A Poetry Reading at the Elizabeth Bishop Festival

One of the many exciting events that will take place at the Elizabeth Bishop Festival on 8 August 2015 will be a morning poetry reading with Joanne Light, Chad Norman, Andrew Patterson and Libby Schofield. We will be profiling each of these artists in the next weeks. This post is a profile of Chad Norman.

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Chad Norman resides in Truro, N.S. His poems have appeared in literary publications around the world. His collection, Masstown, which celebrates the once-thriving family-owned dairy farm industry of that area, came out in 2013 from Black Moss Press (http://blackmosspress.com/chad-norman/). A new collection, Book of Awe, poems which capture the state of awe through a return to gardening, is due out Fall 2015, again from Black Moss Press.

Chad has published fifteen books of poetry in a career that spans twenty-five years. He has won the B.C. Writers’ Poetry Contest, as well as the Gwendolyn MacEwen Memorial Award.

Two additional links:

An interview with Chad Norman by Nova Scotia writer Sandra Phinney

 

Julia MacMillan's article "Chad Norman's poetry recalls Maritime history" in Mount Allison University's student newspaper The Argosy.