EP 21 :: Erin Mouré, On Edge

eMigrations Podcast 21 features a reading by poet Erin Moure. This is another reading from the On Edge Reading Series vault.

Erín Mouré is a poet and translator based in Montreal. Her 11th collection of poetry, O Cidadan (Anansi, 2002) is a troubled yet hopeful consideration on what "citizen" could mean in our era; it was a finalist for the Governor General's Award. Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person (Anansi, 2001, as Eirin Moure), her transelation from the Portuguese of Alberto Caiero/Fernando Pessoa's O Guardador de Rebanhos, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the City of Toronto Book Award. A Frame of the Book, aka The Frame of a Book (Anansi, Toronto; Sun & Moon Press, LA) and Pillage Laud (Moveable Type Books, Toronto) both appeared in 1999; Search Procedures in 1996 (finalist for the Governor General's Award). Her 1988 Furious (Anansi) was awarded the Governor General's Award for poetry, and WSW (Vehicle Press, Montreal, 1989) received a QSPELL poetry prize. Moure's recent book of poetry, Little Theatres, won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and was also nominated for the 2005 Governor General's Award for English-language poetry. She has given talks and readings across Canada as well as in the USA, France, Spain, England and Japan.

This reading took place on Feb 15, 2007, at the Emily Carr Institute for Art + Design, as part of a Canada Council Sponsored Literary Reading series, On Edge, which is co-sponsored by ECI.