Wait Until Late Afternoon OR distilled, decanted & debauched
Launching a Collaborative Poem by David Bateman and Hiromi Goto
10.15.2009 – David Bateman and Hiromi Goto's collaborative poem is a nostalgic/anti-nostalgic creative autobiographical conversation. Tracing their relationship to their fathers, their lives, and to each other through the transfiguring effects of alcohol, the narrative travels from glamorous nightclubs and the Jade Market in Taipei to Peterborough, Ontario and Nanton, Alberta. Through memory, mourning, geographies and sexualities, this poetic narrative is at once a memento mori and meditations upon wabi sabi.
Wait Until Late Afternoon
Book Launch
Thursday, November 5, 6 pm
The ARTery
9535 Jasper Avenue NW, Edmonton, AB T5H 3V2
(780) 441-6966
no cover charge
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Fix yourself a big Manhattan (rye, not bourbon), then sit in
your favourite chair as far as possible from the dirty dishes,
and read your way through this lyric conversation. Hear it
aloud inside your barely sober head. These are words you can
give yourself to with confidence, they are that precise and that evocative. -- George Bowering
Bateman and Goto share these pages with a tipsy, razor-edged
humility. Intriguing, painful, funny and moving, these poems
speak to each other in a conversation that seduced me like a
row of glittering, multi-coloured cocktails. You can’t just have one… I downed the whole book in one sitting. -- Evalyn Parry
ABOUT DAVID BATEMAN
David Bateman is a spoken word poet and performance artist presently based in Toronto. His most recent performances, A Brief History of White Virgins or The Night Freddy Kissed Me, and What’s It Like? were presented in Vancouver, Peterborough, Ottawa, Montreal, and Toronto during the winter of 2009. He has presented his work across the country over the past twenty years and also teaches drama, literature, and creative writing at a variety of Canadian post-secondary institutions. His performance work has been published by Blizzard Press, Ordinary Press, and finewords chapbooks.
ABOUT HIROMI GOTO
Hiromi Goto is the award-winning author of Chorus of Mushrooms, and The Kappa Child. She has also written a children’s novel, The Water of Possibility, and a collection of short stories, Hopeful Monsters. Her most recent publication is a young adult novel, Half World, published by Penguin Canada. She and David Bateman collaborated on and showcased a performance piece entitled The Cowboy and the Geisha.
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