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SUMMARY:PAST & PRESENT: CELEBRATING ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN - An Evening of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Beechwood Cemetery for a special evening celebrating the life\, poetry and enduring legacy of Archibald Lampman\, one of Canada’s most important early poets.  Presented in partnership with the Poet Laureate of Ottawa and with the support of the League of Canadian Poets and Arc Poetry Magazine\, this special gathering will connect Lampman’s literary legacy with Ottawa’s continuing tradition of poetry and storytelling.   Tuesday\, November 17\, 2026 6:30 p.m. Beecwood National Memorial Center\, Beechwood Cemetery  The date carries particular significance. Archibald Lampman was born on November 17\, 1861\, making this gathering a celebration on the 165th anniversary of his birth.  A member of Canada’s Confederation Poets\, Lampman found inspiration in the Canadian landscape\, exploring nature\, beauty\, solitude and a rapidly changing country through his writing.  Buried at Beechwood\, Lampman remains deeply connected to Ottawa and to the landscapes that shaped so much of his poetry.  Past & Present: Celebrating Archibald Lampman will bring his words back to life and explore why his poetry continues to resonate 165 years after his birth  Join us for an evening of poetry\, history and remembrance celebrating a distinctly Canadian literary voice.     Poets:   David O’Meara is the author of five collections of poetry\, most recently\, Masses On Radar (2021). His novel\, Chandelier\, is published by Nightwood Editions (2024). He is the current Poet Laureate (anglophone) of the City of Ottawa\, Canada’s capital. rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa\, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of some fifty trade books of poetry\, fiction and non-fiction\, his most recent titles include On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press\, 2024)\, the poetry collections the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press\, 2025) and edgeless (Caitlin Press\, 2026)\, and the anthology groundworks: the best of the third decade of above/ground press 2013-2023 (Invisible Publishing\, 2023). The current Artistic Director of VERSeFest: Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival\, he spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta. Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist from Karachi\, Pakistan\, now based in Mississauga and Ottawa\, ON. She is the author of Heliotropia (Brick Books\, 2024; shortlisted for the 2025 Pat Lowther Award and Raymond Souster Award) and MONUMENT (Brick Books\, 2022; shortlisted for the 2023 Gerald Lampert Award). She has been twice-longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize\, in 2019 and 2024\, and was selected as a Writer’s Trust of Canada Rising Star in 2023. She is the co-creator of Reth aur Reghistan\, a multidisciplinary project exploring folklore from Pakistan through poetry\, sculpture\, and community arts. See her work at manahilbandukwala.com. Conyer Clayton is a queer writer\, editor and bookseller from Louisville\, Kentucky\, living in Ottawa. They are the author of But the sun\, and the ships\, and the fish\, and the waves (Winner of the Archibald Lampman Award)\, We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite (Winner of the Ottawa Book Award) and many chapbooks. Conyer’s fiction has been supported by a MacDowell Fellowship and a McCormack Writing Center Scholarship. the lake-shaped excuse is their third book.
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