Susan Holbrook and Mari-Lou Rowley this Wednesday at 4pm

Play Chthonics: Contemporary Canadian Readings presents
Mari-Lou Rowley & Susan Holbrook
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Green College, Graham House 4 pm

Please join us for a poetry reading and conversation with poets Mari-Lou Rowley & Susan Holbrook in the parlour of the Graham House at UBC’s Green College.

Mari-Lou Rowley has published six collections of poetry, most recently CosmoSonnets (JackPine 2007) and Viral Suite (Anvil Press 2004), and her work has appeared in journals anthologies in Canada and the US. A Globe and Mail critic called her work a place where “the subatomic world is a model of spiritual grace.” Uptown Magazine called her poems “haunting” pieces that are sometimes “horrific” in their articulation of nature fighting back.

Susan Holbrook is a poet and fiction writer whose first book, misled (1999) was short listed for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephen J. Stephensson Award. Her long poem chapbook, Good Egg, Bad Seed, was released in the Spring of 2004. One critic called the poems in this chapbook, “a ping pong game you’ll never forget – where the tables keep flipping and players’ ironic bats spin the banal into deadly mischievous curves.” Holbrook teaches English at the University of Windsor.

The Play Chthonics reading series showcases innovative poetry, narrative, and cross-genre writing. We encourage creative, interdisciplinary conversations among writers, students, faculty, theorists, and community members in Vancouver.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Institute for Canadian Studies at UBC, the Department of English at UBC and Green College.