Book Launch: In Loving Riddles, the Poems of Joseph Sherman

Join us for the launch of In Loving Riddles: the Poems of Joseph Sherman with editor Brian Bartlett. This reading will also be a discussion and retrospective of the work of late PEI poet, Joseph Sherman.

From seven collections of poetry by Joseph Sherman (1945-2006), his friend and fellow poet Brian Bartlett edited a selection published by Acorn Press in the fall of 2024. We welcome you to the first Nova Scotia celebration of this book. Bartlett will discuss and read from Sherman’s poetry. Note: friends of Joe’s from the local arts community, which Joe knew well as the inspired editor of ArtsAtlantic, are invited to read a favourite Sherman poem and say a few words about him.
Books to be sold by Kings Co-op Bookstore.

After his youth in Bridgewater and Sydney, Sherman lived in New Brunswick, where in 1970 he completed the first M.A. Creative Writing thesis at UNB. Then in Charlottetown he was a hardworking editor, beloved, gregarious man about town, and poet of great verbal vigour and wide-ranging empathy. His honours included the Royal Society of Canada Silver Medal, the Bliss Carman Award, the Henry Fuerstenberg Award and the Order of Canada.

When: Wednesday, April 30th 2025 @ 7pm
Where: Trident Booksellers & Cafe, 1256 Hollis St.