Promoting Poetry - Tower Poetry Society

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Hamilton Poetry Centre

Hamilton Poetry Centre runs a monthly Workshop Series. All welcome – poets and poetry lovers! This is a great opportunity to receive thoughtful peer feedback on your poems in progress, or just enjoy joining in the discussion. We meet at the Westdale Library on the third Thursday of most months, (generally a December rest), from 5:00 to 6:45.

Please join us for our next in-person workshop on Thursday May 15th ( in the program room of the Westdale Library. The Westdale library now closes at 7 p.m., therefore the workshops are being held from 5 p.m. util 6:45 p.m. Poems are read in the order they are received.

We welcome those who have not attended the HPC before. Please bring a poem (no longer than one page). It is helpful to have copies to share with the group (12-15 suggested). The workshop leader will lead a friendly discussion of the poem and we ask that the writer refrain from commenting on his or her poem until the end of the discussion.

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Jennifer Tan and Elizabeth Tessier are among the poets living between Lake Ontario and the Grand River, and are featured

in Poetry of Place : Poetry and Environmental Hope in a Southern Ontario bioregion, a new anthology edited by Deborah Bowen
of Redeemer College. There are two launches upcoming:

Thursday, May 15, 2025 Waterloo Library, Eastside Branch, 2001 University Ave East , Waterloo 6:30-8:30pm

Saturday, May 24, 2025 The Gasworks, 141 Park St N, Hamilton 2:00-4:00 pm

The volume of poetry can can be purchased here:

https://guernicaeditions.com/products/poetry-in-place?srsltid=AfmBOoog8_gmj5b94T7FJIcLQZjkO4iwlpqGo2NIxDR6LUUEyNCpXfX9

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** New/returning TPS members Manfred Deitrich and John Ferns will be launching their collaborative volume, “Overtime”, for those of us contemplating our “best before” dates and all that goes with it. Please note: the venue is quite small, but crammed full of the most wonderful books.

Sunday May 25, 2025 The Printed Word, 16 McMurray St, unit 3, Dundas 2:00-4:00 pm