Events & Workshops

 

The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild and Bushwakker Brewpub are pleased to present Poetry & A Pint, a celebration of poetry with Saskatchewan Poet Laureate dee Hobsbawn-Smith, Tara Dawn Solheim, Michael Trussler and Kathleen Wall. Our poets will share their work in a paired call-and-response format that will create unexpected depths of interaction between the poets and their writing.

 

Local food and drinks are available for purchase, including a special edition cheesecake crafted for our event. This event is free and open to the public.  Please note there is limited seating; first come, first served.

 

Bushwakker is an accessible venue; the wheelchair-accessible door is at the back of the building. Street parking available.

 

 

Our Poets:

 

dee Hobsbawn-Smith (she/her) is the 10^th Saskatchewan Poet Laureate. She lives rurally on Treaty Six Territory west of Saskatoon, where she runs, gardens, quilts, and grows orchids. She writes award-winning poetry, novels, short stories, and essays, which are sometimes influenced by her background as a chef and local food advocate. She’s served as a mentor, as an editor, and as the Saskatoon Public Library’s 35th Writer in Residence. She earned her MFA in Writing and MA in English at the University of Saskatchewan. Dee taught creative writing at St. Peter’s College in Muenster and has taught thousands of people how to cook. She’s written ten books, most recently Among the Untamed: poems, a shortlisted finalist in the SK Book Awards for Poetry Award, and the City of Saskatoon Award.

 

 

Tara Dawn Solheim is a writer and musician. Her original creations integrate poetry and melody in performance. She has performed in many contexts throughout Canada and spent five years in Tokyo, Japan where she performed extensively with several different musical collectives. Tara Dawn has developed through residencies at Wallace Stegner House and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Along with her work as an artist, Tara Dawn currently serves as Executive Director of Sage Hill Writing. Her newest artistic work focuses on somatic exploration, spinning music as a DJ, and the creation of poetry films.

 

 

 

Michael Trussler writes primarily poetry and creative non-fiction. His work has been anthologized both domestically and internationally. He has received Saskatchewan Book Awards for poetry, non-fiction and short stories. His memoir concerning mental illness, The Sunday Book, was published by Palimpsest Press in 2022. Radiant Press and Icehouse Press will be publishing the poetry collections Realia and 10:10 respectively in 2024. All of his work engages with the beauty and violence of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, though his most recent writing specifically explores what it means to be alive at the beginning of the Anthropocene.

 

 

Kathleen Wall taught English for 37 years, first at the University of Manitoba and then at the University of Regina, winning the university’s teaching award in 2001.  She has published one novel, Blue Duets, and three books of poetry, Visible Cities, Time’s Body, and Without Benefit of Words.  She is currently working on two poetry manuscripts.  Appointments with Memory is about memory in the 21^st century and in one’s seventies.  Nature’s Culture turns the lyric on its head by assuming nature has its own culture; three of these poems were longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2019.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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