Darren Greer & Alice Burdick Book Launch
Thursday September 8, 2016  6pm
Literary Gallery / Exhibit Lecture / Seminar Community

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Join us for a very special double-header night with authors Darren Greer and Alice Burdick. We will be celebrating the launch of their respective works "Advocate" (Greer) and "Book of Short Sentences" (Burdick).

Alice Burdick lives and writes poetry in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia and is co-owner of Lexicon Books in Lunenburg. She is the author of three previous books of poetry, "Holler" (2012), "Flutter" (2008), and "Simple Master" (2002), and has been published in numerous anthologies and periodicals.

In "Book of Short Sentences", her ground-breaking fourth collection, her playful and challenging—and often surreal—poems are deeply imbued with the landscape of Nova Scotia’s south shore, as well as her own inner landscape, and the landscape of family. Her poems explore, too, the human vessel in which we carry pain, memory, joy, and existential bewilderment. "Book of Short Sentences" expands the rich palette of this highly praised poet’s work.

“[Burdick's] lines are deceptively elementary, but it’s not simplicity they produce, but complex comprehension.” —George Elliott Clarke, The Halifax Chronicle-Herald

Darren Greer is the author of three novels and a book of essays. He grew up in several towns in Nova Scotia, including Greenfield and Liverpool, and studied literature at the University of King’s College, Halifax. He is the winner of the 2015 Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award Prize for his novel "Just Beneath my Skin", which was also selected as the 2015 One Book Nova Scotia title.

In his latest novel, "Advocate", a man returns to his hometown of Advocate, Nova Scotia, at the wishes of his dying estranged grandmother, and relives the events of his chidhood in the early 80s - a time when the tiny community, fuelled by the hysteria over a then-unknown virus, turned on one of its own, revealing both the evils brought on by fear and ignorance, and the strength and dignity of those who would endure.
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