The Sunshine Coast Arts Council launches its spring 2012 literary series with a reading by Vancouver poet, novelist and journalist, George Fetherling on Saturday, Feb. 18, in Sechelt.
Fetherling has written and/or edited more than 50 books, including two novels and at least a dozen books of poetry. A prolific travel writer, his work also includes memoirs, travel, criticism and history.
In 2010 Fetherling published both The Sylvia Hotel Poems, exciting much Vancouver buzz, and the novel Walt Whitman's Secret, which garnered him enthusiastic international attention.
Described by some as "brilliant and eccentric," Fetherling has written under at least three names, Doug and Douglas and only more recently as George, his second given name. Of himself, he says, "Sometimes I joke that I am an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth."
Fetherling was awarded a D. Litt (honoris causa) by St. Mary's University, Halifax in 1997, Toronto's Harbourfront Festival Prize "for substantial contribution to Canadian literature" in 1995, and short-listed for the Trillium Award for the much acclaimed Travels By Night: A Memoir of the Sixties (1994).
The reading takes place in the Doris Crowston Gallery of the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre at 8 p.m. The reading is free, thanks to the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the SC Arts Council.
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