Freedom to Read

Patrick Errington

Freedom to Read

Patrick Errington

7:30pm

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

West Bays

15 mins

In support of a world free of censorship and book banning TIFA is showcasing the Sanctuary collection of the Toronto Public Library Sanctuary Collection of banned and challenged books.

Authors talk about a particular banned or challenged book that has been important to them and why we must always protect the freedom to read.

This reading will feature Patrick Errington.

Free
Reading

How to attend

This FREE event is open to the public.

In support of a world free of censorship and book banning TIFA is showcasing the Sanctuary collection of the Toronto Public Library Sanctuary Collection of banned and challenged books.

Authors talk about a particular banned or challenged book that has been important to them and why we must always protect the freedom to read.

This reading will feature Patrick Errington.

Free
Reading

Featured Authors

Patrick Errington
Patrick James Errington is a Scottish-Canadian poet, translator, and researcher. His poems appear worldwide in journals and anthologies, as well as in the chapbooks Glean (ignitionpress, 2018) and Field Studies (Clutag Press, 2019), and the new collection the swailing (McGill-Queens University Press, 2023). His work has won numerous awards, including the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada, the Callan Gordon Award from the Scottish Book Trust, and the Poetry International Prize. Patrick is also the French translator of singer-songwriter PJ Harvey’s poetry, and is currently translating the French-Romanian philosopher E.M. Cioran’s Notebooks into English for New York Review Books. As an academic, Patrick’s research draws together poetic and translation theory, cognitive psychology, and neuroaesthetics. He currently lectures at the University of Edinburgh.

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7:30pm

Tuesday, September 26

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15 mins

How to attend

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