Word Vancouver - 2016 Program Guide
Word Vancouver is Western Canada's largest celebration of literacy and reading. The festival takes place during the last week of September: September 21–25, 2016.
Word Vancouver is Western Canada's largest celebration of literacy and reading. The festival takes place during the last week of September: September 21–25, 2016.
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3:40 PM bill bissett (Toronto) Adopted by: Quills Canadian Poetry Magazine<br />
th book (Talonbooks $ 19.95)<br />
Presented with the financial assistance of the Canada Council through The Writers’<br />
Union of Canada<br />
New poems from Canada’s shaman of sound and performance poetry, bill<br />
bissett. bissett’s innovations in sound poetry shaped poetry, music, painting,<br />
and publishing and have stimulated, provoked, influenced, shocked, and<br />
delighted audiences for half a century. In this new collection of concrete<br />
poems, bissett writes “poemes uv greef transisyun n sumtimes joy byond<br />
binaree constraints if evreething goez what is aneething accepting nihilism<br />
lettr texting as an approach 2 heeling sorrow denial.” A pioneer of sound,<br />
visual, and performance poetry, bill bissett garnered international attention<br />
in the 1960s as a pre-eminent figure of the counter-culture movement in<br />
Canada and the U.K.<br />
HOST: EVELYN LAU<br />
ABPBC<br />
4:00 PM Poetry in Transit<br />
Presented by the ABPBC<br />
ASSOCIATION OF BOOK PUBLISHERS OF BC<br />
This year the Association of Book Publishers<br />
of BC partners with TransLink, BC Transit,<br />
and the City of <strong>Vancouver</strong> on this popular<br />
project to celebrate our province’s poetry. In celebration<br />
of the project’s 20th anniversary, buses and SkyTrains<br />
throughout BC will feature the work of 20 BC poets,<br />
produced by Canadian publishers. A transit bus on site at<br />
<strong>Word</strong> <strong>Vancouver</strong> will display this year’s poetry cards. Don’t<br />
miss readings in the Sunrise Suite from featured <strong>2016</strong><br />
poets Elena Johnson, Michael Johnson, Pamela Porter,<br />
Karen Shklanka, Susan Telfer, and Jennifer Zilm.<br />
Colouring Books for Adults<br />
Look for a colouring book activity area at this year’s festival in<br />
The Underground!<br />
Colouring book pages generously provided from the following<br />
BC-published books:<br />
Colour the British Columbia Coast by Yvonne Maximchuk<br />
(Harbour Publishing)<br />
Jean Cocteau Coloring Book, translated by David Homel<br />
(Arsenal Pulp Press)<br />
Yves Saint Laurent Coloring Book<br />
(Arsenal Pulp Press)<br />
My Divorce: A Coloring Diary<br />
(Self-Counsel Press)<br />
Spirit of the Wild, artwork by Erica Neumann and poetry by<br />
Dawn Sprung<br />
(Heritage House Publishing)<br />
And, subTerrain Magazine’s special colouring issue!<br />
Sunrise Suite<br />
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