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Miller and Lerch’s collaborative poem ‘Disharmonies’ launches letterpress edition tonight at Struts
Poets Marylin Lerch and Geordie Miller started a conversation about their work near the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it turned into a collaboration that is being celebrated tonight, at the launch of Disharmonies, a poem written by both Miller and Lerch and printed here in Sackville by Hardscrabble Press.
The gathering starts at 7pm at Struts Gallery, and will be outside, weather permitting.
CHMA caught up with Lerch and Miller in a shady backyard, with the howling Sackville winds in the background:
Here’s Miller and Lerch reading a selection from Disharmonies:
Lerch is a retired teacher who has been living and writing in Sackville for 26 years, and served as the town’s Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2018. Miller settled in the town in 2015, when he started teaching poetry at Mount Allison. He’s also chair of the board for Sappyfest.
Miller says the collaboration started with Lerch, a mentor, reaching out to find out what Miller was working on. “She asked, are you writing? And what are you writing? And I found I was writing these kind of weird, angry poems, which I guess wasn’t so strange in the fall of 2020,” recalls Miller. “So we started sharing the poems back and forth… and it started to gather some momentum and eventually became a book.”… Continue