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Steve McOrmond

2:53 min

Steve McOrmond reads "The Hypochondriac Flies to Mexico," and "The End of the World" from The Good News about Armageddon, published in 2010 by Brick Books.

Steve McOrmond's most recent book of poetry is The Good News about Armageddon (Brick Books, 2010). His previous collection Primer on the Hereafter (Wolsak and Wynn, 2006) was awarded the 2007 Atlantic Poetry Prize. Originally from Prince Edward Island, McOrmond now lives in Toronto.

More from Steve McOrmond

Interview with Steve McOrmond (excerpt) (published in CV2, Fall 2007)
The Poet (published in CV2, Fall 2007)



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Steve McOrmond

McOrmond 2:53 min

Steve McOrmond reads "The Hypochondriac Flies to Mexico," and "The End of the World" from The Good News about Armageddon, published in 2010 by Brick Books.





Maureen Hynes

Hynes 2:58 min

Maureen Hynes reads "Glass Kiss" from her book Rough Skin, published in 1995 by Wolsak and Wynn, and "Precaution," from Harm's Way, published in 2001 by Brick Books.





Kate Cayley

Cayley 2:18 min

Kate Cayley reads "William James Arrives in Toronto" and "Photograph of the Painter in His Studio 1907."





Jim Nason

Nason 3:31 min

Jim Nason reads "Black Ice" from his new book, Narcissus Unfolding, forthcoming from Frontenac House in March 2011 and "What I Didn't Tell the Insurance Agent" from The Fist of Remembering, published in 2006 by Wolsak and Wynn.