Katharine Hamer
News Reporter khamer@usnews.coui
bill bissett arrives for an interview on a grey

_ afternoon dressed in black from baseball cap to

umbrella, carrying a plastic bag of oranges.

“They. were six for a dollar,” he enthuses, “it’s so suave.”

He poses for a photo in Victoria Park, musing aloud about
the origins of an unknown stain on the lapel of his jacket.

[tell him I usually find these anonymous blotches to be
toothpaste. “Yes,” he says excitedly, “that's it — and maybe
the stuff on the trees is the toothpaste from the people
above.”

It doesn’t take much to fire bissett’s imagination: he’s
known for being a spirited iconoclast.

The author of over 60 published collections who immersed
himself in °60s counter-culture when he first moved to
Vancouver takes on the role of mentor to Capilano College
writing students next month as a writer in residence.

Three days a week, five hours a day, for the last nvo weeks
of October, bissett's office will be open to students registered

in the college’s Writing Practices Program.

THE irrepressibie bili bissett: coming to Capilano College in October as a writer
in residence for the Writing Practices Program.

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CURTAIN CALL

Too much
baggage
on Voyage

& The Coronation Voyage by
Michel Mare Bouchard,
translated by Linda
Gaboriau. At the Vancouver
Playhouse to Oct. 7, box
office: 873-3311.

Martin Millerchip

Arts Editor
momillerchip@nsnews.comt

READ up on some
Canadian history before
going to see the
Vancouver Playhouse
production of The

Coronation Voyage.

Reading of the program
prior to curtain is required
too. And if you can attend a
Monday night performance _
for the “talkback” afterwards
with the cast, you'll learn even
more,

Of course, a successful
production should give you
what you need to enjoy the
script between lights ur and
the curtain call. That Zhe
Coronation Vevage lett more
than a few patrons baffled on
the beach was evident by the
number of patrons who dis-

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