Join Caitlin Press for the virtual launch of Yvonne Blomer's The Last Show on Earth: Poems, hosted by Ariel Gordon and with a reading by John Borton
Books available to order through Munro's Books.
In The Last Show on Earth, the award-winning Yvonne Blomer traces the lines from motherhood to caring for our planet and its endangered, wondrous creatures. If 'all the world's a stage,' are we prepared for our last show?
"The Last Show on Earth teems not only with names, but with beings: our desires and pains, the sounds of our breathing. In the midst of great destruction, Blomer’s poems remind us how vibrant our vulnerable world still is.”
—Rob Taylor, author of Strangers and The News
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Ariel Gordon (she/her) is a Winnipeg/Treaty 1 territory-based writer, editor, and enthusiast.
Her most recent books are Treed: Walking in Canada’s Urban Forests (Wolsak & Wynn, 2019), a collection of essays that combines science writing and the personal essay, and TreeTalk (At Bay Press, 2020), a public poetry project where Ariel hangs poems in trees and asks passersby to add their thoughts, ideas, and secrets. She is also the ringleader of Writes of Spring, a National Poetry Month project with the Winnipeg International Writers Festival that appears in the Winnipeg Free Press.
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John Barton is a poet, essayist, editor and writing mentor. His books include Polari, For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin: Selected Poems; Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay-Male Poets; We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos; and The Essential Douglas LePan, which won a 2020 eLit Award. Lost Family, his twelfth collection of poetry, was nominated for the 2021 Derek Walcott Prize. Recipient of three Archibald Lampman Awards, a CBC Literary Award, and a National Magazine Award, he served as writer in residence for the University of New Brunswick, Saskatoon Public Library, and Memorial University. Formerly the co-editor of Arc Poetry Magazine and editor of The Malahat Review, he was born in Edmonton in 1957, raised in Calgary, and now lives in Victoria, where he is the fifth poet laureate.
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Virtual Launch. Audience Q&A to follow.
Free to attend
Online—no software download necessary.
Everyone welcome.
Audience will not have video or mic active.
Event will be livestreamed to YouTube, where it can be rewatched.
Event starts at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time.
If you need subtitles, the event will be simultaneously livestreamed to YouTube which has a closed captioning function.