Lynn Davies featured poet at odd Sundays at molly’s April 1

Sunday, April 1, 2007, 2 pm
Molly’s Coffee House
554 Queen Street, Fredericton

Featured reader, Lynn Davies, has one husband, two teenagers, one cat, and poetic sensibilities vivid enough to get her work nominated for a Governor General’s Award. In The Bridge that Carries the Road (1999 Brick Books), [Davies’ poetry] “surrenders to the demands of a fully experienced life with a remarkable sureness of tone and clarity. She chronicles the hilarities, struggles and innocence of family, astonished with the fierce power of love. Throughout, the lonely beauty of the Maritimes is a vision of the most silent reaches of the self.”

Her second book, Where Sound Pools, was published by Goose Lane 2005. “With engaging alertness, Davies beautifully blends strength and understatement, observation and fancy, passion and play-fulness. Her poems acknowledge how breakable human beings are and how easy it is to get lost, but they encourage us, too, to “try empathy.” A celebration of the enriching power of the imagination, Where Sound Pools reaffirms Davies’ reputation as one of Canada’s most accomplished younger poets.”— http://www.gooselane.com. While her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, Davies has milked cows in Norway, made beds in Amsterdam, and picked grapes in Provence. A tutor of children in reading and writing, she now lives in McLeod Hill and works at Westminster Books in downtown Fredericton.

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Please join us at 2 pm on Sunday, April 1, at Molly’s Coffee House, for an afternoon engaged with literature. For information: acalvern@nbnet.nb.ca or 459-1436. (Just say yes to poetry.)