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Is it possible to write a contemporary novel entirely in poetic verse? Can you write in a language other than your own? At the English language premiere of her latest novel Fences In Breathing (translated by Susanne de Lotbini�re-Harwood), famed experimental author, poet and feminist Nicole Brossard will speak with fellow cross-genre writer Margaret Christakos about the relative merits of writing novels and poetry, and what happens when one bleeds into another. Marc Glassman, Executive Director of This is Not A Reading Series and Proprietor of Pages Books & Magazines will host the evening. � A This is Not A Reading Series event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, Coach House Books, Gladstone Hotel and Take Five On CIUT.
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen St West, Toronto
Tues Apr 14; 7:30pm (Doors 7pm) $5 (Free With Book Purchase)

FENCES IN BREATHING Invited to a quiet Swiss ch�teau by the enigmatic Tatiana Beaujeu Lehmann, Anne begins to slowly write a novel in a language that is not hers, a language that makes meaning foreign and keeps her alert to the world and its fiery horizon. Will the strange intoxication that takes hold of her and her characters � sculptor Charles; his sister Kim, about to leave for the Arctic; Kim�s love, June, owner of a video store; and Laure Ravin, a lawyer obsessed with the Patriot Act � allow her to break through the darkness of the world? Fences in Breathing, first published and critically lauded in French as La capture du sombre, is a disquieting, dexterous, and defiant missive, another triumph by Nicole Brossard, one of North America�s foremost practitioners of innovative writing.

NICOLE BROSSARD is a poet, novelist and essayist who has published more than thirty books since 1965, including These Our Mothers, Lovhers, Mauve Desert and Baroque at Dawn. She co-founded La Barre du Jour and La Nouvelle Barre de Jour, two important literary journals in Quebec. She has won two Governor General's Awards for poetry, as well as le Prix Athanase-David, and her work has been translated into several languages.

MARGARET CHRISTAKOS is the award-winning author of six acclaimed poetry collections and a novel, Charisma, shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. She teaches creative writing and runs �Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon� at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. Her most recent collection, Sooner was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award.

SUSANNE DE LOTBINI�RE-HARWOOD is the author of Rebelle et infid�le/The Body Bilingual. She has translated many works of theory and fiction into French and English, including Brossard�s Mauve Desert and She Would Be the First Sentence of My Next Novel.

MEDIA CONTACTS:
Nicole Brossard, Margaret Christakos, Susanne de Lotbini�re-Harwood: Evan Munday, evan@chbooks.com, (416) 979-2217
This Is Not A Reading Series: Chris Reed, tinars@pagesbooks.ca, (416) 598-1447 ext 221