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Episode 6: Madeline Bassnett & Kevin Shaw

10/26/2016

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Friday, October 28th, 7:30pm – 8:30pm @ 211 King Street (2nd floor), London

Madeline Bassnett is the author of two chapbooks: Elegies (Frog Hollow, 2011) and Pilgrimage (Baseline, 2016). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Grain, The New Quarterly, Riddle Fence, The Fiddlehead, and The Malahat Review. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Western University.

“Bassnett’s most significant accomplishment in this collection is her technical mastery of the interplay between syntax, line, and stanza. …[H]er sentences both weave across line breaks and stretch over stanza breaks to create complex patterns of tension and resolution. …[I]t’s like watching a close tennis match, though one with perhaps more at stake. …Elegies is characterized by a technical virtuosity that allows the poems to carry the reverberations of loss that echo through a person’s quotidian existence. They alert us to the unexpected resonances that crop up in the wake of a loved one’s passing.” —Sue Sinclair, The Fiddlehead
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Bassnett was the featured reader at the London Open Mic Poetry Night on October 7th, 2015. Visit the London Open Mic Poetry website to read an interview with Bassnett and three of her poems from Elegies. (Credit for Bassnett’s author photo, below, goes to Debra Franke.)


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Kevin Shaw is from London, ON. His poems and nonfiction have recently appeared, or are forthcoming, in Contemporary Verse 2, Grain, The Fiddlehead, and The New Quarterly. His essays have been nominated for the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize (twice) and the Event Nonfiction Contest. He won Arc Poetry Magazine‘s 2015 Poem of the Year award and the 2016 PRISM InternationalPoetry Contest. He’s currently a PhD candidate in English at Western University, where he researches censorship law and queer poetics in English-Canadian writing.

Shaw’s PRISM Poetry Contest-winning “The Flood of ’37” (pictured above) appears in PRISM 54:4.
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