Afua's on tour!

Afua Cooper continues her books tour for the Fall/Winter 06 season 2006:

October 1 - The Ottawa International Writers Festival

From the Festival's schedule:

Sunday, October 1 @ 4:00 pm
BIG IDEA: The Untold Story
of Canadian Slavery
with Afua Cooper

$12 / $10 Student or Senior / $6 Festival Member

“The most important piece of Canadian history written in decades, Afua Cooper’s The Hanging of Angélique shakes the earth beneath the Canadian nation story”
— Dionne Brand

The flattering self-portrait of Canada that many of us learned in school is powerfully exposed in The Hanging of Angélique. Dr. Afua Cooper shocks us awake to our repression of the history of Canadian slavery and challenges us to recover our lost narrative. “Everyone turned out to see the spectacle of the hanging, to gaze upon the Black woman who had burnt their town. She passed in the rubbish cart, her head bare, her legs a bloody mass, her body covered with the garment of the condemned.” Angélique’s history is the first known Black slave narrative in North America.

Sunday, October 1 @ 8:00 pm
Poetry Cabaret

featuring Ronnie R. Brown, Jon Paul Fiorentino and Afua Cooper
$15 / $12 Student or Senior / $8 Festival Member

An evening of acclaimed Canadian poetry that runs the gamut from Ottawa’s Ronnie R. Brown, who was described by Irving Layton as “the only female version of Layton that I can see on the horizon” to Jon Paul Fiorentino, dubbed “one of Montreal’s finest poets” by Hour Montreal, to Toronto’s Afua Cooper, whose poetry is praised as “eloquent and visionary.”

“Seldom can a book of poetry be called a page-turner, but Brown’s States of Matter contains absorbing micro-novels, enticing you with situations that could be yours or a friend’s.”
— Canadian Bookseller

"Fiorentino is in the midst of something grand."
— The Globe and Mail

"Incantatory, vivid, passionate, sensual, incendiary—Afua Cooper’s poetry delivers rich nourishment for the imagination."
— Allan Briesmaster

October 10-15 - WordFest 2006 (Banff Calgary International Writers Festival)

For a complete listing of all the events, go to Afua's Author Profile on their website.

October 17 - University of Victoria

Afua will be reading and performing at an event hosted by the Department of History and Women's Studies.

October 18 & 19 - Simon Fraser University (Burnaby Campus)

Afua will be a guest of the Women's Studies department at their Burnaby Campus on the 18th, and a guest of the Creative Writing department at their Vancouver campus on the 19th.

October 30 - November 1 - New University of Lisbon

Afua will be the guest of the English Studies deparment at the New
University of Lisbon, Portugal.