Date: Saturday, October 17
Time: Doors 9:30 am, Program 10:00 am
Venue: Rice Theatre @ The Citadel
Tickets: $20 / $10 (student/low income)

Featuring: Alice Major and Richard Harrison

Alice Major in conversation with Richard Harrison is a must-see LitFest event where both authors will discuss their respective books, Triangularity and My Mother Joins the Resistance.

Alice Major has just launched Triangularity: Essays on science, spirit and poetry — a timely, approachable mingling of big ideas about how things fit together. She has previously published 12 collections of poetry and an earlier prizewinning book of essays. Alice has also been active in building Edmonton’s writing community over the past three decades. She served as Edmonton’s first poet laureate and founder of the Edmonton Poetry Festival, and was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Alberta.

In this latest collection Richard Harrison has created a companion to his Governor General Award–winning collection On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood. In My Mother Joins the Resistance, Harrison considers his mother’s life – from her time as a child during WWII’s Operation Pied Piper, up until its end, in 2017, when terminally ill with cancer, she chose MAiD – with elegant, deeply felt poetry. These are beautiful poems, ones that piece together a person, a life and a family over generations. These are poems that examine the wounds passed down through a family, alongside the love, and see the echoes of both – the wounds and the love – in the world around us.