McClelland & Stewart Poetry Launch

McClelland & Stewart invite you to celebrate three extraordinary poetry collections: Orphic Politics by Tim Lilburn, The New Layman's Almanac by Jacob McArthur Mooney and The Dream World by Alison Pick. The launch is at Mitzi's Sister on Tuesday, April 8 from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m.
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Tim Lilburn was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has published six poetry collections, including Kill-site (2003), winner of the Governor General’s Award; To the River (1999), winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year; Moosewood Sandhills (1994), winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry; and Tourist To Ecstasy (1989), a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. His poems have been widely anthologized. He now lives in British Columbia, where he teaches at the University of Victoria.

Jacob McArthur Mooney is a Nova Scotian now living in Mississauga, Ontario. He is an editor with the always controversial web journal ThievesJargon.com and the founder of The Facebook Review. A graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland, he is currently an MFA student at the University of Guelph. His work has been widely published, and in 2006 he was shortlisted for the CBC Literary Award in Poetry. The New Layman’s Almanac is his first book.

Alison Pick’s writing has appeared in The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, and enRoute Magazine. Her first collection of poems, Question & Answer, was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award and the E.J. Pratt Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. In 2002, Pick won the Bronwen Wallace Award for most promising Canadian poet, and her poetry has gone on to win the National Magazine Award and the CBC Literary Award. Her first novel, The Sweet Edge, was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of the Year. Alison Pick lives in Toronto.