Salt Spring Island Public Library

iPad, Tablet, eReader and basic Mac tutoring with Conrad Koke.
Sign-up sheets are found in the Info Desk Programs binder.
Sessions are available every Monday.

Launching Brilliant New Poetry by Patrick Friesen and Eve Joseph

Patrick is launching Songen, published by Mother Tongue Publishing. Patrick was short-listed for the Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize (a co-translation with Per Brask of Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments by Danish poet Ulrikka Gernes) in 2016, and the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry in 2016.  His play A Short History of Crazy Bone will be staged by Theatre Projects Manitoba in 2018.

Eve Joseph is launching Quarrels. Eve’s two books of poetry, The Startled Heart (Oolichan, 2004) and The Secret Signature of Things (Brick, 2010) were both nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award. Her nonfiction book, In the Slender Margin was published by HarperCollins in 2014, won the Hubert Evans award for nonfiction, and named one of the top 100 picks of the year by the Globe and Mail.

Bring your friends, your snacks, and your twenty-sided dice to the library for games night every Friday night.  Facilitator Bryan Dubien shares his vast collection of board games, or you can bring your own.  Everyone welcome.

Anthony (Tony) Bruce launches his latest book, To Seek the Wind of Sorrow. His past novels include, The Consequence of Memory, and his adventure, political, espionage thrillers, The East Wind, To Taunt a Wounded Tiger, A Lie to Comfort the Dying and The Gatekeeper of Lies.

iPad, Tablet, eReader and basic Mac tutoring with Conrad Koke.
Sign-up sheets are found in the Info Desk Programs binder.
Sessions are available every Monday.