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Mark Tredinnick Reading (Montreal Prize/Poetry Matters)

Monday, February 24, 2020 16:00to18:00
Birks Building Senior Common Room, 3520 rue University, Montreal, QC, H3A 2A7, CA
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Date: 24 February, 2020, 4-6 PM

Location: Senior Common Room (Room 100), Birks Building, ۲ݮƵ University

Mark Tredinnick is the author of eighteen books, including A Gathered Distance, Almost Everything I Know, Bluewren Cantos, Fire Diary, The Blue Plateau, and The Little Red Writing Book. He is a celebrated Australian poet, essayist, and teacher of writing. “One of our great poets of place,” Judy Beveridge calls him. In 2020, Mark was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for services to literature and education. Other honours include the Cardiff Poetry Prize, the Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes, the ACU and Ron Pretty Poetry Prizes, two Premiers’ Literature Awards, and the Calibre Essay Prize. The Blue Plateau, his landscape memoir, was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Prize.

Mark’s reading of his work will be an occasion to mark the migration of to its new home in the Department of English at ۲ݮƵ University.

Questions on Poetry Matters?
miranda.hickman [at] mcgill.ca
eli.maclaren [at] mcgill.ca
michael.nicholson [at] mcgill.ca

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