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Reading by poet and film-maker Colin Browne in SFU Special Collections,...

A co-founder of the Kootenay School of Writing and of SFU’s Praxis Centre for Screenwriters, Colin Browne is the author of a number of critically acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently Ground...

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Reading by Novelist Gurjinder Basran in Special Collections, March 14, 2013

North Delta fiction writer Gurjinder Basran is a graduate of SFU’s Writer’s Studio. Her debut novel, Everything Was Good-Bye (2010), which has been described as a ‘Canadian Romeo and Juliet’, was...

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Reading by poets Lissa Wolsak and Stephen Collis in Special Collections,...

Lissa Wolsak, poet and essayist, works as an energy-field therapist and goldsmith in Vancouver. A major collection of her work, Squeezed Light: Collected Works 1994–2005, was published by Station Hill...

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Occupy Vancouver: A Discussion in Special Collections, September 24, 2013

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Reading by Poets Mariner Janes and Dennis E.Bolen in SFU Special Collections,...

Mariner Janes was born in Victoria, BC and raised in East Vancouver. His books include The Monument Cycles (Talonbooks 2013), and blueprint,a chapbook. He has also been published in West Coast Line....

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Reading by poet and film-maker Colin Browne in SFU Special Collections,...

A co-founder of the Kootenay School of Writing and of SFU’s Praxis Centre for Screenwriters, Colin Browne is the author of a number of critically acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently Ground...

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Reading by Novelist Gurjinder Basran in Special Collections, March 14, 2013

North Delta fiction writer Gurjinder Basran is a graduate of SFU’s Writer’s Studio. Her debut novel, Everything Was Good-Bye (2010), which has been described as a ‘Canadian Romeo and Juliet’, was...

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Reading by poets Lissa Wolsak and Stephen Collis in Special Collections,...

Lissa Wolsak, poet and essayist, works as an energy-field therapist and goldsmith in Vancouver. A major collection of her work, Squeezed Light: Collected Works 1994–2005, was published by Station Hill...

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Occupy Vancouver: A Discussion in Special Collections, September 24, 2013

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Reading by Poets Mariner Janes and Dennis E.Bolen in SFU Special Collections,...

Mariner Janes was born in Victoria, BC and raised in East Vancouver. His books include The Monument Cycles (Talonbooks 2013), and blueprint,a chapbook. He has also been published in West Coast Line....

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Poetry Readings in Special Collections on April 15: Madeleine Thien and...

Madeleine Thien, at the time of this reading SFU's Ellen & Warren Tallman Writer in Residence was born in Vancouver, and educated at both SFU and UBC. She is one of the most accomplished and...

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Poetry Readings on October 9: Phinder Dulai and Renee Saklikar

Phinder Dulai is the Surrey-based author of dream/arteries (Talonbooks, Fall 2014) and two previous books of poetry: Ragas from the Periphery (Arsenal Pulp, 1995) and Basmati Brown (Nightwood, 2000)....

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Talk on October 20: Learning from the Wordsworth Trust’s Collections

Dove Cottage, at the heart of the English Lake District National Park, was the home of William Wordsworth during his most creative years. Here he wrote his autobiographical masterpiece‘The Prelude’; it...

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Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection - A Discussion in Special Collections

For the years 1972 to 1992, Sean Griffin and Dan Keeton photographically documented many of the British Columbia social and labour movements. These photographs appeared regularly in the Pacific...

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The Lake District Online Project and the Digital Humanities Part 2

The Lake District Online project, based on a collection of rare books held in SFU Special Collections, aims to create the first full-text electronic archive of Lake District travel writing dating from...

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Poetry Reading on November 25 - Ken Babstock

Newfoundland-born, Toronto-based poet Ken Babstock is the author of On Malice, recently published by Coach House Press, plus four previous collections of poetry, all of which have received critical...

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Readings by Writers, Rita Wong and Christine LeClerc

Rita Wong grew up in Calgary and currently lives in Vancouver. She has a doctorate from SFU and is the author of three books of poetry, Monkeypuzzle (1998), Forage (2007, winner of the Dorothy Livesay...

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