International Readings at Harbourfront - Don Domanski, Randall Maggs, Alison Pick April 16, 2008

In honour of National Poetry Month, three of Canada's finest share poems of life, living, loving, leaving ... and hockey. Jay MillAr hosts.

Don Domanski was born and raised on Cape Breton Island and now lives in Halifax. He has published eight books of poetry and won the 2007 Governor General’s Award for poetry for All Our Wonder Unavenged, from which he now reads at IRAH.

Randall Maggs was born in Vancouver and grew up on the move in a military family, mainly on the west coast and the prairies as well as various places in Montreal, Fredericton and Halifax.

Jay MillAr runs BookThug, an independent publisher that promotes innovative and trailblazing work from emerging and established North American writers.

Alison Pick is the winner of the National Magazine Award for Poetry, the Bronwen Wallace Award for Poetry, and the CBC Literary Award for Poetry. Her writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Walrus, the National Post and enRoute magazine.

Official Website: http://www.readings.org/?q=weekly/don_domanski_randall_maggs_alison_pick