ARCHIVE – The Banff Centre and Wordfest present Michael Crummey – CANCELLED

THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED. HOWEVER, YOU MAY SEE MICHAEL CRUMMEY ON FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2016, APPEARING ALONGSIDE AUTHOR CHRIS CLEAVE. More information... Join The Banff Centre, Calgary Public Library and Wordfest for an evening with Michael Crummey, award-winning Canadian poet and author of short stories and novels. Crummey is the 2015 inaugural recipient of the Writers’ Trust Fellowship and is currently faculty in The Banff Centre’s Literary Arts Program. The event features readings from recent work and an on-stage interview with Mojo Anderson, followed by a book signing. 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 recent poetry collection Under the Keel (Anansi, 2013) was shortlisted for the E.J. Pratt Poetry Prize. Recent books The Wreckage 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 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. Owl’s Nest Books and Gifts will have copies of recent titles by Michael Crummey available for sale in the lobby of the John Dutton Theatre, after his event. THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED. HOWEVER, YOU MAY SEE MICHAEL CRUMMEY ON FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2016, APPEARING ALONGSIDE AUTHOR CHRIS CLEAVE. More information... [gdlr_divider type="solid" size="100%" ]