In-person Poetry Workshop with Dr. Shane Neilson

anushree.joshi2@mail.mcgill.ca — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:31:44 +0000

Thursday, March 10, 2022 17:00to19:00

Articulating the Body: Ekphrasis in the Maude Abbott Medical Museum

Poetry Matters is delighted to invite your presence to our first in-person workshop of the year, called Articulating the Body: Ekphrasis in the Maude Abbott Medical Museum. This workshop, led by poet and physician Dr. Shane Neilson, will guide participants through ekphrastic writing exercises that engage objects housed in the Maude Abbott’s unique collection of medical specimens.

The Museum is home to exciting ekphrastic possibilities in their collection, which speaks to us across time, anatomy, and sometimes even species. We’re grateful to offer this workshop in collaboration with Dr. Richard Fraser, Professor of Pathology and Director of the museum. Registration is required and space limited.

About the Facilitator

Shane Neilson is a poet, physician, literary critic, and scholar of Canadian literatures. His work includes poetry collections such as Complete Physical and Exterminate My Heart, as well as essays on his experience as a physician, Call Me Doctor and Gunmetal Blue. Awards for his poetry include Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poet of the Year, the Hamilton Literary Award; The Walrus Poetry Prize; and the shortlist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and the Trillium Poetry Prize. Shane is a SSHRC Postdoctoral fellow from the Department of English, University of Ottawa. He is currently an assistant professor of Family Medicine at McMaster University, and he continues to practice medicine in Guelph, Ontario.

Registration and venue

This is a great opportunity to see a new side of 91ɬ�� or to revisit a familiar space with new modes of attention. Thus, we encourage you to register as soon as possible by completing the "Contact Us" form on the Poetry Matters website as registration will be confirmed on a first-come, first-serve basis due to limited space.

Venue: Maude Abbott Medical Museum, Strathcona Anatomy & Dentistry Building, 3640 University Street, Room 38E, Montréal/Tiohtià:ke, Quebec H3A 0C7

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Faculty of Arts, Dept. of English, Medicine and Health Sciences

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