Wally Keeler was born and raised in Cobourg.  He describes his occupation as Poetentate, and his location as People’s Republic of Poetry. His work has been published in a number of literary journals, including Prism, the Fiddlehead, Descant, and others. His poetry collection Walking on the Greenhouse Roof was published by Delta Canada, to excellent reviews. His most recent book is Cobourg Is My Poem Town (2013). Wally’s primary interest is poetry and he has spent his life promoting it.

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Sharon Ramsay Curtis has a varied and multi-faceted creative life. She has been a poet, a teacher, a potter, a painter in water-colours, a maker of drawings, collector of words and a raconteur.  Recently she has turned her attention to creating children’s stories. Her first book, Edward Covered is now in print and she is writing her second story.

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Malcolm Telford has had a long and distinguished career as a researcher and professor of zoology at the University of Toronto. Now in his retirement, he has published a non-academic book about people who have been important to him, his life and scientific topics that interest him, called Flying Sand Dollars, Left Handed Crabs. Giant Earwigs and Other Curiosities

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John B Lee has published over 55 books of poetry and has won over 100 Canadian and international awards for his work. He wrote his first poem at the age of nine for his father and published his first prize-winning volume of poetry at twenty-one.

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Kathryn MacDonald is a poet and travel writer  who has adventured across the Americas, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa. Her love of exploring places and experiencing different cultures has led to her newest collections of travel poems, for which the working title is Bluu/Azul/Blue; Part 1 “Cure for Love: Flight”; Part II “In Love with the Wind”. She is the author of  A Breeze You Whisper (Hidden Brook Press, 2011) and her poems have been published in literary journals such a Descant and Fiddlehead. Her novella, Calla and Edourd was published in 2009.

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Ingrid Ruthig has won many awards for her poetry. She discusses her most recent book, THIS BEING which has just become a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award through the Canadian League of Poets.

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Jonathan Bennett is a novelist and poet. He is the author of six books, the most recent of which is The Colonial Hotel (ECW Press, 2014). His previous work includes the critically acclaimed novels, Entitlement and After Battersea Park, two collections of poetry, Civil and Civic, and Here is my street, this tree I planted, and a collection of short stories set in Australia, Verandah People, which was runner up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. He is a winner of the K.M. Hunter Artists’ Award in Literature.

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April is Poetry Month and to mark it local poets read from their work or choose a favourite poem to read for us.

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Ruth E Walker is a novelist, poet, playwright, editor and writing workshop facilitator. Her work has been published internationally and in many Canadian journals including Prairie Fire and The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology. She has won numerous poetry awards, was a semi-finalist in the Chapters/Robertson Davies First Novel competition and has been nominated for a National Magazine Award. Her novel Living Underground was published by Seraphim Editions in 2012

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Celebrating World Story Telling Day, March 20th, with Angelica Ottewill and Betty Bennett, who perform all over Ontario. Their combination of stories and music is enchanting.

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