On March 15, 2020, the Dead Poets Reading Series was cancelled due to the recent Covid-19 outbreak, in order to protect the safety and well-being of our readers, series organizers, and audience members. But -- that doesn't mean the poetry can't continue. The video poem, where each poet is asked to share a video of themselves reading, was started by rob mclennan. To keep the sense of community running, and to show our appreciation for audiences like you, we have decided to bring the Dead Poets Reading Series online. Each poet is invited to honour the works of one dead poet of their choice.

Here, we have Montreal poet, Erín Mouré, bringing us the works of John Newlove (1938-2003).

1. Black Night Window
2. The Hitchhiker
3. The Boyish Voices
4. When I Heard of the Friend’s Death
5. There Are No Innocent People in Vancouver (for Fred Douglas)

Erín Moure’s latest poetry is The Elements (Anansi 2019), “a book of Dad.” The Face of the Quartzes is her sixth translation from the work of Galician poet Chus Pato. In spring 2020, she published two new translations: a sequence from Juan Gelman’s Argentinian “translations” of the English poet John Wendell, Sleepless Nights Under Capitalism (Eulalia Books) and, from the rich mountain Galician of Uxío Novoneyra, The Uplands, Book of the Courel and other poems (Veliz Books). Appearing in fall 2020: a translation of Quebec poet Chantal Neveu’s This Radiant Life (Book*hug), and Toots fait la Shiva, avenue Minto (Le Noroît, tr. Colette St-Hilaire), the French version of her memoir Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots (New Star 2017). A 40-year retrospective of her poetry, Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure, appeared in 2017 from Wesleyan.

* In a commitment to make our videos as accessible as possible to a wide community of audiences, we have provided the links to the material copies of the poems so that everybody can read and follow along with the visual cues! You can find photos of each poem here:
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