Triple Poetry Launch

Tuesday, November 26, 2024
7:00 pm ET

Join us for the launch of three new poetry collections; Manahil Bandukwala’s Heliotropia, A-E Best’s Bad Weather Mammals, and Jake Byrne’s DADDY! There will be readings and time to discuss the poets’ work and ask question, as well as get copies signed. This event is free, but space is limited, so please RSVP on TicketSource.

About the Poets

Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist based in Ottawa and Mississauga, Ontario. She is the author of Heliotropia (Brick Books, 2024) and MONUMENT (Brick Books, 2022), which was shortlisted for the 2023 Gerald Lampert Award, and was selected as a Writer’s Trust of Canada Rising Star in 2023. See her work at www.manahilbandukwala.com

A-E Best is a disabled poet and essayist from Kingston. Her work can be found in the Capilano Review, New Welsh Review, CV2, Ambit Magazine, Mslexia, and Chatelaine. Her work was longlisted for the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Bad Weather Mammals, is now available from ECW Press. Find A-E on Instagram as @capitatelikeahead or her website https://ashleyelizabethbest.com/

Jake Byrne is the author of Celebrate Pride with Lockheed Martin (Wolsak & Wynn, 2023) and DADDY (Brick Books, 2024). In 2019, they won CV2‘s Foster Prize for poetry. They live in Toronto/tka:ronto.