-series/
Jane Munro’s sixth poetry collection, Blue Sonoma (Brick Books) won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her previous books include Active Pass (Pedlar Press) and Point No Point (McClelland & Stewart). Her work has received the Bliss Carman Poetry Award, the Macmillan Prize for Poetry, the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry (2nd place), was nominated for the Pat Lowther Award and is included in The Best Canadian Poetry 2013. She is a member of the collaborative poetry group Yoko’s Dogs whose first book, Whisk, was published by Pedlar Press. She lives in Vancouver.
Arleen Paré is a Victoria poet and novelist, a graduate of SFU’s TWS program and an MFA graduate in poetry from the University of Victoria. Her first book, Paper Trail, was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Award for Poetry and won the Victoria Butler Book Prize in 2008. Her second book, Leaving Now, a novel, was released in 2012. Lake of Two Mountains, her third book, won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 2014. It was also nominated for the Victoria Butler Book Prize and won the CBC Bookie Award. Paré’s latest poetry collection, He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car was released in September, 2015.
Madeleine Nattrass is retired from teaching in French Immersion programs in Alberta and BC. Vancouver Island is now home though she still misses the shock and awe of prairie seasons. A member of the Federation of BC Writers, her poetry and creative non-fiction has been published in literary magazines and anthologies. A personal essay was short-listed inthe new quarterly’s Edna Staebler Personal Essay competition and will be published in 2016. She has also published independently.
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