ARCHIVE – Chris Cleave and Michael Crummey – $25

[gdlr_button href="https://www.artscommons.ca/WhatsOn/ShowDetails.aspx?show_id=5E8967B2-187C-484D-90C5-F8B2C2E42737" target="_self" size="medium" background="#F26531" color="#ffffff"]Buy Tickets[/gdlr_button] After 5pm on the day of the event, tickets are only available at the door. $25 / no discounts. Join The Banff Centre, Calgary Public Library and Wordfest for an evening with Chris Cleave, acclaimed author of Little Bee, and Michael Crummey, award-winning Canadian poet and author of short stories and novels. Chris Cleave presents his latest novel, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, an epic story of love, loss, prejudice and incredible courage that moves Blitz-torn London to the Siege of Malta. Michael Crummey presents his new collection of selected poems, Little Dog, and his novel, Wreckage. Both authors read from their work and appear in conversation with Mojo Anderson, host of the Writer’s Range Podcast produced by The Banff Centre. [gdlr_notification icon="fa-exchange" type="color-background" background="#d7d7d7" color="#000000"]Have you already purchased tickets to Michael Crummey for Saturday, May 21 @7pm? The Saturday event has regrettably been cancelled. Instead, Michael Crummey is now appearing with Chris Cleave on Friday, May 20, for an extended event from 7pm to 8:45pm.. The Arts Commons Box Office will be in touch with ticket holders about either issuing a refund or an exchange of their tickets for admission to the Friday, May 20 performance. Please phone 403 294 9494 if you have questions about your purchased tickets to the Saturday event.[/gdlr_notification]

About Chris Cleave:

Chris Cleave’s first novel, Incendiary, was published in 20 countries, won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. His second novel, Little Bee, was a New York Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Costa Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. In Canada, it was a national bestseller, and a reader and book-club favourite. Chris Cleave lives in London with his French wife and three mischievous Anglo-French children.

Everyone Brave Is Forgiven

As World War Two begins, Mary—a newly qualified teacher in London, left behind to teach the few children not evacuated—meets Tom, a school official. They quickly fall in love, but this is not a simple love story. [gdlr_divider type="solid" size="100%" ]

About Michael Crummey:

Michael Crummey is the 2015 inaugural recipient of the Writers’ Trust Fellowship and is currently faculty in The Banff Centre’s Literary Arts Program. Michael Crummey has published nine books of poetry and fiction. Galore won the Canadian Authors' Association Fiction Award, the Commonwealth Prize (Canada & Caribbean Region), and was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Governor-General's Award. Sweetland was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Governor-General's Award, the Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, and the BMO Winterset Award. His most poetry collection Under the Keel (Anansi, 2013) was shortlisted for the E.J. Pratt Poetry Prize.

The Wreckage

This novel is a truly epic, yet twisted, romance that unfolds over decades and continents. It engages readers on the austere shores of Newfoundland’s fishing villages and drags them across to Japanese POW camps during some of the worst events of the Second World War. Haunting, lyrical, and deeply intimate, Crummey’s language fully exposes his characters’ vulnerabilities as they struggle to come to terms with their guilt and regret over decisions made during their impulsive youths.

Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems

This exciting volume brings together selections from Michael Crummey’s first four books of poetry with a significant offering of new work. In this collection, Crummey emerges not only as the master storyteller we know him to be, but also as one of our great poets of connection. Whether reporting from a solitary room or a shared bed, recalling the barbed delirium of adolescence, the subtler negotiations of mature love, or the generational echoes between fathers and sons, these poems are deeply engaged in the business of living with others. [gdlr_notification icon="icon-flag" type="color-background" background="#d7d7d7" color="#000000"]Owl’s Nest Books and Gifts will have copies of recent titles books by Chris Cleave and Michael Crummey available for sale online, in advance of the event, and in the venue lobby after their appearance.[/gdlr_notification] Friday, May 20, 2016 Calgary Public Library (Main Branch) – John Dutton Theatre, 616 Macleod Trail SE, 7pm, $25 (General Admission) [gdlr_button href="https://www.artscommons.ca/WhatsOn/ShowDetails.aspx?show_id=5E8967B2-187C-484D-90C5-F8B2C2E42737" target="_self" size="medium" background="#F26531" color="#ffffff"]Buy Tickets[/gdlr_button] After 5pm on the day of the event, tickets are only available at the door. $25 / no discounts. To order by phone, please call the Arts Commons Box Office at 403 294 9494. [gdlr_divider type="solid" size="100%" ]