When facing the death of a loved one, we all struggle to work through the pain and grief. Whether poetic, meditative, or introspective, these three authors discuss the ways we process loss and how we may come through to a place of peace.
Hybrid events are held in person, you will also be able to watch it live streamed from our Youtube channel.
Location: Room C440, UBC Robson Square
Type: Poetry, Non-fiction
Moderator: Rob Taylor
Readers: Lorna Crozier, After That (Penguin Random House) | Eve Joseph, In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying (Anvil Press) | Tara McGuire, Holden After and Before: Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose (Arsenal Pulp Press)
About The Moderator
Rob Taylor is the author of Strangers (Biblioasis, 2021) and three other poetry collections. He is also the editor of What the Poets are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation and the guest editor of Best Canadian Poetry 2019. His fifth poetry collection, Weather, will be published in Spring 2024 by Gaspereau Press. He lives in Port Moody, BC, on the unceded territories of the Kwikwetlem, Tsleil-waututh, Musqueam, Squamish and Sto:lo peoples.
About The Readers
An Officer of the Order of Canada and the recipient of several national awards, including the Governor-General's Award for Poetry, Lorna Crozier lives on Vancouver Island between the traditional villages of Tsartlip and Tseycum. Her latest book, Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats) was listed by both the Globe and Mail and McLean's Magazine as one of the top books of 2020. It was also nominated for the prestigious Hilary Weston Award for Nonfiction. She has read her poetry on every continent except Antarctica and has had her work translated into several languages, including two book-length collections in Spanish and French.
Tara McGuire is a former broadcaster whose first book Holden After & Before — Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose, a hybrid work in memoir and fiction exploring grief, motherhood, and the overdose crisis was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in the fall of 2022. Her essays have appeared in Chatelaine, The Globe and Mail, Geist, Room, The Tyee, and on CBC Radio. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia’s School of Creative Writing and is a graduate of The Writers Studio at Simon Fraser University. Tara lives under the tall trees of North Vancouver, BC. *for print or online: Follow her on Insta: @TaraMcGuire and Twitter: @TaraJMcGuire
Eve Joseph lives and writes on the unceded traditional territories of the Lekwungen peoples. Her first two books of poetry The Startled Heart (Oolichan, 2004) and The Secret Signature of Things (Brick, 2010) were both nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award. Her nonfiction book In the Slender Margin was published by HarperCollins in 2014 and won the Hubert Evans award for nonfiction. Her most recent book of poetry Quarrels (Anvil, 2018) was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award, The ReLit Award and won the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize.
