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SUMMARY:Planet Earth Poetry Series: Garth Martens
DESCRIPTION:Garth Martens\, author of Who Else in the Dark Headed There: Poems\, will be reading for the Planet Earth Poetry Series! \nHosted by Kyeren Regehr\, the reading will take place at Russell Books on Friday\, April 10 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nOrder a copy of Who Else in the Dark Headed There here! \nABOUT WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE \nIn his first collection since the Governor General’s–nominated Prologue for the Age of Consequence\, Martens adds an autobiographical lens to his concerns about class and labour. \nA mother disappears. A son struggles to make sense of the life she left behind. Set against the stark northern Alberta of the 1980s and 90s\, Who Else in the Dark Headed There follows a man reaching through time to find the child he was and the father he is becoming. \nBeneath this waking world is another world\, of the overheard\, of the unsaid. To enter is to find a lyricism finely wrought and hallucinatory\, a depth of feeling and fidelity to metaphor in all its guises—but most of all an urgent relationship with language. Here\, in a reconstruction of childhood’s rooms\, Garth Martens approaches the past not as a record but as a pressure\, a “muscled concentration” that reorders\, resuscitates\, and redoubts. \nABOUT GARTH MARTENS \nGarth Martens is the author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence and Who Else in the Dark Headed There. For his first book\, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is also a past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. His poetry appears in Dark Mountain Project\, Poetry Ireland\, Hazlitt\, This Magazine\, Vallum\, Fiddlehead\, and Best Canadian Poetry. He is also a member of Palabra Flamenco\, a literary flamenco ensemble that joins traditional flamenco dance and music with poetry and oral storytelling. He lives in Victoria\, BC.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/planet-earth-poetry-series-garth-martens/
LOCATION:Russell Books\, 100-747 Fort St\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 3E9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading,Reading Series
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SUMMARY:WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE: Kelowna Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Kelowna for the launch of Who Else in the Dark Headed There: Poems by Garth Martens! Garth will be joined by fellow writers Lesley-Anne Evans and Ruth Daniel for the event\, hosted by UBC-O professor Emily Murphy. Copies will be available for sale and signing courtesy of Mosaic Books. \nThe launch will take place at the Benvoulin Church on Tuesday\, April 14 at 7PM. \nOrder a copy of Who Else in the Dark Headed There here! \nABOUT WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE \nIn his first collection since the Governor General’s–nominated Prologue for the Age of Consequence\, Martens adds an autobiographical lens to his concerns about class and labour. \nA mother disappears. A son struggles to make sense of the life she left behind. Set against the stark northern Alberta of the 1980s and 90s\, Who Else in the Dark Headed There follows a man reaching through time to find the child he was and the father he is becoming. \nBeneath this waking world is another world\, of the overheard\, of the unsaid. To enter is to find a lyricism finely wrought and hallucinatory\, a depth of feeling and fidelity to metaphor in all its guises—but most of all an urgent relationship with language. Here\, in a reconstruction of childhood’s rooms\, Garth Martens approaches the past not as a record but as a pressure\, a “muscled concentration” that reorders\, resuscitates\, and redoubts. \nABOUT GARTH MARTENS \nGarth Martens is the author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence and Who Else in the Dark Headed There. For his first book\, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is also a past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. His poetry appears in Dark Mountain Project\, Poetry Ireland\, Hazlitt\, This Magazine\, Vallum\, Fiddlehead\, and Best Canadian Poetry. He is also a member of Palabra Flamenco\, a literary flamenco ensemble that joins traditional flamenco dance and music with poetry and oral storytelling. He lives in Victoria\, BC.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/martens-kelowna-launch/
LOCATION:Benvoulin Church\, 2279 Benvoulin Rd\, Kelowna\, BC\, V1W 2C8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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SUMMARY:SMASH & GRAB: Fredericton Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Fredericton for the launch of Mark Anthony Jarman’s new story collection\, Smash & Grab! The launch will take place at Gallery on Queen\, and books will be available for sale and signing from Westminster Bookmark. \nThe launch will take place on Thursday\, April 16 at 6PM. \nGrab a copy of Smash & Grab here! \nABOUT SMASH & GRAB \n“A Canadian master of the form.”—Gregory Cowles\, New York Times \nA former military policeman\, a veterinarian\, and a French poet walk into a bar and debate the Vietnam war. A couple of men who are part of a commune discover two dead bodies while out sailing. An Irish woman hits a boy with her car and contemplates turning herself in. Two paramedics try to live and not burn out while dealing with so much death. A man on holiday in Venice is stalked by a pickpocket. A heartsick astronaut finds love on the moon. \nIn Smash & Grab Mark Anthony Jarman offers up a mischievous medley of stories that blur the lines between the real and the imagined. Continuing to chronicle the lives of the wayward and unlucky\, it confirms its author as one of the most adventurous guides to the absurdity of twenty-first century existence. \nABOUT MARK ANTHONY JARMAN \nMark Anthony Jarman is the author of Burn Man\, Touch Anywhere to Begin\, Czech Techno\, Knife Party at the Hotel Europa\, My White Planet\, 19 Knives\, New Orleans Is Sinking\, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern\, and the travel book Ireland’s Eye. He is co-editor of a new literary journal CAMEL\, and edited Best Canadian Stories 2023. His novel Salvage King Ya!\, is on Amazon.ca’s list of 50 Essential Canadian Books and is the number one book on Amazon’s list of best hockey fiction. Widely published in Canada\, the US\, Europe\, and Asia\, Jarman is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, a Yaddo fellow\, has taught at the University of Victoria\, the Banff Centre for the Arts\, and the University of New Brunswick. Burn Man was a New York Times Editor’s Choice in 2024.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/smash-grab-fredericton-launch/
LOCATION:Gallery on Queen\, 406 Queen St\, Fredericton\, NB\, E3B 1B6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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SUMMARY:Marcello Di Cintio at Polar Beak Books
DESCRIPTION:Marcello Di Cintio\, author of Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers\, will be appearing at Polar Peak Books! Marcello will be in conversation with fellow writer Angie Abdou for the event hosted by bookstore co-owner Melanie Jeannotte. There will also be an audience Q&A\, book sales and signing\, and a cash bar. \nThe talk will take place on Saturday\, April 18 at 7PM. \nRSVP and more details here. \nGrab a copy of Precarious here! \nABOUT PRECARIOUS \nA series of profiles of foreign workers illuminates the precarity of global systems of migrant labor and the vulnerability of their most disenfranchised agents. \nIn 2023\, after weeks of investigation\, United Nations Special Rapporteur Tomoyo Obokata came to a scathing conclusion: Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program is “a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.” Workers complained of excessive hours and unpaid overtime; of being forced to perform dangerous tasks or ones not specified in their contracts; of being physically abused\, intimidated\, and sexually harassed; and of overcrowded\, unsanitary living conditions that deprived them of their privacy and dignity. \nIn Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers\, Marcello Di Cintio ranges across the country speaking to those who have come from elsewhere to till our fields\, bathe our elderly\, and serve us our Double Doubles\, uncovering stories of tremendous perseverance\, resilience\, and humanity\, but also of precarity and vulnerability. He shows that vast swathes of our economy depend on the work of people we don’t see\, while expanding our awareness of what migrant work now entails\, and revealing that our mistreatment of the most vulnerable among us diminishes our own dignity. \nABOUT MARCELLO DI CINTIO \nMarcello Di Cintio is the author of six books\, including Walls: Travels Along the Barricades\, Pay No Heed to the Rockets: Palestine in the Present Tense\, and Driven: The Secret Lives of Taxi Drivers. He has also written for the Globe and Mail\, The Walrus\, The International New York Times\, and Canadian Geographic\, among others. He lives in Calgary.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/marcello-di-cintio-at-polar-beak-books/
LOCATION:Polar Peak Books\, 482 2nd Ave.\, Fernie\, BC\, V0B 1M0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:OBLIVIOUS: Toronto Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Toronto to celebrate the final book—and life’s work—of acclaimed author Elaine Dewar. \nElaine Dewar didn’t live to see the publication of her last book\, Oblivious\, an investigative masterwork that every Canadian should read. Oblivious examines one of the most shameful chapters in Canadian history: the government-sanctioned medical experiments on an Indigenous population. Elaine Dewar raises unwelcome questions about who knew what and when—and what the obliviousness means for this country’s reconciliation with First Nations and other going forward. Please come and help celebrate Elaine’s lifelong legacy of pursuing uncomfortable truths. \nThis launch\, hosted by Marci McDonald\, will take place at Massey College on Wednesday\, April 29 at 5PM EST. \nRSVP to Dominique at dbechard@biblioasis.com \nGrab a copy of Oblivious here. \nABOUT OBLIVIOUS \nOver the last thirty years\, Canadians have been forced to face their country’s genocidal attempt to destroy its Indigenous populations through segregation\, poverty\, coerced labour\, and infectious diseases. Few have read the statements of claim\, academic literature\, or multi-volume commission reports setting out exactly what we stole and who we hurt (and how); and the policies and decisions which harmed generations of Indigenous people are still not broadly known. \nIn Oblivious\, investigative journalist Elaine Dewar exposes the governmental and psychological machinery that allowed this to continue for so long. The granddaughter of settlers saved during their first Prairie winter by the generosity of Indigenous neighbours\, Dewar explores how even well-meaning Canadians who glimpsed what was being done did nothing to stop it. In the process\, she uncovers further evidence of crimes against Indigenous people\, including unethical and cruel scientific experiments\, a segregated and woefully inadequate health care system\, and a callous indifference to Indigenous well-being that has almost entirely eroded the sense of trust true reconciliation must be based on. \nPart memoir\, part investigation\, Oblivious tells the story of a Jewish girl from Saskatoon\, Saskatchewan\, who grew up in a society so segregated—its Indigenous people consigned to an alternate universe—that she\, like so many of us\, failed to notice their plight for decades. \nABOUT ELAINE DEWAR \nElaine Dewar (1948–2025)—author\, journalist\, television story editor—has been honoured by nine National Magazine awards\, including the prestigious President’s Medal\, and the White Award. Her first book\, Cloak of Green\, delved into the dark side of environmental politics and became an underground classic. Bones: Discovering the First Americans\, an investigation of the science and politics regarding the peopling of the Americas\, was a national bestseller and earned a special commendation from the Canadian Archaeological Association. The Second Tree: of Clones\, Chimeras\, and Quests for Immortality won Canada’s premier literary nonfiction prize from the Writers’ Trust. The Handover was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for nonfiction. On The Origin of the Deadliest Pandemic in 100 Years broke front page news in the Globe and Mail with its investigation into the infiltration of Canada’s only level four microbiology institution by leading Chinese military researchers who subsequently fled the country. Called “Canada’s Rachel Carson\,” Dewar aspired to be a happy warrior for the public good.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/oblivious-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:Massey College\, 4 Devonshire Place\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2E1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE: Victoria Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Victoria for the launch of Who Else in the Dark Headed There: Poems by Garth Martens! \nThe launch will take place at Caffe Fantastico on Thursday\, April 30 at 7PM. \nOrder a copy of Who Else in the Dark Headed There here! \nABOUT WHO ELSE IN THE DARK HEADED THERE \nIn his first collection since the Governor General’s–nominated Prologue for the Age of Consequence\, Martens adds an autobiographical lens to his concerns about class and labour. \nA mother disappears. A son struggles to make sense of the life she left behind. Set against the stark northern Alberta of the 1980s and 90s\, Who Else in the Dark Headed There follows a man reaching through time to find the child he was and the father he is becoming. \nBeneath this waking world is another world\, of the overheard\, of the unsaid. To enter is to find a lyricism finely wrought and hallucinatory\, a depth of feeling and fidelity to metaphor in all its guises—but most of all an urgent relationship with language. Here\, in a reconstruction of childhood’s rooms\, Garth Martens approaches the past not as a record but as a pressure\, a “muscled concentration” that reorders\, resuscitates\, and redoubts. \nABOUT GARTH MARTENS \nGarth Martens is the author of Prologue for the Age of Consequence and Who Else in the Dark Headed There. For his first book\, he was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. He is also a past winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. His poetry appears in Dark Mountain Project\, Poetry Ireland\, Hazlitt\, This Magazine\, Vallum\, Fiddlehead\, and Best Canadian Poetry. He is also a member of Palabra Flamenco\, a literary flamenco ensemble that joins traditional flamenco dance and music with poetry and oral storytelling. He lives in Victoria\, BC.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/martens-victoria-launch/
LOCATION:Caffe Fantastico\, 965 Kings Rd\, Victoria\, BC\, V8T 0C4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at the BOOKED! Fernie Writers' Series
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Adderson\, author of the short story collection A Way to Be Happy\, is appearing as the last writer in the BOOKED! Fernie Writers’ Series 25/26 season. Caroline will be speaking in conversation with local author Angie Abdou. \nThe event is free to attend\, and will take place on Thursday\, May 26 2026 at 7PM PDT. The event is 19+ event in accordance with their liquor license. \nMore details and registration here. \nOrder a copy of A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A CBC Best Fiction Book of the Year \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/caroline-adderson-at-the-booked-fernie-writers-series/
LOCATION:Fernie Heritage Library\, 492 3 Ave\, Fernie\, BC\, V0B 1M0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Discussion,Festival
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