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AUTHOR-IN-STORE: Timothy BrownlowSaturday Oct 4th, 1-2:30pm
Double Author Day! We will also have John Berger with us from 11am-12:30pm.
In this second author event of the day discover local author Timothy Brownlow who has written a book of poetry entitled When Memory Speaks.
This is a free event, Tim will be chatting with attendees and signing copies. He may also give a reading of a selection from his book at 2pm.
About When Memory Speaks: With its intentional pun on the title of Nabokov’s autobiography, Speak, Memory, and indebtedness to Wordsworth’s Prelude, Timothy Brownlow pushes his “little bark” into the treacherous tides of memory, evoking the lost paradise of his Irish childhood and youth, the various falls from grace of nationality, family, and self, the experience of disillusionment, exile, and self-laceration, followed by a happy marriage and the gradual restoration of faith in life, love, and the enduring power of once-loved places.
This re-integration of the psyche is mediated throughout by the author’s reverence for the art of poetry, which has maintained his stability through spiritual heights and depths. By coming to terms with deep rifts in his inheritance, Brownlow asserts what Wordsworth calls “the growth of the poet’s mind.”
About the author: TIMOTHY BROWNLOW, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at VIU, graduated in Modern Languages Trinity College, Dublin, coedited the Dublin Magazine for 6 years and later completed a doctorate in English at York University, Toronto. He has written several books, When Memory Speaks being his latest. Brownlow and his wife live in Duncan, BC. Find his website here.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
149 Kenneth St, Duncan, BC, Canada, British Columbia V9L1N5
