John Wall Barger is returning to Canada this August for a limited number of readings to promote his newest collection, The Book of Festus. You can catch John at the following locations:

Montreal:
August 8th @ 7:30pm, Atwater Poetry Project
with Carmine Starnino, Marc Di Saverio, Jesse Anger, Quincy R. Lehr, Ernest Hilbert, and Hannah Hackney
Atwater Library and Computer Centre:  Atwater Ave., Westmount, QC.

Halifax:
August 12th @ 6:30 pm, Book Launch and Workshop,
Halifax Central Library: 5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax, NS.
August 13th @ 6:30pm, Book Launch, in partnership with Bookmark II
The Company House:2202 Gottingen Street, Halifax, NS.

Lunenburg:
August 15th @ 6:30 pm, Book Launch
with special guest reader Cory Lavender
Lexicon Books:125 Montague St., Lunenburg, NS.

Toronto:
August 23rd @ 2:00 pm, Palimpsest Press Garden Party
with Ruth Roach Pierson, Elizabeth Ross and Jeffery Donaldson
Toronto, ON
August 25th @ 8:00 pm, Art Bar Reading Series with Bob MacKenzie and Natalie Zina Walschots
The Black Swan: 154 Danforth Ave, Toronto, ON.

And for our friends in Hong Kong, you can catch John on
September 2nd @ 7:30 pm, Peel Street Poetry and Poetry Outloud Reading Series
Orange Peel Music Lounge: 38-44 D’Aguilar Street, Central, Hong Kong.