In-person Poetry Workshop with Dr. Shane Neilson
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听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鈥檚 unique collection of medical specimens.听
The Museum is home to exciting ekphrastic possibilities in their collection, which speaks to us across time, anatomy, and sometimes even species. We鈥檙e grateful to offer this workshop in collaboration with听听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听Complete Physical听补苍诲听Exterminate My Heart, as well as essays on his experience as a physician,听Call Me Doctor听补苍诲听Gunmetal Blue. Awards for his poetry include听Arc Poetry Magazine鈥檚 Poet of the Year, the Hamilton Literary Award;听The Walrus听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 91社区 or to revisit a familiar space with new modes of attention.听Thus, we encourage you to register as soon as possible by completing the听"Contact Us" form on the Poetry Matters website听as registration will be confirmed on a first-come, first-serve basis due to limited space.