“Join us for an evening with Bruce Hunter and Lorne Daniel as they present their works, In the Bear’s House and What is Broken Binds Us.
When: Tuesday, October 21 | 6:30pm
Where: Friends Program Room
In the Bear’s House by Bruce Hunter is a novel that tells the story of a creative young mother raising her deaf son against the insurmountable odds of poverty, mental illness, and hardship in Calgary and Alberta’s backcountry in the 1960s.
What is Broken Binds Us by Lorne Daniel is a collection of poems about the disruptions and emotional tremors that shape us: families broken and dispersed, the ancestry of slavery and conquest, addiction and estrangement, and the shocks of bodily trauma. The book shares stories of loss, absence, acceptance, and hope.
Bruce Hunter was born in Calgary on Treaty Seven lands. He was deafened as an infant and afflicted with low vision much of his adult life. After high school, Bruce worked as a labourer, equipment operator, Zamboni driver, and completed his technical education as a gardener and arborist. In his late twenties, his poetry earned him a scholarship to the Banff School of Fine Arts where he studied with novelist W.O. Mitchell and poet Irving Layton. Bruce went on to York University to study humanities and taught in the creative writing department before landing a position at Seneca College. He is an active writer, editor, speaker, and mentor. For more information about Bruce and his work, please visit: https://www.brucehunter.ca/.
Lorne Daniel is a Canadian of Scottish and American ancestry. His poetry and non-fiction have been widely published in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K. Lorne has been deeply engaged in the literary community since helping lead the emergence of a Canadian prairie poetry scene in the 1970s. He has written four books of poetry, edited anthologies and literary journals, and published freelance journalism. A veteran writer and editor, in recent years Lorne has chosen to “begin again as a novice,” through writing programs at a number of universities in the U.S. and Canada. For more information about Lorne and his work, please visit: https://www.lornedaniel.ca/.
Café Books will be joining us for Bruce and Lorne's visit and will have copies of In the Bear's House and What Is Broken Binds Us available for purchase.
This event is offered with funding support from the Canada Council for the Arts through The Writers' Union of Canada.”
Hosted by the Canmore Public Library.
