Reading by John Pass and Hope Anderson

Apr 4, 1985
Field:

Reading, Performance

Location:

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

Time:

8:00 p.m.

Description:

Western Front presented a reading by poets John Pass and Hope Anderson, who both contributed to the anthology The Body (1979). 

Pass read a selection of poems from his book An Arbitrary Dictionary (1984) as well as new work. Anderson read epistolary poems from a manuscript previously titled “Slips.”

The evening was hosted by Western Front poetry curator Charles Watts.

Audio documentation is available upon request.

Related People

Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.