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Christian Bök

Date: 
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Performance: 
5:00pm
Venue: 
Festival Plaza at Ottawa City Hall - Mirror Tent
Cost: 
Tickets: $16 General Seating ($12 for Students), $28 Reserved Section
Host: 
Max Middle

Bök FlyerChristian Bök gives a solo reading in Ottawa for the first time since 2002.

Bök is the author of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which won the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Last year, Eunoia was published in the UK where it quickly went to the top of best selling lists for poetry. His first book, Crystallography, was published by Coach House Press in 1994 and was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award.

Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. Bök has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso performances of sound poetry (particularly the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters). His conceptual artworks (which include books built out of Rubik’s cubes and Lego bricks) have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. He is currently working on 'The Xenotext Experiment' with scientist, Stuart Kaufmann, to compose "living poetry". He intends to encode short verse in a sequence of DNA and implant it in a bacterium; the text once translated is "expressed" by the organism. Such an organism is intended to become both a mechanism for writing and storing a poem. He plans to document the progress of the publishing experiment and make related artwork for exhibition in galleries. Bök is Professor of English at the University of Calgary.

BÖK's reading will be followed by a brief Q&A.

Books and CDs by the author will be available for sale and signing.

TICKETS

Adult $16

Student $12

Reserved Section $28

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Tickets for Christian Bök can purchased in the following ways:

1) The Canadian Tulip Festival office
35 O’Connor Street, Suite 302
(613) 567-5757, ext “0”
info@tulipfestival.ca

2) Max Middle
director@abseries.org
(613) 237-4309
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3) Capital Tickets
www.capitaltickets.ca
(613) 599-3267
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4) Ticket Outlets
For Christian Bök

Nicholas Hoare Books
419 Sussex Drive
Ottawa,ON
K1N 9M6
613-562-2665
ddollin@nicholashoare.ca

Collected Works Bookstore
1242 Wellington Street West
Ottawa, ON K1Y 3A4
Tel 613.722.1265
info@collected-works.com

Compact Music (Downtown)
190 Bank Street, Ottawa, ON, K2P 1W8
613-233-7626
compact@bellnet.ca

Compact Music (Glebe)
7851⁄2 Bank Street, Ottawa, ON, K1S 3V5
613-233-8922
compact@sympatico.ca

Christian Bök online:

The A B Series gratefully acknowledges the support of The Canada Council for this event.