Watershed Press Cumberland Readings

Venue

• The Masonic Lodge
  2687 Dunsmuir Ave, Cumberland, BC

Schedule

Saturday 8/15/2026

• 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Talk by Jason Wirth on the poetry of Jan Zwicky. Jan Zwicky and Garth Martens will read “Say It” followed by a question period.

• 7 PM - 9:00 PM | Warm up readings by local contributors to the Cascadian Zen anthology (5 minutes each). Follwed by readings by Robert Michael Pyle and James Dott.

Sunday 8/16/2026

• 3 PM - 4:00 PM | Living room: Local poets share their work.

• 4 PM - 5:30 PM | Garth Martens will read from his new book: Who Else in the Dark Headed There. Robert Bringhurst reading and launch of Buying the Ghosts a Drink.

Readers

• Robert Bringhurst

• Robert Michael Pyle

• James Dott

• Jan Zwicky

• Garth Martens

• Jason Wirth

By donation.

Garth Martens is the author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence and Who Else in the Dark Headed There. For his first book, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is also a co-founder of Palabra Flamenco, a literary flamenco ensemble. He lives in Victoria, BC.

Robert Bringhurst is a poet, essayist, linguist, translator, and typographer. Incidentally, he is also a pretty good carpenter, forester, mountaineer, and field naturalist who has worked for extended periods in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. He was born in Los Angeles in 1946 and has lived on the British Columbia coast for fifty years. Along the way, he has written a number of books, both poetry and prose.