September 13, 2010 - 9:38pm
Poetry, past and present, takes centre stage at Vancouver Island University’s Nanaimo campus library Friday and Monday.
On Friday, Sept. 17, Steve Lane, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, focuses on one of the supreme voices of English Romanticism, William Wordsworth.
Lane will look at key events in Wordsworth's long career, including his relationship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the evolution of the book that made him famous, the Lyrical Ballads.
Lane will also reflect on the increasing control over Wordsorth’s public reception and lasting reputation evident in the publications in the 1840s, including biographies and selections, collections, and revisions of poetry.
The presentation, titled Cottage Industry: Creating and Controlling William Wordsworth's Reputation, is part of this year’s Arts and Humanities Colloquium Series. There is no admission charge for the event that will be held 10 to 11:30 a.m. in the Library Boardroom (Room 507, BLDG. 305).
On Monday, Sept. 20, VIU creative writing instructor Susan Juby will read her work in the Library Writing Centre at 4 p.m. Juby is well known for her versatile and wonderfully comedic writing.
Her books have been published all over the world and her Alice MacLeod trilogy was adapted into a thirteen part television series called Alice, I Think that aired on CTV and the Comedy Network.
Juby’s work has been nominated for many awards including the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour. Miss Smithers won the Sheila Egoff Award for Children’s Literature, Another Kind of Cowboy was an ALA Rainbow book and Getting the Girl was nominated for an Edgar Award by the Mystery Writers of America and an Arthur Ellis Award by the Crime Writers of Canada.
Her memoir, Nice Recovery (Viking), was published in 2010 and called “quite simply, an inspiration” in the Globe and Mail.
Admission is by donation to Juby’s reading, the first in this year’s Poets on Campus series.
For more information, visit:
Poets on Campus: http://www.viu.ca/poetsoncampus
Susan Juby: http://www.susanjuby.com
Arts and Humanities Colloquium Series http://www.viu.ca/artsandhumanities/AHEvents.asp
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