news | Friday May 3, 2013

Interurban Launch for the Monument Cycles!

On May 11 2013 at 7:30pm, join poet Mariner Janes for the launch of his first book of poems The Monument Cycles at Interurban Gallery in Vancouver.

Written through the lens of history, geography, and a fear of memory, The Monument Cycles roams from meditations on DNA and remembrance, to transportation, nuclear weapons, and community, veering into societal invective. The book begins by investigating human relation to monuments and works of public art: Why do we make these representations of people, history, and place? From Emily Pauline Johnson’s memorial rock in Vancouver’s Stanley Park to the cenotaphs throughout the city, we attempt to make permanent the impermanent, to hold on to the fleeting, the intangible.