The Sunshine Coast Hospice Society is pleased to sponsor a reading by Eve Joseph from her book In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying. The reading will take place at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre on Thursday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m.
Joseph is a highly regarded, award-winning poet who also worked at Victoria Hospice for over 20 years. Her wonderful book (part memoir, part meditation) is an exploration of death from an “insider’s” point of view.
Woven with threads from her brother’s early death and her years working in palliative and hospice care, Joseph also uses history, religion, philosophy, literature, mythology and poetry to create a rich tapestry that will help all of us better understand and deal with that mysterious passage from life into death as well as the grief that inevitably comes to those of us who are temporarily left behind.
This is neither an academic text nor a self-help manual; rather, it is a journey into the land of death and dying as seen through the lens of art and the imagination.
Filled with literary allusions and references, from Joan Didion and Susan Sontag to D. H. Lawrence and Voltaire, this is a highly absorbing and inspired consideration of how we die and how we deal with death, a profoundly moving and helpful meditation on the mystery that awaits us all.
Admission to the reading is by donation and autographed copies of In the Slender Margin will be available for purchase. The Hospice Society would also like to acknowledge the generous financial support provided by both the District of Sechelt and the Writers’ Union of Canada.
The Arts Centre is located at 4714 Medusa St. in Sechelt.
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