Clare Latremouille & Monty Reid at Collected Works Bookstore, Ottawa

Chaudiere Books and Collected Works present:

a reading by Monty Reid & Clare Latremouille
from their new Chaudiere Books titles

Thursday, December 7, 2006 at 7:30pm at Collected Works Bookstore
1242 Wellington Street West (at Holland), Ottawa

author bios:

Widely published as a poet and essayist, Monty Reid has produced a substantial volume of literary work. His volumes include The Life of Riley (Saskatoon SK: Thistledown Press, 1981), These Lawns (Red Deer AB: Red Deer College Press, 1990), The Alternate Guide (Red Deer College Press, 1995), Dog Sleeps (Edmonton AB: NeWest Press, 1993) and Flat Side (Red Deer College Press, 1998), a collection of new and selected poems, Crawlspace (Toronto ON: House of Anansi, 1993), and the chapbooks cuba A book (Ottawa ON: above/ground press, 2005) and Sweetheart of Mine (Toronto ON: BookThug, 2006). His work is also included in the anthology Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets, published as part of the first season of books by Chaudiere Books. He has won the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry three times and is also a three-time Governor General's Award nominee. He spent nearly twenty years working at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, in the heart of the Alberta badlands, before moving to the Ottawa area in 1999 to work at the Canadian Museum of Nature. Disappointment Island is his most recent poetry collection, newly out from Chaudiere Books.

Clare Latremouille has lived in numerous cities across Canada, and has published her work widely, including in the anthologies Written in the Skin (Insomniac Press, 1998), Shadowy Technicians: New Ottawa Poets (Broken Jaw Press, 2000) and Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press, 2003). Her novel The Desmond Road Book of the Dead is her first published book. She currently lives in Ottawa.

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