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Cross-Pollinations: Eve Joseph and Dr. Jacqueline Hui
February 26, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM EST
Free
On Wednesday, February 26 at 6pm (EST)/3pm (PST), register for an hour of poetry and conversation around the theme of Palliative and End-of-Life Care. This event is curated jointly by the League of Canadian Poets, The Canadian Association for Health Humanities, and the Health Arts Research Centre.
This event will feature Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet and former hospice care counsellor Eve Joseph, who will be reading from her book In The Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying. We will also hear from Dr. Jacqueline Hui, who has worked in Palliative Care for over twenty years.
Eve Joseph
Eve Joseph lives and writes on the unceded traditional territories of the Lekwungen peoples. Her first two books of poetry The Startled Heart (Oolichan, 2004) and The Secret Signature of Things (Brick, 2010) were both nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award. Her nonfiction book In the Slender Margin was published by HarperCollins in 2014 and won the Hubert Evans award for nonfiction. Her most recent book of poetry Quarrels (Anvil, 2018) was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award, The ReLit Award and won the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize. Eve worked for 21 years as a community and crisis counsellor at the Victoria Hospice.
