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www.oakvillebeaver.com · OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, April 16, 2010 · 30 Sawchuk poet to speak about his work and inspiration By Dominik Kurek OAKVILLE BEAVER STAFF Award-winning Canadian poet Randall Maggs will be in Oakville this weekend to read some of his work and to talk about hockey and how it relates to life. The poet and recently retired English university professor will be at the Moonshine Café on Sunday, April 18 from noon to 2 p.m. as part of Oakville's Poetry Month. Maggs will read selections from his poetry book Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, inspired by the late NHL goaltender Terry Sawchuk who played on five of the original six teams between 1949 and 1970. He died in 1970 at age 40. Downtown Oakville BIA presents DON VAPPIE & THE CREOLE JAZZ SERENADERS Thursday April 29 2010 NEW ORLEANS' FINEST! All performances are at The Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts To purchase tickets, please call our box office at 905-815-2021 or order on-line at www.oakvillecentre.ca GRAND OPENING NO PST NO GST Davinchi FINAL WEEKEND, ENDS SUNDAY bration! Cele Door Crasher Specials AREA RUGS FROM $39.99 Ghalib POETRY FROM LIFE: Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems, was penned by poet Randall Maggs who will be here Sunday to speak about his work. "The poems are all about collection of poems about him (Sawchuk) to some Sawchuk won numerous extent, but they're much awards including the more than that," Maggs $25,000 Kobzar 2010 said. "They're about fami- Literary Award. lies, they're about immigra"The first poem that I tion, they're about the wrote that made use of inability to speak what's hockey really was a inside yourself." metaphor," he said referring The nearly 200-page to one of the pieces in the book, The Season of Wayward Thinking. "It wasn't about hockey in itself, it was about the difference between the world where I'd grown up out west and the world I was living in at that time which was Newfoundland." Maggs currently resides in Newfoundland. During the time when Sawchuk was playing hockey and making a name for himself, Maggs lived in Winnipeg -- Sawchuk's birthplace -- so the poet's interest in the hockey player has existed since his youth. Also, hockey was a part of his family's life as he played the sport himself and his brother played professionally for the Chicago Blackhawks. Maggs said his poetry reading will be more than just poetry alone. "I'll talk about Terry at the centre of the book," he said. "I'll talk about the goaltenders of that period and how they revolutionized the game. I'll probably talk a lot about history and story because this is a work of imagination. I'm inside Terry's head a good part of the time." 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