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Carmelo Militano with George Amabile -- Book Launch

Wednesday Sep 07 2016 7:30 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Travel Alcove
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Launch of Militano's The Stone Mason's Notebook (Ekstasis Editions) featuring special guest reader George Amabile.

The Stone Mason’s Notebook is both a continuation and an expansion of Militano’s poetic awareness and voice. It is a restless voice that seeks to reveal, celebrate, and capture a complex consciousness rooted in personal history, Winnipeg, Calabria, classical myth and the flux and power of art, ‘its inarticulate purity.’ He is a poet who finds points on the spirit’s compass whether it be the erotic, loss, irreverence, or the quotidian; it is all here.

Carmelo Militano is a Winnipeg poet and novelist. He was born in the village of Cosoleto, Province Reggio di Calabria and immigrated to Canada with his parents at an early age. He is the winner of the 2004 F.G. Bressani award for poetry for Ariadne’s Thread. His novel Sebastiano’s Vine was short-listed for the Margaret Laurence fiction prize, 2014. Militano hosts a weekly poetry show – The P.I. New Poetry Show – where he interviews poets from across Canada.

George AmabileGuest reader George Amabile has published ten books and had work appear in over a hundred national and international venues. He has won awards in the CAA National Prize, the CBC Literary Competition, the Petra Kenney International Competition and the MAC national poetry contest, and the National Magazine Awards. His latest poetry collection, Martial Music (Signature Editions) was published in April 2016. Other recent publications include a long poem, Dancing, with Mirrors and Small Change, both of which won Bressani Awards. Amabile lives in Winnipeg.

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Martial Music

- George Amabile

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Martial Music, George Amabile?s eleventh book and newest collection of poetry, explores the relationships between civilization, technology, empire and human violence, theatres of war, the collateral damage of military occupation, the machinations of power politics, oil spills, destruction of the environment, ptsd, and other characteristics of what we call ?world events.? These are tough poems for tough times?our times?when the human cost of military conflict, environmental disaster and gun violence have become the daily staple of news headlines. Provocative, unflinching and at times raw with the poet?s fury at unfathomable acts, Amabile?s poems converge as an urgent libretto against the militaristic tendencies that surround us, inciting a march toward the creation of a more peaceful and sincere world.