Visiting Speaker: Gary Geddes

The McGill English Department Visiting Speaker Series Presents

"Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer’s Search for Justice and Redemption in Africa"

A talk by Gary Geddes

Tuesday, September 20
5pm
Arts 160
Free and Open to the Public

Gary Geddes is a celebrated poet and travel writer who has been compared to Bruce Chatwin and William Least Heat-Moon. He has written or edited more than forty books, which have sold close to half a million copies in seven languages, and has won a dozen literary awards, including the Gabriela Mistral Prize in Chile, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region) in the U.K. and the Lt-Governor's Award for Literary Excellence in Canada. His floating memoir, Sailing Home, and his travelogue, Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things, were both best-sellers.

For more information, contact Professor Alanna Thain.