Posted in News, tagged 2008 Alberta Literary Awards, Alberta Literary Awards, Bert Almon, Golden Pen Award, Myrna Kostash, Stephan G. Stephannson, Tim Bowling, WGA, Wilfred Eggleston Award, Writer's Guild of Alberta on June 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
June 7—A gala at the Royal Alberta Museum after the Writer’s Guild of Alberta’s day-long AGM and mini-conference celebrated some outstanding achievements by Alberta writers working across many genres, three of whom have been Olive Series feature poets.
Myrna Kostash received the Golden Pen Award for Lifetime Achievement; she read for The Olive in September, 2003.
Tim [...]
Posted in News, tagged Bert Almon, Waiting for the Gulf Stream, Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst, A Ghost in Waterloo Station, Stephan G. Stephansson Award, City of Edmonton Book Prize, Annual Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts, Writer's Guild of Alberta, Alberta Literary Awards, Hesitation before Birth, The Shot Tower, Overexposure, Brindle & Glass on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hesitated. For weeks.
Then I was ready, it seemed,
in the middle of a hurricane,
and my mother made her trip to St. Mary’s
in a motor launch.
—Bert Almon, from “Hesitation before Birth”
A Ghost in Waterloo Station
(Brindle & Glass, 2007)
Bert takes his time. He plays the waiting game with his poems, just as he did with his mother [...]
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