Reynolds Atelier Visiting Artist Poet Erin Moure at McGill

The McGill Department of English presents
A Talk by the 2011-12 Reynolds Atelier Visiting Artist
“The ExHorbitant Body”

A Reading by Erín Moure

Jan. 31, 4pm
Leacock 232

Open to the Public

Montreal poet Erín Moure writes in English, multilingually.  In O Resplandor (Anansi, 2010) and—with Oana Avasilichioaei—Expeditions of a Chimæra (BookThug, 2009), poetry is hybrid, emerging in translation and collaboration. Other recent books include essays, My Beloved Wager (NeWest, 2009) and a reissued Pillage Laud  (BookThug, 2011). Moure also translates poetry from French, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish, including Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person by Alberto Caeiro/Fernando Pessoa, Nicole Brossard's Notebook of Roses and Civilization—with Robert Majzels—and Chus Pato's m-Talá, Charenton, and Hordes of Writing. Since her first book of poetry in 1979, her workshave received the Governor General's Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, two A.M. Klein Prizes, and were shortlisted three times for the Griffin Poetry Prize and four for the GG. The Unmemntioable, a poetic investigation into subjectivity, immigration and the western borderlands of Ukraine, will appear in February 2012. Moure works as atranslator, lecturer, and communications specialist, and holds an honorary doctorate from Brandon University for her contributions to poetry.
For more information contact Professor Alanna Thain Alanna.Thain [at] mcgill.ca