A University of Windsor graduate has won a coveted Governor General’s award for his latest collection of poetry.
Killdeer, a book of poems and essays by two-time UWindsor alumnus Phil Hall (BA 1976, MA creative writing 1978) won the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry, the Canada Council for the Arts announced yesterday.
In some ways, the Germanic epic Beowulf fits one definition of tragedy, says Lois Smedick: as a fight to the death in a narrow place against odds.
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with its interplay between the ridiculous and some deadly intentions, may speak more readily to our take, nowadays, on the world,” she says.
From a first meeting with Lenore Langs, you might get the mistaken impression she’s not a big fan of dub poetry or graphic novels.
Whether she’s an avid consumer of those genres, however, seems irrelevant. As a key organizer of BookFest Windsor, her interest is in promoting literature in all its forms, and keeping the three-day event fresh and current is her number one priority.
Phil Hall published his first book of poetry while still an undergraduate studying drama and English at the University of Windsor.
The 1973 collection, Eighteen Poems, was printed in Mexico City, he recalls: “typeset by people who didn’t speak English. It was full of typos.”
The gorgeous early-autumn weather this week has students wearing t-shirts and shorts and everyone enjoying the sunshine.
George Kalivas, the new social media coordinator in the Office of Public Affairs and Communications, took advantage of Wednesday’s balmy temperature to hit the campus and record his walk.
Saying he loves university life, his students and teaching, English professor Tom Dilworth is glad to have been elected to the Royal Society of Canada but thinks it would be a mistake to think it means much.
The society named him to its academy of the arts and humanities in September; he will be inducted during a ceremony on Saturday, November 26, at the Ottawa Convention Centre.
“It just means that you have worked hard and published a lot,” says Dr. Dilworth. “What does make it important for me is that I was nominated by Byron Rourke.”
Poet Alan Davies, the university’s new writer-in-residence, will offer a free public reading of his work this Wednesday.
A book by a UWindsor graduate has been selected as the subject of a city-wide read-a-thon next week.
Windsor Reads will feature public readings of Alexander MacLeod’s bestselling first book of short stories, Light Lifting, short-listed for both the Booker and the Giller Prizes.
“It’s a celebration of Windsor’s literary talent and the written word,” says Sarah Jarvis, a volunteer with Literary Arts Windsor. “We’re bringing book readings to where Windsor’s citizens live, work, study -- and even heal.”
Like most North American children, Sandra Stephens would have grown up with classic fables such as The Tortoise and the Hare and The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
How the Crow Became Black was a new one on her. A fourth-year English major with a minor in anthropology, Stephens came across two variations of the tale this summer while she was researching First Nations oral traditions on the Wasauksing Ojibwe reserve near Parry Sound, Ontario.
Award-winning journalist, poet, playwright, historian, photographer and editor Marty Gervais holds the position of resident writing professional in the English department.
Today’s quiz gives DailyNews readers a chance to learn a little more about him, as well as the opportunity to win a couple of his most recent books, courtesy of the University Bookstore—the 30th anniversary edition of The Rumrunners, and a copy of his memoir, Afternoons with the Devil.
