It is with great regret that we must advise that the September 8th livewords show must be cancelled.

Edward Nixon is in B.C. attending to his very ill mother and the livewords secret agents despite best efforts are not able to proceed with event. Apologies to our featured readers Joe Denham and Jeff Latosik to all of you who were planning to attend and who have supported livewords.

Out of respect to our intended readers their bios are listed below:

Joe Denham

Denham’s first collection of poetry, Flux, was published in 2003. In 2009, Windstorm (Nightwood Editions), the first in a triptych of book-length poems was published, followed shortly after by his first novel, The Year of Broken Glass, in 2011. His poetry and prose has appeared in various literary magazines and anthologies including: Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets; The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry; Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets; Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets; Books in Canada; The Literary Review of Canada; Maisonneuve;The Malahat Review; BC Studies; and Grain. Denham grew up on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, and has lived in Vancouver, Victoria and Toronto. He currently lives with his wife and 2 children in Halfmoon Bay, BC, where he writes, edits, builds timber frame homes, and continues to captain fishing vessels.

Jeff Latosik

Latosik’s award-winning poems have appeared in magazines and journals across the country. He won the P.K. Page Founders’ Award from The Malahat Review in 2007, placed first in THIS Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt in 2008, and was a finalist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for 2008. He teaches at Humber College in Toronto. His first book, Tiny, Frantic, Stronger (Insomniac Press 2010) won the 2011 Trillium Book Award for Poetry.