At 8 p.m. on Friday, April 28, at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt, authors Patrick Friesen and Eve Joseph will read from their work.
Friesen writes poetry, drama, scripts, songs and text for dance and music. His book The Broken Bowl was short-listed in 1997 for the Governor General's Award. He has also been short-listed twice for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In 1994 Blasphemer's Wheel won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year award in Manitoba. His most recent releases are a book of poems, the breath you take from the lord, and a CD entitled calling the dog home. His poems are "infused with a sense of reverie and innocence, wisdom and clarity, reflections on those things that define who we are and where we come from."
Joseph was born in 1953 and grew up in North Vancouver. She worked on freighters as a young woman and travelled widely before moving to Vancouver Island where she now lives in Brentwood Bay. She has an MA in counselling psychology. She was awarded the Marjorie Peters Award for creative writing while studying at Camosun College and received a Canada Council Award in 2003 to publish a book of ghazals. Her work has been published in a wide number of Canadian and American journals. Her poems appeared in an anthology put out by the League of Canadian Poets in 2000 and will appear in the new Contemporary Northwest Coast anthology to be published in Portland, Oregon in 2006. Her book The Startled Heart was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award in the 2005 B.C. Book Awards.
Admission to these readings is free courtesy of the Canada Council and the Literary Committee of The Sunshine Coast Arts Council. The Arts Council gratefully accepts donations in support of its events and programs.
