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Department of Creative Writing, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

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CHARLES LILLARD TO READ IN VANCOUVER

Poet Charles Lillard will give a public reading from his work on

Friday, January 24, at the University of British Columbia. The reading

will begin at 8:00 p.m, in Auditorium 104, the Buchanan Building, on the
U.B.C. campus.

Long a resident of Vancouver, Lillard is now on the faculty of the
Creative Writing Department at the University of Victoria, Until last
year he taught writing courses in the Division of Continuing Education at
U.B.C, Lillard is well known for his strong evocations of scenes and
people from the B.C. and Alaska coast, His poems make extensive use
of logging and fishing terminology peculiar to the Northwest.

Lillard's published work includes two books, Cultus Coulee and
Drunk on Wood, published by the son Nis Press of Vancouver. A third
volume,, entitled Jabble, has been announced for publication in 1975 by
the Kanchenjunga Press.

Critic Robert Gibbs, writing of Lillard's work, has observed that
"the sense of the North is predominant and what a strength it is. = The
richness is the richness of actuality always turned by imagination to its
own ends."

The reading is sponsored by the Canada Council and U.B.C.'s

Department of Creative Writing. There is no charge for admission.

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For further information contact Robert Bringhurst, 733-5200.