Elizabeth Bachinsky: January 2011

Monday, January 3, 2011

UFV Writer-in-Residence, Spring, 2011

I'm pleased to announce that I'm going home...to the Fraser Valley! I am the Writer in Residence for the University of the Fraser Valley January -April 2011. While at UFV, I'll be working with one-on-one with emerging writers, hosting and reading in author events, and visiting classrooms—as well as working on some new writing. My office hours are all day Thursdays and by appointment on Fridays. Please contact me at Elizabeth.Bachinsky@ufv.ca for more information. Hope to see you out in the Valley.

Some Readings Coming Up, Spring 2011

In Vancouver:

Locution

January 13, 7pm

Pulpfiction Books

2422 Main Street

Featuring Elizabeth Bachinsky,

Chris Urquhart, Tariq Hussein,

Clare Middleton and Meredith Hambrock

On Edge Reading Series

January 20, 7 pm

Emily Carr University

South Building, room 406

Vancouver

Featuring Elizabeth Bachinsky in conversation with Jacqueline Turner

In Kingston:

Thrive Reading Series

Tuesday February 8th, 8 p.m

the Grad Club, 162 Barrie St. at Union

Dept. of English, Queen's University

Wednesday Feb. 9th, 11.30-1

Watson Hall, Room 517

Bader Lane, Queen's Campus.

In Montreal:

Atwater Poetry Project

Thursday, February 10, 7 pm
Atwater Library

1200 Atwater Ave

Montreal

Featuring Elizabeth Bachinsky and George Sipos

Stay tuned for upcoming readings in Abbotsford, BC, Spring 2011.

What They say

“Bachinsky's work, with its myriad of influences ranging from Eliot...to Lisa Robertson, is able to rise above the boring drone of the avant-garde-versus-traditional debates. Her work can straddle both sides: formal and experimental, personal and mathematical, with a keen ear for the erotically ridiculous.”

~ Zoe Whittall, Globe and Mail

“Bachinsky has won deserved admiration for her work, full of guts and verve, spunk and nerve.…straight-shooting, straight-talking…Bachinsky’s third poetry collection [has] that same rough beauty, sinuous toughness, of make-do carpentry that works.”

~ George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Chronicle/Herald

“God of Missed Connections is a formidable work from this young poet: a considered and important contribution to the quintessential dialogue on Canada’s fractured collective history.”

~ Deanne Beattie, Vancouver Review

“…enviably good.”

~ Mark Callanan, Quill & Quire

“…one of those rare poets capable of negotiating poetic forms with rigour and testing their limits, while never losing sight of the strange, dark music of what it means to be human.”

~ Jeanette Lynes, The Globe and Mail

“a poet…with an ear to the ground of 21st century culture. [Her work] grips you with yearning from the first verse to the last…"

~ Belinda Bruce, Vancouver Review

“[Bachinsky] doesn’t let any sign pass without spinning out possible signifiers. And she sees the signs everywhere."

~ Jacqueline Turner, The Georgia Straight

“A wonderful, wonderful poet.”

~ Keith Maillard, author of Gloria & Two Strand River

“One of the significant, exciting new poets to follow…one whose fine sense of form is equaled by a dedication to using the full spectrum of tone, style, and content.”

~ Todd Swift, Eyewear

“A major influence…”

~ John K. Samson, The Weakerthans

“A…poet concerned with tradition, but possessing an experimental impulse that gives her work a countercultural thrust.”

~ Stuart Cole, Quill and Quire

“An accomplished poet who thinks and feels in the forms she employs.”-

~ Malcolm Woodland, University of Toronto Quarterly.

“She says what she wants to say confidently and skillfully. I respect this kind of honesty…”

~ Alex Boyd, The Good Reports

“Bachinsky’s willingness to range fearlessly through history sets her writing apart...[she] should be lauded for raising big questions. We should also applaud her sheer moxie.”

~ Jeanette Lynes, The Fieldstone Review, University of Saskatchewan

Elizabeth Bachinsky

Monday, January 3, 2011

UFV Writer-in-Residence, Spring, 2011

Some Readings Coming Up, Spring 2011

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