Book Launch—On Occasion: Poems for the People
A book launch on the occasion of On Occasion: Poems for the People’s official release!
Join editor Sina Queyras at 7 PM on Tuesday, May 12, on the pub day of On Occasion, at Librairie De Stiil Bookstore (351 Duluth Ave. E., Montreal). Queyras will be joined by Misha Solomon, Shelagh Rowan-Legg, Chanel Sutherland, Lena Palacios, Valerie Free, Constantina Gicopoulous, Ethel Meilleur, and Paisley Conrad reading Angie Conrad. A lineup not to miss.
About the Book
A twenty-first-century reconsideration of the occasional poem by contemporary writers.
On Occasion is a collection rooted in the tradition of the poem as an act of love, an act of protest, an act of visionary incantation, of remembrance, of a call to arms, and a much-needed balm.
The traditional ‘occasional poem’ has a bad rap: a tedious rhyming poem at a wedding or a dreary verse at a funeral. This is not that. These are poems for a tumultuous and complicated world, for occasions that may be celebrations or mournings, or anything in between; from life cycles, to earth cycles, to social cycles, editor Sina Queyras brings together a collection of poetry that speaks to moments of upheaval, revolution, and challenge. Poetry that people can turn to.
On Occasion contains over a hundred poems for different occasions, including writing by Suzanne Buffam, Heather Christle, CAConrad, Sue Goyette, Canisia Lubrin, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, Lisa Robertson, Sue Sinclair, and A. E. Stallings.