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Montreal Double Book Launch: House Within a House and Baby Book
May 20, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Join D.M. Bradford, Amy Ching-Yan Lam, and Nicholas Dawson for a double book launch in Montréal! Hosted by Michael Nardone.
Location: Librairie Le Port de tėte (222 avenue du Mont-Royal Est, Montréal QC H2T 1P5)
**We kindly ask that people mask for this event**
AMY CHING-YAN LAM is an artist and writer. She is the author of Looty Goes to Heaven (2022) and her poems have been published by Book Works, Montez Press, and yolkless press. Baby Book is her first collection of poetry. Lam’s exhibitions, performances, and public artworks, both solo and as part of the collective Life of a Craphead, have been presented at Seoul MediaCity Biennale, Eastside Projects, and Art Gallery of Ontario, amongst others, and she has participated in residencies at Macdowell and Delfina Foundation. She lives in Toronto, which is Mississauga Anishinaabeg treaty territory, as well as the land of the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat. Lam was born in Hong Kong.
DARBY MINOTT BRADFORD is a poet, translator, and editor based in Tio’tia:ke (Verdun). His first book, Dream of No One but Myself, was a finalist for the Gerard Lampert Memorial Award and the Griffin Poetry Prize. His forthcoming collection, Bottom Rail on Top, will be published in 2023. House Within a House is his first book-length translation.
Born in Chile and based in Montréal, NICHOLAS DAWSON is a writer, scholar, and the Literary Director of Éditions Triptyque. He is the author of La déposition des chemins (La Peuplade, 2010), Animitas (La Mèche, 2017), and Désormais, ma demeure (Triptyque, 2020), for which he received the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal and the Blue Metropolis Diversity Prize. He is also the co-author of Nous sommes un continent. Correspondance mestiza (Triptyque, 2021, with Karine Rosso), and the editor of many anthologies.
MICHAEL NARDONE is a poet and editor based in Montréal. His works include OEI #98-99: Aural Poetics, The Ritualites, Sonic Materialities, Transaction Record, and, with live artist Dana Michel, Yellow Towel: A Score.