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Antony Di Nardo Ontario	Jon Paul Fiorentino Québec	M.T. Kelly* Ontario
Erín Moure Québec	John Steffler Ontario

Antony Di Nardo, Ontario

Antony Di Nardo is a striking new voice with two books published in spring 2010: Soul On Standby (Exile Editions) and his first collection, Alien, Correspondent (Brick Books). He was born in Montreal and has lived in northwestern Ontario, Toronto, Germany, and Beirut. His poetry appears widely in journals across Canada and internationally. Both writer and teacher, he has made his mark through lyric poems in which we are told stories of a wry seriousness undercut by the slyly hilarious. Read more

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Jon Paul Fiorentino, Québec

Jon Paul Fiorentino is the author of the novel Stripmalling, which was shortlisted for the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, as well as three poetry collections, including The Theory of the Loser Class, which was shortlisted for the A. M. Klein Prize. His most recent collection is Indexical Elegies. He lives in Montreal, where he teaches writing at Concordia University, edits Matrix magazine and runs Snare Books. Read more

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M.T. Kelly*, Ontario

M.T. Kelly’s most popular and critically acclaimed novel, A Dream Like Mine, won the Governor General's Award and was filmed in 1989 as Clearcut. His other fiction includes I Do Remember the Fall, The More Loving One and The Ruined Season. He also published two poetry collections - the acclaimed collection Country You Can't Walk In, and his latest, Downriver. Read more

* We regret that M.T. Kelly will not be appearing at the festival.

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Erín Moure, Québec

Erín Moure is one of Canada's most respected poets, and a translator of French, Spanish, Galician and Portuguese. She is the author of 13 books of poetry, has received the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the A.M. Klein Prize, and has been a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her most recent books are O Resplandor, Expeditions of a Chimæra (co-written with Oana Avasilichioaei) and a book of essays, My Beloved Wager. Read more

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John Steffler, Ontario

John Steffler was the Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada from 2006 to 2008. His previous books of poetry include The Grey Islands, That Night We Were Ravenous, winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and Helix: New and Selected Poems, winner of the Newfoundland and Labrador Poetry Prize. Steffler is also the author of the award-winning novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright. His latest collection of poetry is Lookout. Read more

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Host: Rhea Tregebov
Friday, October 22, 2010 - 10:00am - 11:30am
Studio 1398
$17 / $8.50 for student groups

In poetry, we let language off the leash, according to former Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada, John Steffler. Erín Moure, one of Canada’s preeminent poets, holds a similar opinion, claiming that even two words placed together can open up a world. Together with Antony Di Nardo and Jon Paul Fiorentino, these four poets explore the shaping of language at the level of the sentence rather than the chapter, as fi ction writers do. These poets will talk, as only poets can, about the concentration of energy and meaning in the poetic form. Set aside some time this morning to get excited by
words as building blocks and the surprise of new meanings contained in familiar words. Come see some of Canada’s best poets at work and at play.

Suitable for Grades 10 to 12 and adults

* Programming details have changed since the Festival Program was printed:
We regret that M.T. Kelly will not be appearing at the festival.