Upcoming Author Events

Family, migration and personal identity are explored in Ann Shin's powerful new book, The Family China. In these poems, Ann explores how household objects and china become emblematic of domestic life.

Ann and interviewer/This Is Not A Reading Series Artistic Director Marc Glassman will meet at centre stage and smash family plates before their interview. Rest assured: their conversation won’t be polite talk about poetry! You can bring a piece of family china and break it — literally — with Ann in this no-holds-barred launch.

A veteran documentarian who has worked as an independent and at the CBC, Ann will screen a film series of people shattering their family china and talking about their lives, hopes and fears.

Film, talk, performance and poetry. Ann’s launch will have it all. It's literary, it's punk, it's William Ashley meets Sid Vicious.

Soho House requires a guest list, so please RSVP to thefamilychinarsvp@gmail.com

Charmaine Cadeau will read from her new poetry collection Placeholder at the Pivot reading series on Wednesday, June 5 with Andrew Faulkner, Michael Lista and Ayelet Tsabari.

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Kate Cayley reads from her first poetry collection When This World Comes to an End with Paul Vermeersch - Poems that journey through a tapestry of myths, archetypes and fables; of histories invented and revisited.

Solitary Collaboration – the Whys and Hows of Ekphrasis with Stephanie Bolster and New Forms, New Shapes for Poetry with Jo Shapcottwith Jo Shapcott

Stephanie Bolster is the author of four collections of poetry, the most recent of which is A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth (Brick Books, 2011). She has won the Governor General's, the Archibald Lampman, and the Gerald Lampert Awards. Born in Vancouver, she teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montréal.

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Group reading with Stephanie Bolster, Brad Cran, Dina Del Bucchia, Jamella Hagen, Ian LeTourneau, Jo Shapcott, Bren Simmers, and Garry Thomas Morse.

For more information about the Whitehorse Poetry Festival, go here.

Poetry Reading with Stephanie Bolster, Ian LeTourneau and Dina Del Bucchia.

For more information about the Whitehorse Poetry Festival, go here.