Videos - Toronto Coast to Coast Reading
In 2010, CV2 magazine hit the road for a coast to coast reading tour with stops in Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver and Winnipeg. The tour was in celebration of CV2's 35th Anniversary and featured local poets who have all been published in the magazine. There was a festive air to each reading with many great people in attendance. Below you can see a few clips from the Toronto performance at Clinton's Tavern, featuring Jim Nason, Maureen Hynes, Steve McOrmond and Kate Cayley.
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.
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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.
Maureen Hynes is a past winner of the Gerald Lampert Award and the Petra Kenney Poetry Award (London, England). Her poetry was shortlisted for the 2007 CBC Literary Awards and has been selected for Best Canadian Poetry 2010. She has published two books of poetry, Harm's Way (Brick Books) and Rough Skin (Wolsak and Wynn), and her third collection, Uncovered, is forthcoming from Pedlar Press. Maureen is poetry editor for Our Times magazine.
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Kate Cayley reads "William James Arrives in Toronto" and "Photograph of the Painter in His Studio 1907."
Kate Cayley's poetry has appeared twice previously in CV2, as well as in The Antigonish Review, existere, dANDelion, Room, and The Fiddlehead. She is the artistic director of Stranger Theatre, and her play, After Akhmatova, will be produced in spring 2011 as part of Tarragon Theatre's 40th anniversary season. Her first book, a young adult novel called Marrying the Hangman, will be published next year by Annick Press. She is working very slowly on a first collection of poems.
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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.
Jim Nason's essays, stories and poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies in the United States and Canada. He has published two books of poetry: If Lips Were as Red and The Fist of Remembering; a third collection, Narcissus Unfolding is forthcoming with Frontenac House books. A selection of poems from his new poetry manuscript Music Garden was a finalist for this year's CBC Literary Award. Jim has also published a novel, The Housekeeping Journals and a short story collection, The Girl on the Escalator (forthcoming, Tightrope Books).
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