Mark Jarman featured at odd Sunday’s at Molly’s March 4

Sunday, March 4, 2007, 2 pm
Molly’s Coffee House
554 Queen Street, Fredericton

Mark Anthony Jarman was born in Edmonton and now teaches creative writing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Fellow at Yaddo artists’ colony in New York, Jarman’s work has appeared in virtually every Canadian literary journal worth mentioning. His books include two short story collections, (Alberta Writers’ Guild Award for Best Fiction), and a collection of poetry. Jarman also edited a book of alcohol related stories. His novels include Salvage King Ya! (1997), New Orleans is Sinking (1998), 19 Knives (2000), and Ireland’s Eye (2002).

“Jarman seems aware of every last word in the dictionary, knowing when to use them, abuse them, how to mix oily and watery words, push them side-by-side, make them cuddle or fight. . . . [Ireland's Eye] is so many things, but never strains to be any of them. Funny . . . and touching . . . and grim and self-aware and restrained when need be. . . . It is a shame more history can't be this entertaining.”—BOOKS IN CANADA

“With prose as elegant as it is tough and sinewy, as elegiac as it is no-nonsense, as moving as it is funny, Jarman explores the contemporary Ireland most travel features prefer to ignore. . . . a joyride along bumpy Irish roads that is at times rollicking, at times sad - but always revealing, always intelligent and often luminous. —OTTAWA CITIZEN

Open Set: Bring lyrics, fiction, drama, or music, to present in the open set. If it is created from words, we want it.

Please join us at 2 pm on Sunday, March 4, 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.)