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Planet Earth Poetry is pleased to announce that, through a generous gift from Lorna Crozier, we have two sets of numbered limited edition prints of Patrick Lane’s original work from the early 1980s that we will be offering for sale as of March 15, 2020.
Prints are $250 each, payable to Planet Earth Poetry. Shipping costs will be the responsibility of the purchaser. The prints are unframed (protected by a plastic sleeve) and are 15 x 22 inches. Order and pay by e-transfer in an email to Planet Earth Poetry. Please indicate which print or prints you wish to purchase in the email body and use the subject line Lane Prints.
All proceeds from this sale will go toward the on-going work of Planet Earth Poetry.
Thanks to DC Reid for the images of the prints that are posted.
The Planet Earth Poetry reading series is a launching pad for the energies of writers and poets established and not. It is a place where words are most important. A venue in which all manner of poets and writers are welcome; a place for excellence, innovation, collaboration, diverse projects and experiments. The evening begins at 7:15 with an open mic, followed by a featured reader(s). Planet Earth Poetry is located at Hillside Coffee and Tea, 1633 Hillside Ave (across from Bolen Books). Between 6:45 and 7:00, put your name in the hat to read at open mic. Planet Earth Poetry acknowledges with respect that we read and write on the traditional territories of the WSÁNEĆ (Saanich), Lkwungen (Songhees), Wyomilth (Esquimalt) peoples of the Coast Salish Nation.
FRIDAY, february 21, 1:30PM: PLANET EARTH POETRY IN JAMES BAY
Join us for our featured reader, Larry Hannant, as part of the afternoon reading series at New Horizons in James Bay.
Hosted by Sheila Martindale.
february 2020
Richard Osler
friDAY, february 7, 2020
richard osler & sonja greckol
Richard Osler, 68, is a poet , generative poetry workshop faciltator and poetry therapist based on Vancouver Island. In addition to leading an annual ten-day poetry retreat in Italy north of Rome in Umbria he leads poetry retreats in Canada and the U.S. and leads about 75 generative poetry therapy workshops at drug and alcohol recovery centers and a health spa on Vancouver Island. Richard published a poetry chapbook in 2012 through Leaf Press, Where the Water Lives and in 2016 published a full-length poetry collection, Hyaena Season, through Quattro Books in Toronto.He also publishes about 60 poetry blog posts a year through his website recoveringwords.com. His poems have been finalists twice for the Malahat Review's Open Season awards. In a past life Richard was a national business journalist with the Financial Post, a weekly business commentator for nine years on CBC's Morningside radio program with Peter Gzowski and ran his own money management firm Aequanimitas Inc for more than 20 years.
Sonja Greckol’s latest book No Line in Time
Sonja Greckol lives in Toronto and is grateful for subways, LRTs, and bike lanes wherever. She has published three poetry books No Line In Time ( Deck Dog Books, 2020/2018), Skein of Days ( Pedlar Press, 2014), and Gravity Matters (Inanna Press, 2008). Her long poem “No Line In Time” won the 2017 Briar Patch Poetry Contest. Most recently, her e-transtranslation “Dark Matters” of Rocío Cerón’s 'Materia Oscura’ appears in La Presa. Greckol edits poetry for Women and Environments International.
FRIDAY, february 14, 2020
ALL WE NEED IS LOVE: LOVE POEMS AND WINNERS OF OUR LOVE POEM CONTEST
Tonight we celebrate love, whatever meaning it might have. Bring your love poems to read at this all open mic event.
The winners of our Love Poem Contest will be featured, reading their winning poems.
Conrad Scott’s Waterline Immersion
friday, february 21, 2020
conrad scott & Larry Hannant
Conrad Scott graduated from the 2010 Banff Spring Writing Studio. His poetry has appeared in publications like Freefall Magazine and The Enpipe Line. Dr. Scott’s academic work contemplates environmentally dystopian imaginings through remnants of our cultures and his creative work suggests we look askance at our ecological sense of place.
Diversely interweaving the Norse creation myth, colonial Contact with North America, and stories about his grandparents, Conrad Scott’s Waterline Immersion asks fundamental questions about how to understand a place. The writer’s genealogical lines join in the river valleys of Kamloops, British Columbia – the cartographic point where the North and South Thompson rivers meet on their journey away, to the Pacific. Yet Waterline Immersion delves deeper than surface geography and personal history, dredging for cultural stories and environmental futures.
Larry Hannant
A history professor and an award-winning book author and website contributor, Larry Hannant presents history in a variety of formats. He’s the author/editor of three works of non-fiction. In 2019 he published his first volume of poetry, All My Politics Are Poetry (Yalla Press). In it he has assembled forty-five poems that lyrically evoke diverse moments from a political life. They spring from decades of experience as a street-level political activist devoted to progressive causes with remote chance of immediate success. The poems speak to five themes—nature, gender, revolution, compelling historical moments, and poetry in the everyday.
Book information
Published by Yalla Press, Victoria BC
ISBN 9791999289300
Order through YallaPress.ca
Bren Simmers’ Pivot Point
FRIDAY, february 28, 2020
bren simmers & adrienne Gruber
Bren Simmers’ Pivot Point is a lyrical account of a nine-day wilderness canoe trip through the Bowron Lakes Canoe Circuit in British Columbia. At the heart of the expedition are three young women, friends whose lives seem at risk of drifting apart as they approach middle age. Recounted in a journal entry style with poems interleaving each day’s narrative, Pivot Point is a frank reflection on the roles friendship, mindfulness, and creativity play in the evolution of our lives.
Bren Simmers is the author of two poetry collections, Hastings-Sunrise (2015), which was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, and Night Gears. Pivot Point, a lyric memoir about a wilderness canoe trip was published by Gaspereau Press in 2019. A lifelong west coaster, she recently moved to PEI.
Adrienne Gruber’s Q & A
Adrienne Gruber is the author of three books of poetry, Q & A (Book*hug), Buoyancy Control (Book*hug) and This is the Nightmare (Thistledown Press), and five chapbooks. Her chapbook Mimic was awarded the bp Nichol Chapbook Award in 2012. Adrienne lives in Vancouver with her partner and two daughters.
Q & A, is a poetic memoir detailing a first pregnancy, birth and early postpartum period. The poet is both traumatized and transformed by the birth of her daughter. She is compelled by the dark places birth takes her and as she examines and revisits those places, a grotesque history of the treatment of pregnant and birthing women reveals itself.