A reading in honour of Ken Probert!

All who knew Ken are cordially invited to a literary reading at the
University Club on Friday, March 23rd, beginning at 3:30. All who knew
Ken quickly learned that he loved literature and that he was a keen
social creature, so an event that combines both is a fitting tribute. In
his years as a professor at the University of Regina, he organized many
literary readings at the university and in the community and never
failed to support writers and writing.

Please join the Humanities Research Institute as we remember Ken and his
contributions to our campus and to Saskatchewan and Canadian literary
culture.

Refreshments and food provided by the HRI.

Reading will be award-winning authors Jeanette Lynes and Kathleen Wall.

This event is co-sponsored by the HRI, the Canada Council, and St.
Peter’s College (Muenster).

Jeanette Lynes is the author of five collections of poetry and a novel.
Her most recent books of poetry are The New Blue Distance and It’s Hard
Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems. Her poetry won the 2010 Nick
Blatchford Occasional Verse Award from The New Quarterly and has been
nominated for a National Magazine Award. She has also received the Bliss
Carman Poetry Prize and been shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial
Award. Jeanette’s novel, The Factory Voice, was longlisted for the
ScotiaBank Giller Prize. Her writing has appeared in literary journals
and anthologies in Canada and abroad, and her work has also been featured
on CBC Radio. Jeanette has been a visiting writer at Queen’s University,
Kingston (2008; Department of Gender Studies) and the University
of Manitoba. She was Pathy Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies at
Princeton University in 2003, Writer in Residence at Saskatoon Public
Library (2005-2006)and Northern Lights College, Dawson Creek, B.C.
(Summer 2005), and at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Vancouver
(2011). Currently, Jeanette is Coordinator of the new MFA in Writing at
the University of Saskatchewan.

Kathleen Wall is an award-winning scholar and author of two books of
poetry and a novel and is Professor of English at the University of
Regina. Her poetry collection Time’s Body won a Major Manuscript Award for
poetry from the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. Her novel, Blue Duets, is
published by Brindle and Glass in 2010. As a scholar she has published
widely on writers as varied as Ishiguro, Woolf, Kroetsch, Atwood and
Munro; most recently, her essay on Virginia Woolf’s novel Jacob’s Room
was reprinted in the Norton Critical Edition of the novel. She is
currently working on a book on Virginia Woolf’s aesthetics. In 2001, she
won the University of Regina Alumni Award for teaching.

Ross King Lecture

The HRI welcomes Ross King.

The Backwoods and the Boulevards: The Group of Seven and International Modernism

In 1914 A.Y. Jackson believed he and his new friends – Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven – could forge a new ‘Canadian School’ by painting in the country’s most inhospitable regions. However, many of these young artists were at least as well-served by their artistic training and familiarity with trends in modern art as they were by their outdoor exertions in the Canadian wilderness. This artistic training (including in European studios) helped them to interpret the landscape of the northern woods, making them a uniquely Canadian combination of the backwoods and the boulevards. This illustrated lecture will examine the impact of these eclectic artistic and geographical influences.

Date: October 25, 2011

Time: 7:00pm

Book signing and reception to follow.

Location: Education Auditorium

All Welcome!!

Ross King was raised in North Portal and went to school in Estevan before doing a BA (Hons.) and Masters in the English Department at the University of Regina. He did a Ph.D. at York University and post-graduate work at the University of London before becoming a full-time writer. He has published six books, including two novels and works on Italian and French art. Defiant Spirits: The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven was published in conjunction with an exhibition he curated at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection in 2010.

Bert Almon Reading

The HRI will be hosting a special reading with Bert Almon.

Bert Almon teaches creative writing at the University of Alberta. He shares a poetry masterclass with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott every fall. He has published ten collections of poetry and has been a Hawthorne Fellow in Poetry. His awards include: two Stephan G. Stephansson Prizes for Poetry from the Writers’ Guild of Alberta; the City of Edmonton Book Prize in 2008; and a Citation in Arts and Culture in the City of Edmonton Salute to Excellence Awards. His latest poetry collection is Waiting for the Gulf Stream.

Date: October 4, 2011

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Ad-Hum 348

Reception to follow. All welcome!!

Bert Almon: Selected Bibliography:

Waiting for the Gulf Stream (Hagios Press, 2011)

A Ghost in Waterloo Station (Brindle and Glass, 2007)

Awarded: Stephan G. Stephansson Prize for Poetry (2008)

City of Edmonton Book Prize (2008)

Citation in Arts and Culture in the City of Edmonton Salute to Excellence Awards

Mind the Gap (Ekstasis Editions, 1996)

Earth Prime (Brick Books, 1994)

Awarded: Stephan G. Stephansson Prize for Poetry (1995)

Calling Texas (Thistledown Press, 1990)