Bio

Brian Bartlett (Halifax, NS) is author of eight books of poetry, including his latest entitled The Astonishing Room. His earlier collections of poetry include The Watchmaker’s Table, The Afterlife of Trees, and Granite Erratics. He has also published several books of nature writing and a gathering of his prose on poetry. His work has received The Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry, and two Malahat Review Long Poem Prizes. The many books edited by him include Alden Nowlan’s Collected Poems. After long periods living in New Brunswick and Montreal, Bartlett moved to Halifax/Kjipuktuk in 1990, and taught for three decades at Saint Mary’s University. He has kept a daily journal for many years.

Bio

Michael Pacey (Fredericton, NB) Michael Pacey has been a fixture of his hometown’s literary scene for more than fifty years, publishing his early poems in the Fiddlehead while still in high school, and his first collection with New Brunswick Chapbooks while a sophomore at UNB. He did his MFA in Creative Writing at UBC where he served as editor-in-chief of Prism International (1984-85). In recent years he’s produced three collections: The First Step and Electric Affinities (2011 and 2015, both from Signature Editions) and Wild Apples: a Dialogue with Thoreau (Pottersfield Press, 2022). More than 120 of Michael’s poems have appeared in leading Canadian literary magazines, and his poems have twice been recognized in the the Best Canadian Poems in English series.