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25/01/2025

Tom Power interviews Anosh Irani about his latest play Behind the Moon on Q! Listen to it here.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/1.6816750

24/01/2025

Award-winning playwright Morris Panych will be directing a production of Flight with the Vancouver Opera! Shows run from February 8–16 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre.

In the unlikely setting of an airport departure lounge, Jonathan Dove’s must-see modern masterpiece soars with comedy and compassion.

23/01/2025

Join Jaspreet Singh, Daphne Marlatt, and surprise musical guests for the launch of Singh’s Dreams of the Epoch & The Rock.

23/01/2025

Cecily Nicholson, author of the award-winning collections Wayside Sang, From the Poplars, and the forthcoming Crowd Source has been named the University of California Berkeley’s 2025 Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry! Congratulations, Cecily!

https://english.berkeley.edu/news/uc-berkeley-english-welcomes-cecily-nicholson-holloway-lecturer-practice-poetry

22/01/2025

Tomorrow! Check out Conversations with Rivers at Novel Idea Bookstore for a fluvial evening of literature! sophie anne edwards will read from her debut collection Conversations with the Kagawong River and Helen Humphreys will read from The River. The pair will also conduct a Q&A, and sign books.

21/01/2025

Leanne Dunic, author of Wet and One and Half of You, has been named the University of the Fraser Valley's Writer-in-Residence! Congratulations, Leanne!

Each year the English department welcomes an accomplished Canadian writer to inspire students, mentor aspiring writers, and provide practical advice on publishing, while receiving dedicated time to work on their own creative projects.  

20/01/2025

Botao Wu writes about The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice from Gold Mountain by Dukesang Wong, translated by Wanda Joy Hoe and edited by David McIlwraith and In | Appropriate edited by Kim Davids Mandar (Gordon Hill Press) in Canadian Literature. Read the piece here:

https://canlit.ca/article/chorus-of-marginalized-voices/

18/01/2025

the berry takes the shape of the bloom by andrea bennett is longlisted for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry! Congratulations to andrea and all of the fantastic poets on the longlist.

https://rclas.com/2024-fred-cogswell-award/

17/01/2025

Kingston! On January 23, check out Conversations with Rivers at Novel Idea Bookstore for a fluvial evening of literature! sophie anne edwards will read from her debut collection Conversations with the Kagawong River and Helen Humphreys will read from The River. The pair will also conduct a Q&A, and sign books. Don't miss it!

16/01/2025

The Manitoulin Expositor covered the Gore Bay launch of Conversations with the Kagawong River by sophie anne edwards. Check out the lovely article here:

https://www.manitoulin.com/conversations-with-the-kagawong-river-book-of-visual-poetry-launched/

15/01/2025

Great to see Samantha Nock, author of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize–shortlisted collection A Family of Dreamers, named in Read Local BC’s article about must-read debut authors. Check it out:

These debut books explore themes of identity, migration, family, and more, all while offering fresh takes on familiar genres.

14/01/2025

Tonight! Catch a reading from Rahat Kurd and Robert Mackay at Albany Books in Tsawassan at 7:00 p.m. PST.

14/01/2025

A Net of Momentary Sapphire by R. Kolewe, The Middle by Stephen Collis, cop city swagger by Mercedes Eng, and Conversations with the Kagawong River by sophie anne edwards all appear on Dusie’s list of top Canadian poetry collections they’ve reviewed this year.

: e-chap : chapchap : & bookbook : reviews :

13/01/2025

Valerie Green reviewed the twentieth anniversary edition of My Turquoise Years: A Memoir by M.A.C. Farrant in The British Columbia Review!

https://thebcreview.ca/2024/12/29/2406-green-farrant/

12/01/2025

Edmonton! On January 15, aiya哎呀 collective and Paper Birch Books are pleased to welcome poet Mercedes Eng for a community conversation about gentrification, policing, colonialism, and alternatives to these forms of structural violence in Chinatown(s) and the inner city, interspersed with readings from Mercedes’ latest book, cop city swagger.

For more information and to register, click here: https://lu.ma/11vjnt9y?tk=3mIGKn

11/01/2025

sophie anne edwards has been named Geopoet in Residence at Queen’s University! edwards’ debut hybrid collection Conversations with the Kagawong River is a phenomenal site-specific engagement with an ecosystem of Mnidoo Mnising (Manitoulin Island). Congratulations, sophie! Read the announcement from Queen’s University here:

sophie anne edwards, environmental artist, geopoet, curator and author of the acclaimed

10/01/2025

Tomorrow! Head to People’s Co-Op Bookstore for the launch of Some 10, featuring readings from the author of Unf**kable Lardass, Catriona Strang, the author of The Middle, Stephen Collis, Elee Karaljii Gardiner, and Rhoda Rosenfeld! Readings begin at 7 p.m. PST.

08/01/2025

On January 14 in Henderson Hall on the University of Alberta Campus, Mercedes Eng will read from her latest poetry collection cop city swagger and share a conversation with author of Fortified Castles, ryan fitzpatrick. cop city swagger offers a poetic critique of police violence in Vancouver and elsewhere, asking how conceptions of safety and care run through the rhetoric and actions of policing. cop city swagger extends a socially-invested poetics that is grounded in the Downtown Eastside and Chinatown communities of Vancouver and that balances social investigation and political advocacy. Eng will discuss cop city swagger in the context of her ongoing work, her mixed-register approach to poetic form, and the ethics of writing about real people and communities. The event starts at 2 p.m. MST.