Shane Koyczan

This is Shane’s fourth time at Tsunami Books. Expect the best of heart blended with mind. International Spoken Word Sensation Shane Koyczan! Winner of the Individual Champion title at the National Poetry Slam and the Canadian Spoken Word Olympics, Koyczan performed his poem “We Are More” at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. For his social justice work, Shane has received a BC Civil Liberties Award for the Arts. “Shane Koyczan is at the heart of a Category Five creative hurricane” The Vancouver Sun “a symbol of hope …Canada’s best known spoken word poet” CBC The National “heartbreaking but ultimately uplifting” Huffington Post “dazzling wordplay” The Globe And Mail “haunting and beautiful” Pop Matters “unapologetically taps emotion: the deep, real feelings we aren’t generally encouraged to express in public” VUE Weekly “Shane Koyczan’s most prominent attribute as an artist might well be his fearlessness” Victoria Times Colonist “a beacon of hope and change” The Georgia Straight “Poetry isn’t a problem when it’s this cool” Metro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0G-MyLbenE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBmI00trLLU http://www.shanekoyczan.com/