Michael Ondaatje

A Return to Hugh Garner’s Cabbagetown

Michael Ondaatje, Paul Thompson, Lena MacDonald

“Cabbagetown”, a seminal work by Canadian literary hero, Hugh Garner.  A dusk ’til dawn reading by a collection of artists, personalities and original characters out of old Cabbagetown.  A dramatic story time, ethereal yet grounded in authentic voices and Garner’s hard-bitten prose.

“The dawn is in the crease of his trousers and in the new-appeared eyelets of his shoes. The dawn is in the new shapes around him and in the lighted fields. The dawn is a widened earth, a populated earth. The dawn is not only the beginning of the day, but the ending of the night.”