Twisted Poets Literary Salon
The Sept 13th Twisted Poets is Presented in collaboration with Word Vancouver 
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Wednesday September 13, 2023
2nd Wednesday of every second month (Nov 8, Jan 10, Mar 13, May 8) Pandora's Collective Presents TWISTED POETS LITERARY SALON Featured Poets
Hosted by: Daniela Elza & Natasha Boskic Time: 6:00 - 7:50 pm Location: Britannia Library 1661 Napier St, Vancouver Adrienne Fitzpatrick grew up in the north and returned to complete her Masters in English at the University of Northern British Columbia; her creative thesis won the John Harris Prize for the best in Northern Fiction. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Prairie Fire, CV2, subTerrain, The New Quarterly and Thimbleberry. Her art reviews have appeared in Border Crossings, C Magazine and Canadian Art and book reviews in the BC Review. She explores the phenomenological experience of place in her work and her first book, The Earth Remembers Everything is based on her experiences travelling to massacre sites in Europe, Asia, the Central Interior and Northwest Coast of BC; it was also short-listed for the 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. Instructions for a Flood, based on her experiences of living and working with Indigenous Nations in the Central Interior and Northwest of BC, is coming out from Caitlin Press in Spring 2023. 
Born in Vancouver, Ian Thomas has a lifelong passion for the ecosystems and wildlife of the coastal rainforest. A biologist by training, Ian received his master’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Windsor in Ontario. He currently works for the Ancient Forest Alliance, a non-profit that works to protect BC’s endangered old-growth forests. GREEN ISLANDS is Ian’s first published book. He has self-published two books of poetry: Twa Corbies: a Celebration of Crows and Ravens through Poetry and Photographs and Wild Cultures: Nature Poetry and Photographs from Coastal British Columbia.
Robin Susanto was born in Indonesia. After many departures and arrivals he found his way to this Coast Salish territory, where he continues to immigrate homeward. His work has appeared in the NewQuarterly, CV2, and the Blueprint Review and others. He has also won prizes and mentions including the William Henry Drummond contest (2017, 2019) and the Ross & Davis Mitchell Canada 150 Contest for Faith and Writing (2017). His translation of an Indonesian novel “Salah Asuhan” was published by the Lontar Foundation of the University of Hawaii under the English title “Never the Twain”. He has faith in unproductivity, creative disobedience, and the healing power of naivete.
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