Past Events: 2021 July Emergence

Emergence Poetry


June 2021

Emergence

Poetry and Images of the Eastern Townships

On Friday July 2nd, The Knowlton Literary Association presented a webinar featuring six Eastern Townships poets, all of whom have their works published in Emergence, an anthology of twenty-four contemporary female poets from the Eastern Townships, published by Studio Georgeville.

 

Each poet gave a ten-minute reading against a stunning visual backdrop of scenes of the Eastern Townships, compliments of photographer, Louise Abbott.

 

The poets were: Rachel Garber (Maple Leaf), Heather Davis (Lennoxville), Elizabeth Paulette-Coughlin (Vale Perkins), Tanya McIntyre (Ogden), Gillian Eastley (Knowlton) and Phyllis Sise (Foster).


If you were unable to attend our webinar, or would like to enjoy listening to the poets reading their artistic prose, while taking in Louise Abbots beautiful photography, click on the following link:  https://youtu.be/XzMReVngYFE  .

Louise Abbott


The poet's pictures in the gallery above were taken by Louise Abbott. 


Abbott studied at the Banff Centre, the Recontres internationales de la photographie d'Arles, and the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. She also participated in workshops with Sam Tata and Gabor Szilasi in Montreal. She counts the latter two photographers as important early influences along with Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Mary Ellen Mark, W. Eugene Smith, and Paul Strand.


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