Scream Book-Length Dinner..... If Hope Disorders Words: Dennis Lee Reprised.

Cost: $40 for dinner plus reading, $15 for reading only

This book-length dinner is one of The Scream Literary Festival’s most prized annual traditions.

One of Canada’s foremost literary talents revisits his classic, Governor General’s Award-winning Civil Elegies, alongside the recent, visionary poetry of Un and yesno.

The City of Toronto Archives provides the setting for this year’s prestigious Book-Length Dinner Reading, as Dennis Lee looks to his storied past and plots a course for poetry’s future. Civil Elegies (1968) is widely regarded as a seminal work of Canadian literature, a mix of trenchant politics, everyday civic life and the joy of language.

Un (2003) and yesno (2007) are scathing political commentaries told in dissolving and dissolute language, avant-garde treatises that mark a daring departure from his earlier works while reinvesting in his consummate musicality.

A three-course dinner will be provided by Juniper Catering, with vegetarian options available.

For more info and tickets, see http://thescream.ca/node/337
or phone 416.466.8862

Sponsored by Open Book Toronto.

**Photo credit: Susan Perly**