6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Tuesday Night Talk
The 1917 Halifax Explosion and the experiences of Black Haligonians in poetic verse will be shared by Halifax’s seventh poet laureate, Dr. Afua Cooper. The Halifax Explosion 6 December 1917 at 9:05 in the Morning is a recent publication of Dr. Cooper’s powerful poetry, which reflects upon the historical disaster of two ships colliding in the Halifax Harbour during World War I. This book shows the tragic toll the resulting explosion and fire took on the residents of Halifax, and the surrounding area, which stretched all the way north to Africville. Dr. Cooper’s powerful words are magnified in this book with dramatic historical photographs and poignant art.
Dr. Cooper will read excerpts from the poem and discuss her work with the audience. Attendees will have a chance to purchase and have their books signed.
Dr. Afua Cooper is an award-winning poet and historian. She is the Principal Investigator of A Black People's History of Canada. Dr. Cooper holds a Killam Research Chair at Dalhousie University.
Poetry is movement, poetry is politics, it’s everything. It fires the imagination and so that excites me because in firing the imagination then we produce a new world.
-Dr. Afua Cooper
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www.afuacooper.com
www.blackpeopleshistory.ca