BOOK LAUNCH

TWUC members Sarah Klassen and Sally Ito, along with League of Canadian Poets member Joanne Epp, are the poet-translators of a new book by CMU Press in Winnipeg:

Wonder-Work: Selected Sonnets of Catharina Regina von Greieffenberg

An unusual Austrian poet from the Baroque period meets 21st century Canadian poet-translators in this exceptional book. Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg's intense devotional poems are matched with innovative and moving new English versions. This is astonishing Metaphysical poetry: original, provocative, reverent. The translators have chosen 65 poems from 300 in Greiffenberg's best-known work , Geistliche Sonnette, Lieder und Gedichte.

The book launch at McNally Robinson Booksellers in Winnipeg is both in-person and livestreamed. Everyone welcome.