A new book capturing the images of some of the west coast’s most admired authors and poets has been launched
A new book called 111 West Coast Literary Portraits features rare portraits of emerging, mid-career and well-known writers who have lived in British Columbia, accompanied by excerpts of their writing. Photographers Barry Peterson and Blaise Enright began photographing writers in 1998, travelling the Coast and Gulf Islands seeking the famous and infamous. They took pictures of writers in their personal spaces, intimate portraits of B.C.’s best, most honoured, as well as emerging, literary talent.
The book is being launched in Nanaimo at the Nanaimo Museum on Saturday Nov.24.
Poet Kim Goldberg has been included in 111 West Coast Literary Portraits and she joins us in the studio to talk about the book, its upcoming launch at the Nanaimo Museum, and to bring us up to date about her recent projects and poetry.
