Memorable poetic moments often work as elegant mathematic equations do: with a simplicity that embodies infinite dimension. Is it true that poems that land strongly with a live listening audience are less syntactically or syllabically complex than contemporary poems that that aim to satisfy a book reader? In their talk, L'Abbé will discuss what they’ve learned about simplicity from writing poems for today’s page and writing poems for performance and song.
About the speaker
Sonnet L'Abbé is a Canadian poet, performer, editor, and professor. They are the author of A Strange Relief, Killarnoe, Anima Canadensis and Sonnet's Shakespeare. They teach Creative Writing and English at Vancouver Island University, and are a poetry editor at Brick Books. They had their first solo performance of songs and poems at Nanaimo’s Port Theatre in 2021.
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