Lorna Crozier and Cassidy McFadzean Read Poetry at Vertigo

Lorna Crozier (The Wrong Cat) and Cassidy McFadzean (Hacker Packer) read from their new poetry collections from McClelland & Stewart at the Vertigo Reading Series in Regina, SK, on Monday.

Barbara Kahan of Wild Sage Press also read from her father's memoir (Tending the Tree of Life, by Irwin Kahan), and drummer Flo Mounier (with Troy Bleich on guitar) provided the music.

It was the last Vertigo reading of the season, and the room was overflowing with friends and fans. Some images from the night...

Regina poet Cassidy McFadzean takes to the podium
for the Regina launch of her new book,
Hacker Packer. 

Lorna Crozier greets the crowd. 

Barbara Kahan holds up a photograph of her father,
Irwin Kahan. 

Music! With Troy Bleich (Into Eternity/Digital Doomzday/Planet Eater)
and Flo Mounier (Cryptopsy/Digilal Doomzday)  

Lorna Crozier 

Barbara Kahan

Cassidy McFadzean gets ready to sign her book. 

Tara Dawn Solheim opens the evening.

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Congrats and changes: Coteau Books

Congratulations to Regina book publishers, Coteau Books, on their 40th Anniversary!

Good luck to former publisher, Nik Burton, on his retirement — and to the new publisher, John Agnew.

Nik Burton raises a glass.

John Agnew and Saskatchewan Poet Laureate Judith Krause

Congrats on 40 years of Saskatchewan publishing!  And Moving Out (a collection by Robert Currie) Thanks, Nik! 

(More of my event pix are on the Coteau site.) 

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Lloyd Ratzlaff launches Bindy's Moon in Regina

Saskatoon writer Lloyd Ratzlaff was in Regina in early June to launch his new book of essays, Bindy's Moon (Thistledown Press).

He also offered a language lesson, with help on the concepts of time and space from Regina writer Gerry Hill, who also read from his latest, Hillsdale Book. 

Lloyd Ratzlaff, with Bindy's Moon — and a lesson in ... Old German? 

Pay attention, class! 
Gerald Hill, in his old classroom at Luther College, University of Regina,
explaining the concepts of Time and Space. 

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