| Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems in Toronto [message #2760] |
Tue, 06 April 2010 09:38 |
 kava
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Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems focuses on the life
and times of Terry Sawchuk, the great goaltender from
the old six team National Hockey League. Born into
Winnipeg's Ukrainian community, Sawchuk learned his
hockey on the outdoor rinks of East Kildonan. Although
these poems focus on Sawchuk and his complex personality,
they also convey the physical and psychological
hazards faced by professional goaltenders of the age.
Illustrated by photographs, the text presents many voices,
including Terry's own, in a work that guides readers
through the triumphs and failures of Sawchuk's tumultuous
twenty-year NHL career. "Through his marvelous,
moving poetry," Stephen Brunt of the Globe and Mail
suggests, "Randall Maggs gets closer than any biographer
to the heart of the darkest, most troubled figure in
the history of the national game. This may be the truest
hockey book ever written. It reaches a level untouched
by conventional sports literature…" Night Work: The
Sawchuk Poems is Randall Maggs' second poetry collection;
it won the 2008 Winterset Award and the 2009 E.J.
Pratt Poetry Award and was a Globe 100 top book of
2008. On March 4, Night Work won the $25,000 Kobzar
Literary Award.
Randall Maggs is the author of Timely Departures (poetry, 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 has
just retired from teaching literature at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University,
Newfoundland. Randall Maggs was a hockey player himself, though the Maggs who
made it to the NHL was his brother Darryl, to whom the book is dedicated. Night Work
was initially launched at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.
The Ukrainian National Federation Resource Center invites you to meet
Randall Maggs as he reads from his critically acclaimed book
Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems,
winner of the 2010 Kobzar Literary Award
Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Trident Banquet Hall, 145 Evans Avenue, Toronto
Admission is complimentary
Partial proceeds from the sale of books will support the UNF Resource Centre
The evening will include a presentation by special guest W. Sokolyk, author of
Their Sporting Legacy, Participation of Ukrainian Canadians in Sport, 1891-1991
Enjoy readings from Night Work and linger over coffee and sweets as the author signs copies of his book
For information please contact 416.769.7965
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