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SUMMARY:On Book Banning & Barfly: Ira Wells & Michael Lista at Biblio Bash
DESCRIPTION:Join Ira Wells\, author of On Book Banning\, and Michael Lista\, author of Barfly\, for this Biblio Bash at the Toronto Reference Library! \nThis event will take place on Thursday April 3 at 5:30PM EST. \nMore details to come. \nGrab On Book Banning here! \nGet Barfly here! \nABOUT ON BOOK BANNING \nThe freedom to read is under attack. \nFrom the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to today’s state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature\, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases\, literary controversies\, and philosophical arguments\, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that today’s conservatives and progressives alike are warping our children’s relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization\, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves. \nABOUT IRA WELLS \nIra Wells is a critic\, essayist\, and an associate professor at Victoria College in the University of Toronto\, where he teaches in the Northrop Frye stream in literature and the humanities in the Vic One program. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic\, Globe and Mail\, Guardian\, The New Republic\, and many other venues. His most recent book is Norman Jewison: A Director’s Life. He lives in Toronto with his wife and children. \nABOUT BARFLY \nWe’re in love\, but we’re still Millennials. / What’s wrong with our hearts is congenital.  \nIn Barfly\, the poet comes back to haunt himself\, and us. In this incomparable third collection\, his first in a decade\, Michael Lista returns to reinvent poetry with humour\, pugnacity\, and a deeply singular voice. Splicing Byronic rhymes and Auden’s meters with the twenty-first century irreverence of a late-stage Twitter feed\, the poems in Barfly are alternatingly aggressive\, sweet\, deadly\, and raw with a break-your-heart vulnerability. \nABOUT MICHAEL LISTA \nMichael Lista is an investigative journalist\, essayist and poet. He has worked as a book columnist for the National Post and as the poetry editor of The Walrus. He is the author of four books: the poetry volumes Bloom and The Scarborough; Strike Anywhere\, a collection of his writing about literature\, television and culture; and The Human Scale: Murder\, Mischief and Other Selected Mayhems\, a book of longform journalism. His essays and investigative stories have appeared in the New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Slate\, The Walrus\, Canadaland\, and Toronto Life. He is a contributing editor at Toronto Life and Maclean’s. He was the 2017 Margaret Laurence Fellow at Trent University and the winner of the 2020 National Magazine Awards for both Investigative Reporting and Long Form Feature Writing. His story “The Sting” is being adapted by Adam Perlman\, Robert Downey Jr.\, and Team Downey into a television series for Apple TV+.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/on-book-banning-ira-wells-at-biblio-bash/
LOCATION:Toronto Reference Library\, 789 Yonge St\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 2G8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:Ripper: Ottawa Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in Ottawa for the launch of Mark Bourrie‘s Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre! Mark will be reading from his new book\, along with a discussion with host Sean Wilson. Books will be available for sale and signing\, courtesy of Perfect Books. \nThe launch will take place at St. John the Evangelist Church on Saturday\, April 5 at 7PM. \nOrder a copy of Ripper here! \nABOUT RIPPER \nAs Canada heads towards a pivotal election\, bestselling author Mark Bourrie charts the rise of Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre and considers the history and potential cost of the politics of division. \nSix weeks into the Covid pandemic\, New York Times columnist David Brooks identified two types of Western politicians: rippers and weavers. Rippers\, whether on the right or the left\, see politics as war. They don’t care about the destruction that’s caused as they fight for power. Weavers are their opposite: people who try to fix things\, who want to bring people together and try to build consensus. At the beginning of the pandemic\, weavers seemed to be winning. Five years later\, as Canada heads towards a pivotal election\, that’s no longer the case. Across the border\, a ripper is remaking the American government. And for the first time in its history\, Canada has its own ripper poised to assume power. \nPierre Poilievre has enjoyed most of the advantages of the mainstream Canadian middle class. Yet he’s long been the angriest man on the political stage. In Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre\, bestselling author Mark Bourrie\, winner of the Charles Taylor Prize\, charts Poilievre’s rise through the political system\, from teenage volunteer to outspoken Opposition leader known for cutting soundbites and theatrics. Bourrie shows how we arrived at this divisive moment in our history\, one in which rippers are poised to capitalize on conflict. He shows how Poilievre and this new style of politics have gained so much ground—and warns of what it will cost us if they succeed. \nABOUT MARK BOURRIE \nMark Bourrie is an Ottawa-based author\, lawyer\, and journalist. He holds a master’s in journalism from Carleton University and a PhD in history from the University of Ottawa. In 2017\, he was awarded a Juris Doctor degree and was called to the bar in 2018. He has won numerous awards for his journalism\, including a National Magazine Award\, and received the RBC Charles Taylor Prize in 2020 for his book Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson. His most recent books include Big Men Fear Me: The Fast Life and Quick Death of Canada’s Most Powerful Media Mogul\, and the national bestseller Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brébeuf and the Destruction of Huronia.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/ripper-ottawa-launch/
LOCATION:St. John the Evangelist\, 154 Somerset Street West\, Ottawa\, ON\, K2P 0H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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SUMMARY:Luke Hathaway at Steeple Green Books
DESCRIPTION:Join poet Luke Hathaway for a reading at Steeple Green Books! Luke\, author of several collections including The Affirmations and Years\, Months\, and Days (recently released in its 2nd edition)\, will be reading from his works and books will be available for sale and signing. \nThe event will take place on Sunday\, April 13 at 3PM. \nGrab a copy of The Affirmations here and Years\, Months\, and Days here! \nABOUT YEARS\, MONTHS\, AND DAYS \nA NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF 2018 \nA transfiguration of Mennonite hymns into heartbreaking lyric poems\, Years\, Months\, and Days is a moving meditation on the possibility of translation. Bridging secular spirituality and holy reverence with the commonalities of life\, death\, love\, and hope\, Luke Hathaway explores the connection between hymn and poem. The sparse and tender phrasing of Years\, Months\, and Days is an offering of words to music\, made in the spirit of a shared love—for life\, for a particular landscape and its rhythms—that animates poem and prayer alike. \nABOUT THE AFFIRMATIONS \nShortlisted for the 2023 J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award • Winner of the 2021 Confederation Poets Prize • One of The Times’ Best Poetry Books of 2022 • A CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022 • Nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award for Poetry \nThe mystics who coined the phrase ‘the way of affirmation’ understood the apocalyptic nature of the word yes\, the way it can lead out of one life and into another. Moving among the languages of Christian conversion\, Classical metamorphosis\, seasonal transformation\, and gender transition\, Luke Hathaway tells the story of the love that rewired his being\, asking each of us to experience the transfiguration that can follow upon saying yes—with all one’s heart\, with all one’s soul\, with all one’s mind\, with all one’s strength … and with all one’s body\, too. \nABOUT LUKE HATHAWAY \nLuke Hathaway is an internationally-acclaimed poet\, lyricist/librettist\, and theatre-maker. Of his 2022 book The Affirmations\, Times critic Graeme Richardson writes: “Mainstream poetry counts as non-conformist compared with popular culture\, but it nevertheless develops its own conformities . . . Luke Hathaway\, a Canadian trans poet\, offers . . . a point of difference. Influenced by John Donne and George Herbert\, and above all by T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets\, Hathaway constructs small marvels of what one poem here calls ‘loving jugglery’: a feast of transformations.” Hathaway is a co-creator of the immersive opera Eurydice Fragments (re:naissance opera\, 2024)\, the song-cycle The Sign of Jonas (Milltown Records\, 2024)\, and many other performance works. He teaches English and creative writing at Saint Mary’s University.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/luke-hathaway-at-steeple-green-books/
LOCATION:Steeple Green Books\, 26 East Petpeswick Rd.\, Musquodoboit Harbour\, NS\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:UNMET: stephanie roberts at the Third Thursday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:stephanie roberts\, author of the poetry collection UNMET\, will be a reader for Cobourg’s Third Thursday Reading Series! stephanie will be joined by Nathanael Jones and Laila Malik for this reading series hosted by James Pickersgill. \nThe event will take place in the Northumberland Room at the Best Western Cobourg Inn on Thursday\, April 17 at 7:30PM. Admission is PWYC (Pay What You Can). \nMore details here. \nOrder UNMET here! \nABOUT UNMET \nThis is what comes of taking dreams / off the horizon. It is the sun / or nothing else\, you would scream / if you weren’t caught up in the chorus. \nLeaning deliberately on the imagined while scrutinizing reality and hoping for the as-yet-unseen\, UNMET explores frustration\, justice\, and thwarted rescue from a perspective that is Black-Latinx\, Canadian\, immigrant\, and female. Drawing on a wide range of poetics\, from Wallace Stevens to Diane Seuss\, roberts’s musically-driven narrative surrealism confronts such timely issues as police brutality\, respectability politics\, intimate partner violence\, and ecological crisis\, and considers the might-have-been alongside the what-could-be\, negotiating with the past without losing hope for the future. \nABOUT STEPHANIE ROBERTS \nstephanie roberts is the author of rushes from the river disappointment\, a Quebec Writers’ Federation finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry\, the winner of The Sixty-Four: Best Poets of 2018\, a recipient of the Sage Hill Writing award for Black Excellence\, and a Canada Council of the Arts grantee. Her work has been critically praised and featured in well over one hundred periodicals and anthologies\, in print and online\, throughout Canada\, the US\, and Europe. She is a citizen of Canada\, Panama\, and the US\, and has lived most of her life in Quebec.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/unmet-stephanie-roberts-at-the-third-thursday-reading-series/
LOCATION:Best Western Cobourg Inn\, 930 Burnham St\, Cobourg\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:Ripper: Almonte Book Signing and Meet & Greet
DESCRIPTION:Come out and meet Mark Bourrie\, the author of Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre! Mark will be signing copies of the new political biography at Almonte’s Mill Street Books on Saturday\, April 19 at 7PM. \nCheck out Ripper here! \nABOUT RIPPER \nAs Canada heads towards a pivotal election\, bestselling author Mark Bourrie charts the rise of Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre and considers the history and potential cost of the politics of division. \nSix weeks into the Covid pandemic\, New York Times columnist David Brooks identified two types of Western politicians: rippers and weavers. Rippers\, whether on the right or the left\, see politics as war. They don’t care about the destruction that’s caused as they fight for power. Weavers are their opposite: people who try to fix things\, who want to bring people together and try to build consensus. At the beginning of the pandemic\, weavers seemed to be winning. Five years later\, as Canada heads towards a pivotal election\, that’s no longer the case. Across the border\, a ripper is remaking the American government. And for the first time in its history\, Canada has its own ripper poised to assume power. \nPierre Poilievre has enjoyed most of the advantages of the mainstream Canadian middle class. Yet he’s long been the angriest man on the political stage. In Ripper: The Making of Pierre Poilievre\, bestselling author Mark Bourrie\, winner of the Charles Taylor Prize\, charts Poilievre’s rise through the political system\, from teenage volunteer to outspoken Opposition leader known for cutting soundbites and theatrics. Bourrie shows how we arrived at this divisive moment in our history\, one in which rippers are poised to capitalize on conflict. He shows how Poilievre and this new style of politics have gained so much ground—and warns of what it will cost us if they succeed. \nABOUT MARK BOURRIE \nMark Bourrie is an Ottawa-based author\, lawyer\, and journalist. He holds a master’s in journalism from Carleton University and a PhD in history from the University of Ottawa. In 2017\, he was awarded a Juris Doctor degree and was called to the bar in 2018. He has won numerous awards for his journalism\, including a National Magazine Award\, and received the RBC Charles Taylor Prize in 2020 for his book Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson. His most recent books include Big Men Fear Me: The Fast Life and Quick Death of Canada’s Most Powerful Media Mogul\, and the national bestseller Crosses in the Sky: Jean de Brébeuf and the Destruction of Huronia.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/ripper-ottawa-launch-2/
LOCATION:Mill Street Books\, 52 Mill St\, Almonte\, ON\, K0A 1A0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Lisa Alward at the Frye Festival
DESCRIPTION:Come on out to this year’s Frye Festival\, where Lisa Alward\, author of Cocktail\, will be doing a Flash Frye reading of the collection for the panel ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ The panel\, which features books that wrestle with bodily autonomy and the impossible expectations that come with being a woman\, will be moderated by Alisa Arsenault and features a discussion between Shashi Bhat and Siobhan Gallagher. \nThe event will take place at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre on Sunday\, April 27 at 1PM. \nTickets and more details here. \nGrab Cocktail here! \nABOUT COCKTAIL \nWinner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award • Longlisted for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction • Winner of the New Brunswick 2023 Mrs. Dunster’s Award for Fiction • One of the Globe and Mail’s “Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall” • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 • A Miramichi Reader Best Book of 2023 • A Tyee Best Book of 2023 \nA girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest\, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he’s made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate\, immersive stories explore life’s watershed moments\, in which seemingly insignificant details—a pot of hyacinths\, a freshly painted yellow wall—and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since\, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves. \nABOUT LISA ALWARD \nLisa Alward’s short fiction has appeared in The Journey Prize and twice in Best Canadian Stories. She has won the Fiddlehead Prize as well as the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award\, has been a finalist for The Malahat Review’s Open Season Award\, an honourable mention in the Peter Hinchcliffe Award\, and been featured on numerous other long lists\, including for the CBC Story Prize and Prism International’s Jacob Zilber Prize (three times). She was born and grew up in Halifax and completed an English degree at the University of Toronto and an MA at Queen Mary College in London\, England. In the eighties and early nineties\, she worked in book publishing in Toronto\, before moving with her young family to Vancouver and ultimately to Fredericton\, New Brunswick\, where at fifty she began to write stories. Cocktail (Biblioasis)\, which received a starred review in Kirkus Reviews\, is her debut collection.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/lisa-alward-at-the-frye-festival/
LOCATION:Aberdeen Cultural Centre\, 140 rue Botsford\, Moncton\, NB\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Reading
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SUMMARY:Best Canadian Poetry 2025: Toronto Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the end of National Poetry Month to celebrate Best Canadian Poetry 2025! This reading will feature a number of poets from the anthology\, including Cassidy McFadzean\, Molly Peacock\, Shannon Quinn\, Ronna Bloom\, Pauline Peters\, and Fareh Malik\, and will be hosted by longtime series editor Anita Lahey. Books will be available for sale and signing from Queen Books. \nThe event will take place on Tuesday\, April 29 at 6:30PM. \nGrab a copy of Best Canadian Poetry 2025 here! \nCheck out the full series\, with Essays and Stories\, here! \nABOUT BEST CANADIAN POETRY 2025 \nSelected by editor Aislinn Hunter\, the 2025 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadian poetry writing published in 2023. \nFeaturing: \nHollie Adams • George Amabile • Erin Bedford • Billy-Ray Belcourt • Bertrand Bickersteth • Elisabeth Blair • Ronna Bloom • Alison Braid-Fernandez • Robert Bringhurst • Emily Cann • Anne Carson • Molly Cross-Blanchard • Lorna Crozier • Kayla Czaga • Evelyna Ekoko-Kay • Kate Genevieve • Susan Gillis • Sue Goyette • Catherine Graham • Henry Heavyshield • Gerald Hill • Alexander Hollenberg • Kim June Johnson • Eve Joseph • Evelyn Lau • Y. S. Lee • D. A. Lockhart • Fareh Malik • David Martin • Domenica Martinello • Cassidy McFadzean • Carmelita McGrath • Erín Moure • Tolu Oloruntoba • Catherine Owen • Molly Peacock • Miranda Pearson • Pauline Peters • Amanda Proctor • Shannon Quinn • Armand Garnet Ruffo • Anne Simpson • Carolyn Smart • Karen Solie • Catherine St. Denis • Owen Torrey • Michael Trussler • Sara Truuvert • Rob Winger • Jaeyun Yoo
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/best-canadian-poetry-2025-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:Queen Books\, 914 Queen St E\, Toronto\, ON\, M4M 1J5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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SUMMARY:On Oil: Don Gillmor at Words Festival
DESCRIPTION:Join Don Gillmor as he speaks about his new book On Oil\, a searching reconsideration of our long\, complex\, tortured relationship with oil\, in this virtual event with the Words Festival. Don will be in conversation with host and Words Director Josh Lambier. \nThis free virtual event will take place on Tuesday\, April 29 at 7pm EST over Zoom. \nMore details and event link here. \nGrab On Oil here! \nABOUT ON OIL \nA journalist\, and former roughneck\, considers our long\, complex\, tortured relationship with oil. \nOil has dominated our lives for the last century. It has given us warmth\, progress\, and life-threatening pollution. It has been a gift and is now a threat. It has started wars\, ended wars\, and infiltrated governments—in some cases\, effectively become the government. And now oil’s enduring mythology is facing a messy\, complicated twilight. \nIn On Oil\, Don Gillmor\, who worked as a roughneck on oil rigs during the seventies oil boom in Alberta\, looks at how the industry has changed over the decades and illustrates the ways our dependence on oil has led to regulatory capture\, in Canada and elsewhere\, and contributed to armed conflict and war across the world. Gillmor documents the myriad ways that oil companies have misdirected environmental action and misinformed the public about climate concerns and illuminates where we went wrong—and how we might yet change course. \nABOUT DON GILLMOR \nDon Gillmor is the author of To the River\, which won the Governor General’s Award for nonfiction. He is the author of three novels\, Long Change\, Mount Pleasant\, and Kanata\, a two-volume history of Canada\, Canada: A People’s History\, and nine books for children\, two of which were nominated for the Governor General’s Award. He was a senior editor at The Walrus\, and his journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone\, GQ\, The Walrus\, Saturday Night\, Toronto Life\, the Globe and Mail\, and the Toronto Star. He has won twelve National Magazine Awards and numerous other honours. He lives in Toronto.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/on-oil-don-gillmor-wordsfest/
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