Meredith Quartermain, a must-hear poet within Vancouver's literary circuit, will be travelling to Toronto to launch her follow-up to the award-winning Vancouver Walking as part of the infamous Art Bar Poetry Series at Clinton's (693 Bloor Street West) on Tuesday, October 7 at 8 pm. Entry is free.

Get the full poetic experience and listen to award-winning poet Meredith Quartermain read from her latest release, Nightmarker, a prolific collection that explores the human city as an animal behaviour, a museum, and a dream of modernity.

Reading alongside Meredith Quartermain will be:

Randall Maggs
Randall Maggs lives on the west coast of Newfoundland. He is the author of two books of poetry: Timely Departures (Breakwater Books) and Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick Books). He is an editor of The Echoing Years, a collection of Irish and Canadian poetry. Currently he is the Artistic Director of Newfoundland's March Hare Festival of Words and Music.

Diane Tucker
Diane Tucker was born and raised in Vancouver BC where she got a BFA from UBC. Her first book, God on His Haunches (Nightwood Editions) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. Her second book of poetry, Bright Scarves of Hours (Palimpsest Press) was published in 2007. She lives in Burnaby BC.

Click here to find out more about the Art Bar Poetry Series. 

In the meantime, click here to sample pieces from Nightmarker, read by Meredith Quartermain.