Tuesday, September 10

Mathew Henderson + Moez Surani

6:45p Workshop Translitic with Sandra Ridley
8:00p Readings Open Mic and Featured Readers

Mathew Henderson

Author of The Lease (Coach House Books, 2012), nominated for the 2013 Trillium Book Award for Poetry

Mathew Henderson is a recent graduate of the University of Guelph’s MFA program. His first collection of poems, The Lease, was published by Coach House Books in 2012. Originally from Prince Edward Island, he now lives in Toronto, writes about the prairies and teaches at Humber College.

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Moez Surani

Award winning poet, author of Floating Life (Wolsak and Wynn, 2012)

Moez Surani's poetry has been included in numerous anthologies and literary journals, including The Literary Review of Canada, Globe and Mail and The Walrus. He has attended writing residencies in Finland, Latvia and Switzerland, and his writing has won the Chalmers Arts Fellowship, the Kingston Literary Award and the Antigonish Review’s Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest. His first collection, Reticent Bodies (2009), was described as "that rare book that has the power to be a linchpin, a hinge in the history of Canadian poetry.” His second collection is Floating Life (2012).

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