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Visit Concordia Monday November 25th at 11AM in the John Molson Building (MB2.130) for a free public reading from Griffin Prize winning poet Ken Babstock.

A conversation too lengthy to broadcast. Listen to it here.

Canadian poet Ken Babstock will be giving a free public reading at Concordia on Monday, November 25th at 11AM in the John Molson Building (MB 2.130). You won’t wanna miss it!

Find the answer here from an interview in the National Post.

Ken Babstock will be reading at Concordia on Monday, November 25th at 11AM in the John Molson Building (MB 2.130), second floor, lobby.

Sky a motif of cowslip in clear ice,
mayflies make moon-dials of the flagstones.
One hawk. Second hawk. They were up there
earlier, as sand toads tacked from grass tuft to grass
tuft, up the pressed dune’s incline. Divots
under the pin oak.

Read more here.

Ken Babstock will be reading at Concordia Monday, November 25 at 11AM in the John Molson Building (MB 2.130).

Karen Solie interviews Ken Babstock in Brick 87.

“I think about points in world history when new materials became part of what was driving the engine of an art, like when architecture latched on to glass, or when pop art latched on to plastic, or whatever, and they all had culturally different moods and strategies behind them, like high modernism had that kind of drive to utopian madness behind it. I don’t feel like I’m partaking in the same thing, but I was consciously aware that material was everywhere, that it is everything, there is nothing excluded by virtue of what it is” (Babstock on Methodist Hatchet).

Read the full interview here.

Writers Read at Concordia and the CURC in Contemporary Literature and Media are proud to present much loved Canadian poet Ken Babstock to read at Concordia Monday, November 25th at 11AM in “The Floating Box” (MB 2.130), John Molson Building, 1450 Guy St. Can’t wait!