Solo Collab

Klara du Plessis, Rachel McCrum, Katherine McLeod & Deanna Radford. Poetry & Dance
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
Doors: 19h30, show: 20h00
Casa Del Popolo, 4873 boul St-Laurent, Montréal
Advance tickets available. $8 +taxes & fees: https://www.venuepilot.co/events/91259/orders/new#/
$10 at the door

KLARA DU PLESSIS is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar, literary curator, and poet. Her most recent publications include G, translingual poetry composed in collaboration with Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, and I’mpossible collab, a collection of literary essays. Post-mortem of the event is forthcoming fall 2024 from Palimpsest Press.

RACHEL MCCRUM is a poet, performer, editor, and curator. Originally from Northern Ireland, she lived in Edinburgh, Scotland between 2010 and 2016, where she was the first BBC Scotland Poet in Residence and recipient of a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. Her debut collection The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate was translated by Jonathan Lamy and published in a bilingual edition with Mémoire d’encrier in Fall 2020, and was a finalist for the Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole from the Quebec Writers’ Federation in 2022. She is currently working on a new spoken word show on stepmothers. Rachel is the vocalist for noise-poetry group Pigs&Wolves.

KATHERINE MCLEOD (she/her) is a scholar and dancer. She publishes research on feminist listening to literary audio, and most recently she has co-edited with Jason Camlot the special triple-issue of English Studies in Canada, “New Sonic Approaches in Literary Studies.” She teaches in the Department of English at Concordia, she curates Where Poets Read, and she produces the monthly series ShortCuts for The SpokenWeb Podcast.

In 2023, DEANNA RADFORD’s poetry-sound group Cloud Circuit recorded its first full-length album at Hotel2Tango in Montréal. Following that, they took on the role of Ambassadors of the Embassy of Utopia as part of the Tartu International Literary Festival Prima Vista in Estonia. She is also a co-founder of improvisational group, The Tuned Air Trio, with vocalist Ayelet Rose Gottlieb and multiinstrumentalist Eric Lewis. Deanna’s poetry has appeared in The Belfield Literary Review, The Capilano Review, Radio, Occulto, and elswhere.

ACCESSIBILITY: Casa Del Popolo is located on ground level. There are ramps on both the venue and bar front entrances for wheelchair accessibility. Washrooms are gender neutral and one is wheelchair accessible.