Gaspereau Goes Green:
Seven Hydrogen-Powered Poets Tackle the Environment

On Monday 2 April 2007 at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (1214 Queen Street West, Toronto), Gaspereau Press will celebrate National Poetry Month and its tenth anniversary in style. Hosted by This is Not A Reading Series, the evening will feature a panel discussion on one of the most important issues of our time: the environment. With the polls now suggesting that the environment will be a top concern with voters in the next election,do Canadian poets have anything to contribute to the debate?

Participating authors include George Elliott Clarke, Allan Cooper, Triny Finlay, Bob Snider, Carmine Starnino, John Terpstra and Harry Thurston. The event will also mark the launch of four new poetry titles from Gaspereau Press: The Alma Elegies by Allan Cooper, Broken Vessel by Harry Thurston, Trudeau, a new dramatic poem by George Elliott Clarke, and Gaspereau Gloriatur, a tenth anniversary anthology of Gaspereau Press poets.

Doors open at 7:00 pm and the panel will begin at 7:30. The event is free of charge, sponsored by This is Not a Reading Series, Pages Books, The League of Canadian Poets and Gaspereau Press.

Background: 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 Alberta Book Award, the A.M Klein Prize, and the Alcuin Award for excellence in book design.

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