Elusive Birds & Beautiful Books

The jackets are just about ready and it's almost launch time! Join us in celebrating the launch of Soren Bondrup-Nielsen's new memoir A Sound Like Water Dripping: In Search of the Boreal Owl along with a reception for an exhibition of the Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design.


GASPEREAU PRESS, PRINTERS & PUBLISHERS,
in conjunction with
THE ACADIA UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY,
THE VAUGHAN MEMORIAL LIBRARY
and THE ACADIA BIOLOGY DEPARTMENT
invite you to an exciting double event
combining elusive birds and beautiful books

The launch of Soren Bondrup-Nielsen's new memoir

A Sound Like Water Dripping:
In Search of the Boreal Owl

and a reception for an exhibition of the 2008

Alcuin Awards for Excellence
in Canadian Book Design

with remarks by Andrew Steeves of Gaspereau Press

Thursday May 28 at 7:00 p.m.
Acadia University Art Gallery
Beveridge Arts Centre
Wolfville, Nova Scotia

More information: 902 678 6002
info@gaspereau.com

Carmine Starnino at the Drawn & Quarterly Bookstore

Carmine Starnino launched This Way Out in Montreal last week. He was joined by poets, Molly Peacock and Michael Tierney for an evening of readings at the Drawn & Quarterly Boookstore.

Carmine Starnino in Montreal

Carmine Starnino will be launching This Way Out in Montreal this week. He'll be reading with Matthew Tierney and Molly Peacock on May 12th at 7:00 p.m. at La Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 211 Bernard Ouest.

National Poetry Month

Jan Zwicky is a musician, philosopher and award-winning poet. In 1999, she won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry for Songs for Relinquishing the Earth. Her most recent collection of poetry, Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences (GP, 2005), was nominated for the Pat Lowther Award and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. In May 2008, we published a hardcover new-edition of Zwicky's GG-nominated book of philosophy, Wisdom & Metaphor. Zwicky currently teaches philosophy at the University of Victoria.

Today's poem, 'Small Song in Praise of Ears' appears in Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences and Gaspereau Gloriatur: Volume 1 (GP, 2007).

from Gaspereau Gloriatur: Volume 1
Jan Zwicky

Small Song in Praise of Ears

Ah, my mushrooms,
my little fishes!
They laugh
when I tell them
you are beautiful.
Ah, my pink mice,
my infant trolls!

But who among them
has drunk dawn with its
thrush-scented air?
Who but you
has fingered silence,
that dark jewel
burning at night’s throat.

Copyright © Jan Zwicky, 2005