Poets on Campus welcomes critically acclaimed poet Erin Moure for a Valentine’s Day reading.
The Governor General’s Award-winning poet will read at Vancouver Island University Monday (Feb. 14), at 4 p.m.
In her most recent books, O Cadoiro and O Resplandor, poetry becomes hybrid.
O Cadoiro blends the authorial voice through theoretical reflections with personal experience – a story of impossible love – and a meticulous mind into the old Galician-Portuguese cantigas, a medieval form of poetry.
At Monday’s event, Moure will read from O Resplandor, a collection well-suited to the date.
Moure describes O Resplandor as being “about the love of reading – a love so fierce that it forces a person to translate from languages they don’t even know, just to be able to read. And, it’s about friendship, which is perhaps the most powerful love of all.”
Moure is a Montreal poet whose work, considered experimental, has received several Canadian literary awards. She was also short-listed for the 2006 Griffin Prize for her own work, and for the 2002 and 2008 Griffin Prizes for her poetry translations of Nicole Brossard (with Robert Majzels) from French and Fernando Pessoa from Portuguese.
Poets on Campus takes place in the Nanaimo Campus Library Writing Centre and is open to the public. Moure also reads Feb. 16 at the Poetry Gabriola Reading Series.
For more information on readings in the Poets on Campus series, please visit www.viu.ca/poetsoncampus/schedule.asp.
