Join Matthew Hollett (Optic Nerve), Andrew Faulkner (Heady Bloom), and Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang (Grappling Hook) for an evening of poetry at Lily's Cafe in Picton, ON. Hosted by Leigh Nash with an open mic lottery. With thanks to Books & Company and the Prince Edward County Authors Festival.
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 [...]
What would it look like, to move through the world with the awareness that everything around you is as alive as you are? What comforts, solidarities, and responsibilities can we draw from a renewed understanding of what it means to be ‘in relationship’? These authors examine and imagine a worldview where the human and the [...]
From science fiction to mythology to that lingering feeling of dreams, poetry can be speculative too! Whether it’s fairy tales in verse or a world created in a few tight stanzas, these poets explore the fantastical through the poetic. Moderated by Millie Ho. MONUMENT by Manahil Bandukwala MONUMENT upturns notions of love, monumentalisation, and empire [...]
To celebrate the publication of DM Bradford’s English translation of Nicholas Dawson’s heralded Désormais, ma demeure, writer H Felix Chau Bradley gathers Bradford alongside author Nicholas Dawson and translator-editor Erín Moure for a conversation on the work that went into House Within a House, a book that weaves prose poetry, essay, autobiography and photography in [...]
Hosted by the Toronto Public Library (Yorkville Branch). Lecturer in contemporary literature and culture and author of Deadly and Slick, Dr. Sita Balani joins senior editor of Toronto Life and author of Halal Sex, Sheima Benembarek and Tyler Pennock, a Two-Spirit professor of Indigenous Studies and author of Blood to discuss the making of sexuality [...]
Join Matthew Hollett and readers Mark Callanan and Amy Donovan for the launch of Optic Nerve.
Amy Lam reads with Claire Geddes Bailey, Lisa Smolkin, and Lily Wang.
Amy Lam reads from Baby Book.
Part of the "Did You MIss Me? A Recent Release Reading: Poetry and short stories that were launched during the Pandemic." ALso featuring Molly Cross-Blanchard, Selina Boan, and Christopher Evans.
