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SUMMARY:Vancouver Double Launch: DECADENCE and WHAT ENDURES
DESCRIPTION:Join the fine folks at Upstart & Crow for the launch party of two Biblioasis books: Decadence by Richard Kelly Kemick and What Endures by Pauline Holdstock! This will be a night of joyful readings and conversation between the two authors. Books will be on hand for sale and signing. \nThis event is free\, but capacity is limited\, so please RSVP here! \nGet Decadence here! \nGet What Endures here! \nABOUT DECADENCE \n“The genre of memoir is bullshit (as I humbly posit). No one actually lives like they are moving along some grand Freytag’s triangle. Rather\, we live within isolated instances\, specific struggles and victories\, which\, when compiled\, form a narrative.”—Richard Kelly Kemick \nIn Decadence\, Richard Kelly Kemick’s “accidental memoir of a sort\,” the author ranges widely through his myriad preoccupations and obsessions—volleyball\, municipal landfills\, dogs\, high school plays\, Christmas villages\, love—out of which the shape of a unique sensibility is revealed. Reminiscent of the three Davids—Rakoff\, Sedaris\, and Wallace—these essays accrete into a portrait of a man trying to make sense of a world in which there are no goddamn rules; and yet one in which every action has sometimes profound consequences. A book of intelligence and care and kindness and humour and yearning and the occasional epiphany\, Decadence gathers up from the odds and ends of living what makes a modern life—quiet and desperate as it may at times be—worth celebrating. \nABOUT RICHARD KELLY KEMICK \nRichard Kelly Kemick is an award-winning poet\, journalist\, and fiction writer. His debut collection of short stories\, Hello\, Horse\, was published by Biblioasis in 2024. He is also the author of I Am Herod (available on audiobook)\, the poetry collection Caribou Run\, and the stage play Amor De Cosmos: A Delusional Musical. Richard’s limited series podcast\, Natural Life\, is an intimate and unexpectedly honest documentary on his cousin\, who is serving a life sentence without parole in Michigan. \nABOUT WHAT ENDURES  \n“Funny and serious\, with a subtle power that accumulates like a shoplifter adding coat upon coat.”—Mark Anthony Jarman \nThe stories in What Endures range through and respond to a clickbait world evolving at terrifying speed\, revealing the absurd and ridiculous nature of everyday life. What does it mean to endure in a world starving for truth and connection\, what makes life worth living\, what can be discovered and preserved from the onrush of experience—vicarious and actual—that comes at us? With bracing wit\, Pauline Holdstock’s stories move back and forth through time and circumstance to unpack what it is that saves us from despair\, each of them pointing in their own magical way to that one\, fragile thing that has the power to endure and to live on in others. \nABOUT PAULINE HOLDSTOCK \nPauline Holdstock is an internationally published novelist\, short fiction writer\, and essayist. Her novels have been shortlisted for a number of awards\, among them the Best First Novel Award\, the Giller Prize\, and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Her novel Beyond Measure was the winner of the BC Book Prizes Ethel Wilson Award for Fiction. Her novels The Hunter and the Wild Girl and Confessions With Keith have each been awarded the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. \n 
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/vancouver-double-launch-decadence-and-what-endures/
LOCATION:Upstart & Crow\, 1387 Railspur Alley\, Granville Island
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Discussion,Reading
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SUMMARY:Garth Martens: Watershed Press Cumberland Readings
DESCRIPTION:Come on out for a summer poetry reading in Cumberland\, where Garth Martens will be reading from his latest poetry collection\, Who Else in the Dark Headed There. He’ll be joined by fellow writer Robert Bringhurst who will launch his book Buying the Ghosts a Drink. \nMore details here! \nGrab 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/garth-martens-watershed-press-cumberland-readings/
LOCATION:Masonic Lodge\, 2687 Dunsmuir Ave\, Cumberland\, BC\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Don Gillmor: Heliconian Club Literary Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:Don Gillmor will be a featured author at the Heliconian Club’s Literary Lecture Series! The event will take place on Tuesday\, September 8 at 7:30PM. Books will be available for sale and signing by Ben McNally. \nMore details TK.  \nGrab Cherry Beach here! \nCheck out Don Gillmor’s previous books here. \nABOUT CHERRY BEACH \n“This is one of the best Canadian crime novels of this or any year . . . Toronto now takes its place with Los Angeles\, New York\, and Boston as a character in the action and it’s great.”—Margaret Cannon\, Globe and Mail \nA brutal murder exposes secret real estate deals\, a corrupt police force\, and the dark heart of a city simmering with unrest. \nWhen two girls are found murdered in a rundown Toronto high-rise\, Jamieson Abel and his partner are first on the scene. Abel is a law school dropout turned police detective chronically at odds with his colleagues and perpetually on the brink of being terminated\, and Davis is the department’s only female officer of colour. Both understand their being partnered as a form of banishment\, but when the details of the murder go public at the start of an excruciatingly hot summer\, they find themselves thrust into the centre of a front page investigation that will bring to a head the city’s long history of shady real estate deals and racist disenfranchisement. \nIntricately plotted and brilliantly layered\, Cherry Beach is a gripping literary crime novel that examines class\, race\, and corruption in the most multicultural city in the world. \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 five novels\, Cherry Beach\, Breaking and Entering\, 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\, 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/don-gillmor-heliconian-club-literary-lecture-series/
LOCATION:Heliconian Club\, 35 Hazelton Ave\, Toronto\, ON\, M5R 2E3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Discussion,Reading,Reading Series
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SUMMARY:Garth Martens at WORD Vancouver
DESCRIPTION:Poet Garth Martens (Who Else in the Dark Headed There) will be at WORD Vancouver festival for the panel “The Art of Transformation.” Garth will be joined in conversation by Eve Joseph and Billeh Nickerson\, moderated by Renée Sarojini Saklikar\, as they each travel through very different landscapes: a mother’s disappearance\, the haunted rooms of childhood\, and a hospital stay that prompts reflections on mortality\, luck\, and survival. Through inventive and deeply attentive uses of language\, each writer transforms lived experience into something unexpected\, illuminating how memory reshapes the past\, how imagination unsettles the ordinary\, and how poetry can help us navigate uncertainty and change. Through loss\, humour\, wonder\, and resilience\, these poets reveal what endures and what becomes possible in the aftermath of transformation. \nThe event will take place on Saturday\, September 19 at 11AM\, at the Poetry Tent in UBC Robson Square. \nMore details here. \nGet 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/garth-martens-at-word-vancouver/
LOCATION:UBC Robson Square\, 800 Robson Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6Z 3B7\, Canada
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