Saturday, March 29, 2014
1:30pm: "The Line has Shattered" — Film Screening & Panel
Mercury Lounge, 55 Byward Market Square
Fifty years ago, American poets Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov came to Vancouver for a poetry conference that was radical for its time and remains inspiring to this day. The Line has Shattered examines how a rising generation was inspired to embrace new, open forms of poetry, and the field of poetry itself as a meaningful experience for a lifetime's work.
Following the film, there will be a panel discussion lead by Robert McTavish, with guests Roy McSkimming, Robert Hogg and William Hawkins.
Robert McTavish’s documentary films include What to make of it all? The life and poetry of John Newlove and The Line has Shattered: Vancouver’s Landmark 1963 Poetry Conference. He is the editor of A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove (Chaudière Books, Ottawa, 2007) and his radio work includes the documentary Phyllis Webb: The Art of Ideas for CBC Radio’s IDEAS.
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