Poet Laureate Celebrates New Saskatchewan Poets

This week, Saskatchewan's Poet Laureate Judith Krause co-hosted a reading to celebrate authors of new and upcoming poetry collections. I am so honoured that I was chosen to participate!

Selected poets were:

• Cassidy McFadzean, (Hacker Packer); 
• Shelley Banks, (Exile on a Grid Road); 
• dee Hobsbawn-Smith, (Wildness Rushing In); 
• Jim McLean, (The Secret Life of Railroaders; co-author of Wildflowers Across the Prairies). 

The event was co-hosted by the Saskatchewan Writers Guild. The range of work was wonderful, and our thanks to all who attended! We were very lucky to read during Zachari Logan's exhibit, A Natural History of Unnatural Things, an intriguing mix of detailed realism and humour. 

Top: dee Hobsbawn-Smith, reading to the audience;
Middle: Shelley Banks, proving that her hair is still growing; SK Poet Laureate Judith Krause;
Jim McLean and Cassidy McFadzean;
Bottom: Shelley Banks, reading to the room. 

Scenes from the evening. 

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