In September 2002, the Poets’ Pathway Committee participated in the Ottawa International Writers Festival by putting on a performance at Arts Court, “The Poets’ Pathway: A Walk Through Ottawa’s Literary History.” Six actors, Pádraig Finlay, Peter Politis, Chris Roberts, Katryn Baker, Allan Meltzer and Mark Leahy, dressed up in period costume and recited poems of the Confederation and Mouvement littéraire poets and their contemporaries, in between telling a bit of their (the poets’) life stories.
A chap book was also published (ISBN # 0-9731550-0-0), containing, essentially, the May 2002 brief to the NCC as well as a selection of poems by the Confederation and Mouvement littéraire poets.
Theresa Jobateh attended this event and wrote a delightful pictorial essay about it.
