Planet Earth Poetry: Featuring Maleea Acker and Poetic Opener Frank Wilson
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Join us at Russell Books an evening of poetry. We kick it off with an open mic, and follow up with a poetic opener and a featured reader. Read more about the readers for this evening below!
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Maleea Acker: Maleea Acker is the author of three poetry collections, Hesitating Once to Feel Glory (Nightwood Editions, 2022) and Air-Proof Green and The Reflecting Pool (Pedlar Press, 2009 & 2013), and a non-fiction book, Gardens Aflame: Garry Oak Meadows of BC’s South Coast (New Star, 2013 & 2020), which charts the Indigenous stewardship and current restoration of an endangered Vancouver Island ecosystem. Acker holds a PhD in Human Geography (Geopoetics) as well as an MFA in poetry and an MA in Literature, and lectures at the University of Victoria, Thompson Rivers University and Camosun College. She is also currently a UVic post-doctoral researcher, funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada, where she uses storytelling and art to communicate and urge action against climate change.
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Frank Wilson turned to poetry and short story writing when he retired from academic life in the UK and shortly before he moved, with his wife, to Victoria. He has published three books of short stories in the UK and Canada and (in 2022) a 150 page history of Uplands Golf Club titled “A Walk in the Park”. He has three collections of poetry published in Canada; “Chasing Crows”, “Apple Man” and “Crows in the Apple Tree”. His recent (2021) collection “Village Lines”, which was a joint venture with UK artist Alan Taylor, was designed and published in Victoria but printed in the UK. He is currently pre-occupied with a new collaboration with local artist Tony Fathers, to be titled “Oak Bay and Not Far Away”.
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Notes on Attendance:
Doors at Russell Books open at 7:00 PM.
Participants who wish to read during the Open Mic segment of the event may register between 7:00 - 7:20 PM. Kindly be prepared to adhere to a maximum of three minutes/one poem for your reading.
Masks are encouraged.
If you wish to tune in via Zoom for the featured reader segment of the evening (approximately 8:15-9:00pm Pacific time), please use the following credentials:
Meeting ID: 494 660 4447
Passcode: 2129
You may also access this segment of the event via landline for audio only. Dial +1 778 907 2071.
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Thank you for cooperation and for your continued support of poetry!
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Maleea Acker: Maleea Acker is the author of three poetry collections, Hesitating Once to Feel Glory (Nightwood Editions, 2022) and Air-Proof Green and The Reflecting Pool (Pedlar Press, 2009 & 2013), and a non-fiction book, Gardens Aflame: Garry Oak Meadows of BC’s South Coast (New Star, 2013 & 2020), which charts the Indigenous stewardship and current restoration of an endangered Vancouver Island ecosystem. Acker holds a PhD in Human Geography (Geopoetics) as well as an MFA in poetry and an MA in Literature, and lectures at the University of Victoria, Thompson Rivers University and Camosun College. She is also currently a UVic post-doctoral researcher, funded by Environment and Climate Change Canada, where she uses storytelling and art to communicate and urge action against climate change.
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Frank Wilson turned to poetry and short story writing when he retired from academic life in the UK and shortly before he moved, with his wife, to Victoria. He has published three books of short stories in the UK and Canada and (in 2022) a 150 page history of Uplands Golf Club titled “A Walk in the Park”. He has three collections of poetry published in Canada; “Chasing Crows”, “Apple Man” and “Crows in the Apple Tree”. His recent (2021) collection “Village Lines”, which was a joint venture with UK artist Alan Taylor, was designed and published in Victoria but printed in the UK. He is currently pre-occupied with a new collaboration with local artist Tony Fathers, to be titled “Oak Bay and Not Far Away”.
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Notes on Attendance:
Doors at Russell Books open at 7:00 PM.
Participants who wish to read during the Open Mic segment of the event may register between 7:00 - 7:20 PM. Kindly be prepared to adhere to a maximum of three minutes/one poem for your reading.
Masks are encouraged.
If you wish to tune in via Zoom for the featured reader segment of the evening (approximately 8:15-9:00pm Pacific time), please use the following credentials:
Meeting ID: 494 660 4447
Passcode: 2129
You may also access this segment of the event via landline for audio only. Dial +1 778 907 2071.
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Thank you for cooperation and for your continued support of poetry!
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Where is it happening?
Russell Books, 747 Fort Street www.russellbooks.com,Victoria,BC,Canada
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