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August 28, 2009

3rd Annual Main-à-Dieu Poetry Reading

poetryFriday August 28th, 7:30 pm. Tickets: $12 ~ includes snacks & drink. Tickets available at the Coastal Discovery Centre, Cape Breton Curiosity Shoppe, or by calling 733-2258. Proceeds to Main-à-Dieu Community Development Association.

Featuring:

Sean Howard: author of the collection local calls, forthcoming from Cape Breton University Press.

Anita Lahey: editor of Arc magazine and author of Out to Dry in Cape Breton (Signal Editions, 2006).

Harry Thurston: author of 20 books of poetry and non-fiction. A compilation of new and selected poems, Animals of My Own Kind, is due to be published by Vehicule Press later this year.

Emcee & Music: Ken Chisholm. Tickets: $12 ~ includes snacks & drink. Tickets available at the Coastal Discovery Centre, Cape Breton Curiosity Shoppe, or by calling 733-2258. Proceeds to Main-à-Dieu Community Development Association.

Sean Howard: author of the collection local
calls, forthcoming from Cape Breton University
Press.
Anita Lahey: editor of Arc magazine and
author of Out to Dry in Cape Breton (Signal
Editions, 2006).
Harry Thurston: author of 20 books of
poetry and non-fiction. A compilation of new
and selected poems, Animals of My Own Kind,
is due to be published by Vehicule Press later
this year.

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