Planet Earth Poetry Series with authors Marita Dachsel, Susan Gillis and Rob Taylor

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Friday, April 19th, 2013
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

Join authors Marita Dachsel, Susan Gillis and Rob Taylor as they read from their latest collections of poetry for the Planet Earth Poetry Series.

MARITA DACHSEL is the author of All Things Said & Done (Caitlin Press, 2007) and the chapbook Eliza Roxcy Snow (rednettle press, 2009). Her poetry has been shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, the ReLit Prize, and has appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011. Her latest collection of poetry is Glossolalia (Anvil Press. 2013) as told in a series of poetic monologues spoken by the thirty-four polygamous wives of Joseph Smith, founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After many years in Vancouver and Edmonton, she and her family have recently relocated to Victoria.

SUSAN GILLIS has lived in Halifax and Victoria, and now lives and writes in Montreal. Her first book of poetry, Swimming Among the Ruins (Signature Editions), was published in 2000, and was followed in 2002 by Volta (Signature Editions), which won the Quebec Writers' Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry in 2003. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies including You and Your Bright Ideas: New Montreal Writing (Vehicule). She teaches at John Abbott College.

ROB TAYLOR was born in Port Moody, BC, and currently lives in Vancouver with his wife, Marta. He has been writing poetry since 2003, and his poetry has appeared in more than forty journals, magazines and anthologies. His individual poems have won multiple awards, including a longlisting in the Best Canadian Poetry anthology. His first book of poetry, The Other Side of Ourselves, which was published in April 2011 from Cormorant Books. Prior to publication, the manuscript for the book won the 2010 Alfred G. Bailey Prize. Rob has also published four chapbooks of poems: splattered earth (2006), Child of Saturday (2008), Lyric (2010) and Smoothing the Holy Surfaces (2012)., the latter two of which were published by The Alfred Gustav Press. In 2004 he co-founded Simon Fraser University's student poetry zine High Altitude Poetry, and in 2007 he co-founded One Ghana, One Voice, Ghana's first online poetry magazine. He was also the poetry editor at Red Fez from 2007 - 2010. In 2011 Rob was part of the team that "resurrected" Vancouver's Dead Poets Reading Series, which he still helps operate as one of the coordinators.