Nationally renowned poet visits campus for talks, workshops, and student advising
Award-winning Canadian poet and essayist Erin Mouré is the sixth annual Writer in Residence at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Sponsored by the Department of Creative Studies and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies, this program allows 16 selected local writers to get free critiques on their work.
A prolific and multi-talented writer, Mouré has 18 books to her credit, and 11 books of poetry translated from French, Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese. She has received the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the A.M. Klein Prize (twice), is a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and holds an honorary doctorate from Brandon University.
In 2012, she published her own The Unmemntioable and Secession, her fourth translation of internationally acclaimed Galician poet Chus Pato. In spring 2013, Mouré’s and Robert Majzels’s translation of Nicole Brossard’s White Piano will appear (Coach House).
Erin Mouré, originally from Calgary, works as a freelance editor, translator, and communications specialist in Montreal. She also occasionally teaches Creative Writing (Poetry) at Concordia University.
Mouré will spend two weeks on UBC’s Okanagan campus from Feb. 1-15, 2013, giving a public talk on translation, holding a workshop on poetry translation, and meeting with students to discuss their work one-on-one. Mouré’s free public reading at downtown Kelowna’s Okanagan Regional Library — part of the Visiting Author Series — is Tuesday, Feb. 12, starting at 7 p.m.
Writers in the Central Okanagan are invited to have their work critiqued and to participate in a one-on-one meeting with Mouré. Appointments are limited to 16, with six of the 16 spaces reserved for UBC Okanagan students.