Insomniac Press Fall Poetry Launch

Olive Senior launches her new poetry collection Shell. Insomniac poets Roseanne Carrara (A Newer Wilderness) and Catherine Graham (Pupa) will also read from their latest works.

As a poet, fiction writer, journalist and editor, Olive Senior is one of Canada's most internationally recognized and acclaimed authors. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for her fiction collection Summer Lightning and a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for her poetry collection Over the Roofs of the World, her body of published work includes four books of poetry, three collections of short stories and several award-winning non-fiction works on Caribbean culture. She divides her time between her native Jamaica and her home in Toronto.

Roseanne Carrara's poetry has won the Malahat Long Poem Prize and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award among other honours. She lives in Toronto. A Newer Wilderness is her first book.

Catherine Graham, a poet and educator, was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and educated in Canada and the United Kingdom. She holds a Masters' degree in creative writing from Lancaster University in England. Her poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio Ulster and have appeared in many journals and anthologies. After living for years in Northern Ireland, she now lives in Burlington, Ontario. Visit www.catherinegraham.com.