Angela Hryniuk (Winnipeg Launch)
Wednesday Jul 09 2008 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park, in the Travel Alcove

Winnipeg launch of pearls and forbidden fruit, poetry. Former Winnipegger Angela Hryrniuk returns home with a poetry collection fifteen years in the making.

Passion. Lust. Unrequited love. The consumption of forbidden fruit. Desire, and its outlaws. pearls & forbidden fruit is the stuff of real life: the hubris and the underbelly, the delight and the bliss – the things that we transform into the gold of wisdom and meaning. Hryniuk reaches into the depths of humanness to reveal the naked body that resides beneath the naked body. Nora Patrich’s playfully serious erotic drawings which tastefully accompany Hryniuk’s poetry elevate this volume to an Object of Art, rather than a simple book.

Hryniuk will also be presenting her recent CD, Sitting in the Lights: Guided Meditations for Relaxation and Self-balancing.

Hryniuk is a poet and a practitioner and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism.

About the Author

Angela Hryniuk is a poet and a practitioner and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism. She has released two CDs: Melisma: Buddhist Pilgrimage in India, produced by Stephen Fearing and featuring Kiran Ahluwalia (Diamond Thought, 2003), and Sitting in the Light, a series of guided mediations, featuring musician Stephen Hamm (Diamond Thought, 2008). She has also published three books of poetry: walking inside circles (Ragweed Press/Gynergy, 1989), no visual scars (Polestar, 1993), and Sarasvati Scapes, with co-author, Penn Kemp (Pendas Productions, 2001). Her poetry, book reviews and articles have appeared in many Canadian literary journals. Angela was editor of JAG, (f)Lip and Island magazines, has served on the National Council of the Writers’ Union of Canada as the BC/Yukon representative and worked as the BC/Alberta representative for the Literary Press Group. In 2004, Angela coordinated His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Spiritual Teaching in Vancouver and in 2006, she co-coordinated the Spirituality Round Table at the United Nations-sponsored World Urban Forum. She divides her time between Vancouver and Brisbane, Australia.

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