The Hobo's Crowbar: Book launch (Toronto)

Join the award-winning author 

of Sidewalk Flowers (Groundwood, 2015)

 JonArno Lawson 

and

visual artist Alec Dempster

for the launch of their new book

The Hobo's Crowbar

Text by JonArno Lawson

Woodcuts by Alex Dempster

The Porcupine's Quill

 9780889843998

96 pp.

All ages

October 2016

on 

Sunday, October, 16, 2016

from 2-4 p.m.

at

Maizal

133 Jefferson Avenue

Toronto, ON

This illustrated book of poetry is described, as follows, at The Porcupine's Quill website:

The latest wacky and wonderful collection of children’s poetry, Governor General’s Award winner JonArno Lawson’s The Hobo’s Crowbar presents a world of word botchers and bird watchers, of vile versifiers and vigilante interventionists, of nobodies and somebodies, big guys and small fries. Lawson’s world is one of logic and language, of wit and words, of contradictions and conundrums, but it is also a world in which looking and learning go hand-in-hand, with laughter never far behind. 

The book is as fun to see as it is to say, and vibrant woodcuts by artist Alec Dempster are a perfect accompaniment to Lawson’s poems. Together, they help to expose the highs and lows of life, and celebrate goofiness, absurdity and the profound truth of human experience.