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Slocan Library hosting author readings

The library’s Sunday afternoon soirees are a popular and comfortable event.
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On Sunday, Oct. 29 at 1 p.m., the Slocan Community Library will host two writers, Barbara Curry Mulcahy of Slocan and Emily Nilsen of Nelson.

The library’s Sunday afternoon soirees are a popular and comfortable event, and this is your chance to experience authors reading there this fall.

You may know Barbara Curry Mulcahy for her columns in the Valley Voice, her book, The Man with the Dancing Monkey (1998), her poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction, or prize-winning radio play. On this occasion, she will introduce a broadside being published by The North Press in Port Townsend, Washington. It is an excerpt from a longer poem called Dragoman, set in Israel where she lived from the age of 11 to 15. She, her sister and her mother were evacuated in 1967 before the Six Day War.

The poem is part of a series about the period of skirmishes and battles after the Six Day War. Barbara will focus on this period of her life in her talk and read from a novel in progress.

This spring, Emily Nilsen launched her debut poetry collection, OTOLITH, published by Goose Lane Editions. It was featured as a 2017 CBC Spring Preview pick, giving it the distinction of being one of the most exciting books hitting the shelves in the first half of the year from Canada and beyond.

It is described as at once spare and lush. In her writing “Nilsen turns over each idea carefully, letting nothing escape her attention and saying no more than must be said.”

In 2015, she was selected from over 1,700 entrants from across the country for her poem Meanwhile which was shortlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize.

Please consider an outing to the Slocan Community Library, 710 Harold Street, on Oct. 29. The friendly volunteers will be there to greet you with cookies. There will be books to browse and purchase if you wish. This is a free event.