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Four Voices: David Watmough, Miles Lowry, Mike Doyle and Brian Brett
On Tuesday, May 12, at 7pm there will be a reading at the Martin Batchelor Gallery at 712 Cormorant Street featuring performances by novelist and poet David Watmough, artist/poet Miles Lowry, Mike Doyle and Brian Brett.
David Watmough
Naturalized
Canadian, David Watmough has been shaped and nourished by a Cornish background
as well as years in London, Paris, New York and San Francisco. All his novels,
short stories, plays and poems, however, have been written on Canada’s
west coast during the past 45 years. Geraldine, his eighteenth book
and thirteenth fiction title, was published in 2007 by Ekstasis Editions. In
2008 he published a book of poems, Coming Down the Pike: Sonnets. After
a lifetime of writing mainly fiction, all of it written in Vancouver, his retreat
to Boundary Bay (one field away from the U.S. border) has marked a significant
change in his work, as these sonnets, broadly in the idiom of those of John
Milton, attest.Miles Lowry
Miles Lowry's most recent book is Blood Orange: The Paul Bowles Poems,
a book that explores the life of novelist Paul Bowles in a snapshot album of
poems and images drawn from years of Lowry's wandering in Bowles's fiction and
biographical remnants. Lowry lives and works in Victoria, British Columbia,
where he is Artistic Co-Director for Suddenly Dance Theatre. His cinematic poem
Opium, based on French poet Jean Cocteau, was produced for Canadian
television and selected for the 2007 Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center
in New York City. A short film, Aisling - We Saw a Vision, was recently
produced for Bravo!fact. Author of five previous books of poetry, he is also
known as a painter, sculptor, photographer and theatrical designer. His work
is seen in a wide variety of exhibitions, performances and publications. Check out: http://www.mileslowry.ca/
Mike Doyle
Mike
Doyle has written numerous books of poetry, as well as books on William Carlos
Williams and James T. Baxter, a biography of Richard Aldington, plus critical
essays on Williams, Wallace Stevens, H.D. and others. In Paper Trombones
Doyle shares musings on poetry – his own and others’ – drawn
from informal journal notes of the past thirty years. Born in London of Irish
descent, Doyle lived in New Zealand before moving to Victoria, BC. As a poet
and academic on three continents, Doyle recalls fascinating encounters with
prominent literary figures – from Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath to Basil
Bunting, Anne Sexton, Robert Creeley, James Wright, Robert Bly, Lawrence Ferlinghetti,
George Woodcock and various Canadian poets. With candid commentary on his wide
reading in poetry, philosophy and criticism, Mike Doyle is a personable guide
to the currents of contemporary literature. Pound, Williams, Stevens, Modernism
and the language and Black Mountain schools, are discussed, as well as Keats,
Coleridge and Hardy, both in terms of the writing and the effect on Doyle’s
poems.Brian Brett
Brian
Brett is a poet, fictionist, critic, journalist, is the author of 10 books.
He has been publishing since 1970. His acclaimed memoir /poetry diptych Uproar’s
Your Only Music was released in 2004. There is also a CD of his ‘Talking
Songs’ called Night Directions for the Lost. His forthcoming book is Trauma
Farm: A Natural History of Living on the Land. He lives with his family on his
farm on Salt Spring Island.HOME | ABOUT | PRESENTERS | PERFORMANCES | WORKSHOPS | EXHIBITORS
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