Poets on Campus reading series starts new year with Hilary Peach

Gabriola Island poet Hilary Peach


performs her distinctive blend of words and music Monday, Jan. 18, at Vancouver


Island University.

Peach, founder


and Artistic Director of the Poetry Gabriola Festival , is a writer, audio


poet, recording artist, arts activist, and producer. She has performed at


events that include the Vancouver International Folk Music Festival, Montreal’s


Festival Voix d’Ameriques, and the


Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam.  

Peach’s


2009 CD, Suitcase Local, is an


adaptation of her touring folk opera of the same name.  This spoken-word and music fusion is a spooky


retelling of her experiences working as a Canadian welder in the construction


and maintenance of power plants in the USA.

Peach’s publications include 10 Flowered Cactus (1996), Love


is a Small Town (2001), and inclusions in various anthologies and


magazines.

Her reading is 4 pm in the Writing Center, (fourth floor of the Library,


Building 305). Admission is by donation. Refreshments will be served after the


reading.

The Poets on Campus reading series features appearances by many of


Canada’s top writers including George Bowering, Feb. 9, Don McKay, Feb. 15,


Michael Turner, March 15, Richard Lemm, March 23 and Kate Braid, April 6.

The series is sponsored by Canada Council for the Arts, the League of


Canadian Poets and VIU’s Faculty Association, Department of Creative Writing


and Dean of Arts and Humanities.

For more on the reading series, visit: viu.ca/poetsoncampus

For more on Hilary Peach including audio samples of her work, visit: hilarypeach.com