Elizabeth Bachinsky: March 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Wrap party at UFV, April 7

It's hard to believe my residency is almost over at the University of the Fraser Valley, but I'll be saying goodbye next week by reading some of my new work and sharing the stage with a handful of the talented young writers I've been working with at the University. Please come and join us for this final reading in this year's UFV Writer in Residence Reading Series.

Featuring:

Elizabeth Bachinsky

Thursday April 7, 7pm

Indo Canadian Centre

Room F125

University of the Fraser Valley

Abbotsford

Free to the Public

With Special Guests:

Jenny Ahuja

Sophie Isbister

Katie Stobbart

Joel Enns

Miriam Huxley

Jennifer Delamore

Gregory Eliason

after party at the Phoenix Pub.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Bachinsky * Bociurkiw * Grekul * Kostash * Ledohowski * Luciuk * Magocsi * Motyl * Salamon, April 29, University of Toronto

Come celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto and the 120th anniversary of Ukrainian settlement in Canada.

Friday, 29 April 2011, 9:30 am to 4:30 pm

Faculty Club (41 Willcocks Street)

University of Toronto

All lectures are free and open to the public.

9:30am Welcoming Remarks: Paul Robert Magosci

Session 1, 10:00am-12:00pm

Opening Remarks: Lubomyr Luciuk

Chair: Lisa Grekul

Speakers: Lindy Ledohowski, “Poet Pedagogues”

Myrna Kostash, “The Gulag, the Crypt, and the Gallows”

Daria Salamon, “Putting the Babas Back in the Book”

12noon-2:00pm Lunch Break

Session 2, 12:00pm-4:00pm

Chair: Lisa Grekul

Speakers: Marusya Bociurkiw, “They Call me Diaspora”

Elizabeth Bachinsky, “Membership

to The Ukrainian Co-op Denied?”

Alexander J. Motyl, “Concluding Reflections”

Linocut by Michelle Winegar

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

4th Annual Mission Readers and Writers Festival Saturday, March 12

I'm giving the keynote address at the Mission Readers and Writers Festival this Saturday. Looks like a lot of fun. Come out! Be great to see you. You can find out all the info here.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Reading in Gibsons, BC, April 22

If you're on the Sunshine Coast, I'll be reading at the Gibson's Live Poets Series on April 22, 7pm at Wheatberries. Looking forward to it.

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What They say

“Bachinsky's work, with its myriad of influences ranging from Eliot...to Lisa Robertson, is able to rise above the boring drone of the avant-garde-versus-traditional debates. Her work can straddle both sides: formal and experimental, personal and mathematical, with a keen ear for the erotically ridiculous.”

~ Zoe Whittall, Globe and Mail

“Bachinsky has won deserved admiration for her work, full of guts and verve, spunk and nerve.…straight-shooting, straight-talking…Bachinsky’s third poetry collection [has] that same rough beauty, sinuous toughness, of make-do carpentry that works.”

~ George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Chronicle/Herald

“God of Missed Connections is a formidable work from this young poet: a considered and important contribution to the quintessential dialogue on Canada’s fractured collective history.”

~ Deanne Beattie, Vancouver Review

“…enviably good.”

~ Mark Callanan, Quill & Quire

“…one of those rare poets capable of negotiating poetic forms with rigour and testing their limits, while never losing sight of the strange, dark music of what it means to be human.”

~ Jeanette Lynes, The Globe and Mail

“a poet…with an ear to the ground of 21st century culture. [Her work] grips you with yearning from the first verse to the last…"

~ Belinda Bruce, Vancouver Review

“[Bachinsky] doesn’t let any sign pass without spinning out possible signifiers. And she sees the signs everywhere."

~ Jacqueline Turner, The Georgia Straight

“A wonderful, wonderful poet.”

~ Keith Maillard, author of Gloria & Two Strand River

“One of the significant, exciting new poets to follow…one whose fine sense of form is equaled by a dedication to using the full spectrum of tone, style, and content.”

~ Todd Swift, Eyewear

“A major influence…”

~ John K. Samson, The Weakerthans

“A…poet concerned with tradition, but possessing an experimental impulse that gives her work a countercultural thrust.”

~ Stuart Cole, Quill and Quire

“An accomplished poet who thinks and feels in the forms she employs.”-

~ Malcolm Woodland, University of Toronto Quarterly.

“She says what she wants to say confidently and skillfully. I respect this kind of honesty…”

~ Alex Boyd, The Good Reports

“Bachinsky’s willingness to range fearlessly through history sets her writing apart...[she] should be lauded for raising big questions. We should also applaud her sheer moxie.”

~ Jeanette Lynes, The Fieldstone Review, University of Saskatchewan

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