READING SERIES 2006
at Mocambo Coffee, 1028 Blanshard, Victoria, B.C., Canada,
V8W 2H5,
(250) 384-4468
FRIDAYS, 7:30 P.M., $3 at the door
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Mocambo Nights is launched! Edited by Patrick Lane and published by Ekstasis Editions.
Lane, Patrick (Ed.)
Mocambo Nights: Poetry from the Mocambo Reading Series. Ekstasis Editions.
ISBN 1-896860-90-7
Award-winning poet Patrick Lane is editor of this remarkable new anthology of
poetry featuring Canada's most revered writers alongside emerging poets and
brand new voices - all readers at the Mocambopo reading series in Victoria,
BC. At the Pacific edge of the country, at the southern tip of Vancouver Island,
Victoria, BC is home to one of Canada's most vibrant literary communities. Every
Friday evening for the past six years the Mocambo Cafe in downtown Victoria
has hosted 'open mike' poetry followed by a featured reader. In a crowded small
room, an eclectic assortment of poetry enthusiasts from all walks of life, drop
their weekday identities and release the poet within. Distinguished featured
poets and writers of all description mingle in an atmosphere of intense concentration
on and delight in the dancing word. Mocambo Nights serves Canadian poetry
at its freshest and finest, a collection readers will want to sample again and
again.
