Fitzhenry & Whiteside Poetry Launch 2008

Fitzhenry & Whiteside and authors Alan R. Wilson and Eric Miller invite you to join them in celebrating the official launch of Sky Atlas and The Day in Moss. Hosted by Govenor General's Literary Award nominee Evan Jones. The Fitzhenry & Whiteside Poetry Launch is on Thursday, May 1 at 7:30 p.m. at Bar Italia (www.bar-italia.ca), 582 College Street, Toronto. Free.

**Light Refreshments will be provided**

There is something in the contours of the sonnet, that siren of poetic forms, which can shape the imagination. Sky Atlas, based on the 88 constellations, is itself a sequence of 88 sonnets: some are traditional and others, like the prose sonnet and the hypersonnet, are more subversive, yet still maintain a strong attachment to a poetic terrain.

Alan R. Wilson was born in New Brunswick, and now lives in Victoria, British Columbia. He has degrees in Physics and Creative Writing, and is the author of two previous books of poetry: Animate Objects and Counting to 100. His novel, Before the Flood, was shortlisted for the Ethyl Wilson Prize for Fiction and the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, and won the 2000 Books in Canada/Chapters First Novel Award.

Eric Miller is a poet of place and time. The Day In Moss, his third poetry collection, explores the natural world in his distinctive style. These are Miller's most confident poems, driven by a generosity of intellect and compassion. Eric Miller's second book of poetry In the Scaffolding was shortlisted for the ReLit Award in 2006. His book of prose The Reservoir was shortlisted for the Hubert Evans Prize in 2007.

Host Evan Jones edited New Canadian Poetry, Introductions: Poets Present Poets, and Opening the Island, Anne Compton's debut collection of poetry. His work has appeared in Descant, the Malahat Review, and Queen Street Quarterly. Nothing Fell Today But Rain is Jones's first
collection of poetry.

For more info, please contact:
Maximillian Arambulo
Publicist
Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Tel: 905-477-9700 x 263
max [at] fitzhenry [dot] ca