Vertigo Sept 2014 Poster

Join us on Sunday, September 14th for a talk with Gary Geddes:

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The Writer as Witness with Gary Geddes

Gary Geddes, one of Canada’s most acclaimed poets and editors, will be speaking on The Writer As Witness, at Regina Public Library Main Branch on Sunday, September 14 at 2:00 p.m. Author and editor of 45 books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, translation and anthologies, Geddes is also the recipient of a dozen national and international literary awards, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region) and the Gabriela Mistral Prize from Chile. Gary Geddes has been called one of Canada’s best political poets. Discussion will follow the presentation. This event is sponsored by The Poets Combine, Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Amnesty International, Vertigo Reading Series, and Regina Public Library and supported by The League of Canadian Poets and Canada Council for the Arts.

On Monday evening, Gary will be reading from his new selected poems, What Does A House Want? (Red Hen Press).