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Beverley Bie Brahic: Online Poetry Reading with Poetry Breakfast
Thursday 13 Feb 2025, 09:00 to 10:00
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Description:
Join us online the morning of February 13th, when Beverley Bie Brahic will be the featured reader on Poetry Breakfast's Valentine's Day event. Beverley will be reading a selection of poems centred around the theme 'Poetic Erotic'. The Zoom link will be sent out a day or two before the event, and we ask that attendees sign in to the Zoom between 8:50-9am. This event is free for first time attendees.
To sign up, contact Anna Dreda, info@wenlockbooks.co.uk, by 6pm on Wednesday 12th February.
Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, Beverley Bie Brahic grew up in Vancouver; today she lives in France. Apple Thieves is her fifth collection of poetry after Catch and Release, winner of the 2019 Wigtown Book Festival Alistair Reid Pamphlet Prize; The Hotel Eden; The Hunting of the Boar, a 2016 PBS Recommendation; White Sheets, a 2013 Forward Prize finalist for Best Collection and PBS Recommendation; and Against Gravity. Her many translations include books by Yves Bonnefoy, Hélène Cixous, and Charles Baudelaire; The Little Auto, her selection of Guillaume Apollinaire's First World War poems, was awarded the 2013 Scott Moncrieff Translation Prize; Francis Ponge: Unfinished Ode to Mud, was a finalist for the 2009 Popescu Translation Prize. She has received a Canada Council for the Arts Writing Grant and fellowships at Yaddo and MacDowel.
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