Canada's most generous poetry award, founded by businessman and philanthropist Scott Griffin.
Title: The Word On the Street – Halifax
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Description: The Word On The Street is Canada’s national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere.
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Date: September 23, 2012
Title: The Word On the Street – Toronto
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Description: The Word On The Street is Canada’s national celebration of literacy and the written word. Each September, in communities coast to coast, the public is invited to participate in hundreds of author events, presentations and workshops and to browse a marketplace that boasts the best selection of Canadian books and magazines you’ll find anywhere.
Learn more here.
Date: September 23, 2012
Title: Poets Read at Governors Island
Location: New York, New York, US
Description: Yusef Komunyakaa, Tan Lin, Paul Muldoon and Brenda Shaughnessy will read from their work amid large-scale steel sculptures by Mark di Suvero on Governors Island.
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Date: September 22, 2012
Brisbane Writers Festival has been celebrating reading, writing and ideas with the people of Queensland for fifty years. Renowned for its energy and casual intellect, BWF brings together readers, writers, innovators, and provocateurs within the cultural precinct on the Brisbane River in the heart of the city.
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Title: Lecture: Portraits of Writers: David Harsent on Seamus Heaney
Location: London, England
Description: Inspired by the display On Paper: Portraits of Writers, poet and script-writer David Harsent discusses the work of Seamus Heaney. David will focus on a number of poems that highlight Heaney’s unique gift for writing.
This event is a joint presentation of the National Portrait Gallery and The Royal Society of Literature.
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Date: September 13, 2012
Title: Reading and Writing through Alice Notley’s Grave of Light: a poetry workshop
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs every Sunday from September 9th to December 9th, except October 7th), participants in person and online will study the work of Alice Notley, engaging her book Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005. This book of poetry will generate conversation and strategies for the writing participants enact.
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Date: September 16, 2012
Title: Reading and Writing through Alice Notley’s Grave of Light: a poetry workshop
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs every Sunday from September 9th to December 9th, except October 7th), participants in person and online will study the work of Alice Notley, engaging her book Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005. This book of poetry will generate conversation and strategies for the writing participants enact.
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Date: September 23, 2012
Title: Reading and Writing through Alice Notley’s Grave of Light: a poetry workshop
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs every Sunday from September 9th to December 9th, except October 7th), participants in person and online will study the work of Alice Notley, engaging her book Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005. This book of poetry will generate conversation and strategies for the writing participants enact.
Learn more here.
Date: September 30, 2012
Title: Reading and Writing through Alice Notley’s Grave of Light: a poetry workshop
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs every Sunday from September 9th to December 9th, except October 7th), participants in person and online will study the work of Alice Notley, engaging her book Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005. This book of poetry will generate conversation and strategies for the writing participants enact.
Learn more here.
Date: October 14, 2012
Title: Reading and Writing through Alice Notley’s Grave of Light: a poetry workshop
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / online
Description: In this workshop (which runs every Sunday from September 9th to December 9th, except October 7th), participants in person and online will study the work of Alice Notley, engaging her book Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005. This book of poetry will generate conversation and strategies for the writing participants enact.
Learn more here.
Date: October 21, 2012