Randall Maggs, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems
November 24, 7:30 pm
Special Collections Reading Room
5th floor, Killam Library

Interdisciplinarity at its best! The English Dept. and the Dalhousie Libraries are co-sponsoring this special evening with Randall Maggs, bringing together poetry and hockey for a unique campus experience. All are welcome to attend.

Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (Brick Books, 2008) is a series of compact poems that build into a long narrative. A gripping hockey saga that wraps the game’s story in the intense and contradictory character of Terry Sawchuk, one of the greatest goalies of all time, Night Work “seems poised to become a Canadian classic” (Dave Bidini, Globe and Mail). A short film has also been produced by Bookshorts entitled Night Work: A Sawchuk Poem, shot entirely on location in Beachy Cove Nfld. and featuring Des Walsh and Phil Churchill.

Randall Maggs is the author of Timely Departures (Breakwater, 1994), and co-editor of two anthologies pairing Newfoundland and Canadian poems with those of Ireland. He is artistic director of Newfoundland’s March Hare festival of music and literature, and teaches literature at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University. Randall has played a lot of hockey himself, but the Maggs who made it to the NHL was his brother Darryl.

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