Upcoming Event: A Gaspereau Evening
12 April 2005

Gaspereau Press invites you to attend an evening of words and music in celebration of National Poetry Month. “A Gaspereau Evening” will take place on Tuesday, April 12, 2005 at the Al Whittle Theatre, 450 Main Street, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and will begin at 7:30 pm. The evening will include readings by poets Ross Leckie, Peter Sanger and Harry Thurston. Gaspereau Press will be releasing new books by all three authors this year. This event will also feature music by Halifax-based musician Amelia Curran. Books and CDs can be purchased on-site from Box of Delights bookstore and refreshments will be available for sale by Just Us Café.

GASPEREAU PRESS is a literary publisher and printer based in Kentville, Nova Scotia. The press is committed to literature and the book arts, incorporating a range of modern and antique forms of printing and binding to create books that are distinctive in manufacture and design. Its publications have won numerous literary awards, including the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Evelyn Richardson Prize and the Alcuin Award for excellence in book design.

ROSS LECKIE'S third collection of poems, Gravity’s Plumb Line, will be released from Gaspereau Press in April 2005. He is currently Director of Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. His previous collections are A Slow Light (1983) and The Authority of Roses (1997).

PETER SANGER'S new non-fiction title, White Salt Mountain: Words in Time, will be released from Gaspereau Press in May 2005. Sanger is the author of five collections of poetry, including Earth Moth (1991) and Ironworks (2001), a collaboration with photographer Thaddeus Holownia. Sanger lives on a farm in South Maitland, Nova Scotia.

HARRY THURSTON'S long poem, A Ship Portrait, will be released from Gaspereau Press this fall. Thurston is the author of several collections of poetry, and has travelled widely as a freelance writer for many of North America’s leading magazines, including Audubon and National Geographic. His A Place Between the Tides was shortlisted for the 2004 Drainie-Taylor biography prize. Thurston lives in Tidnish Bridge, Nova Scotia.

AMELIA CURRAN is a three-time East Coast Music Awards nominee and the founder of Gunner Records. Originally from St. John’s, Newfoundland, Curran is now based in Halifax. She has released three albums to date and is currently at work on the fourth.

For more information contact
Beth Crosby at Gaspereau Press
47 Church Avenue, Kentville, NS, B4N 2M7
902-678-6002, info@gaspereau.com