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SUMMARY:Beaconsfield Bookworms: Rita Pomade author visit
DESCRIPTION:The Beaconsfield Library’s monthly book club will be discussing Seeker: A Sea Odyssey by Rita Pomade. \nThe author will be present at this special book club meeting to discuss her book and answer questions. \nNewcomers welcome.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/beaconsfield-bookworms-rita-pomade-author-visit/
LOCATION:Beaconsfield Library\, 303 Beaconsfield Boulevard\, Beaconsfield\, Quebec\, H9W 4A7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events
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SUMMARY:"Wonder and Kindness": Poetry Matters
DESCRIPTION:Please join Poetry Matters for a reading with Montreal poets Stephanie Bolster and Susan Elmslie\, featuring recent work. \nSusan Elmslie’s second collection is Museum of Kindness (2017)\, shortlisted for the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. Her first trade collection\, I\, Nadja\, and Other Poems (2006) won the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize\, the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Memorial Award and a ReLit Award. Her poems have also appeared in several Canadian journals\, anthologies\, and in a prize-winning chapbook\, When Your Body Takes to Trembling (Cranberry Tree\, 1996). Elmslie teaches at Dawson College in Montreal. \nStephanie Bolster’s White Stone: The Alice Poems won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award in 1998\, and Two Bowls of Milk (1999) received the Archibald Lampman Award. A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth (2012)\, was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Work from Long Exposure\, her manuscript-in-progress\, was a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012. Bolster teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montreal. \nFor further information on Poetry Matters\, please see https://www.mcgill.ca/poetrymatters/
URL:https://qwf.org/event/wonder-and-kindness-poetry-matters/
LOCATION:Atwater Library and Computer Centre\, 1200 Atwater Avenue\, Westmount\, Quebec\, H3Z 1X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Community Events,Performance
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SUMMARY:Gay Reads Book Club: Little Fish by Casey Plett
DESCRIPTION:Join the Gay Reads book club to discuss classic and contemporary literature by LGBTQ2IA+ authors. We’ll read across genres to uncover queer sensibilities\, alternative canons\, and exciting new voices. The club meets every two months at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly with host Kathleen Fraser\, and it is open to all. \nAt our inaugural meeting on September 24\, at 7 PM\, we’ll discuss Casey Plett’s Lambda-winning debut novel\, Little Fish. \n**We offer a 20% discount on Little Fish by Casey Plett from now until the meeting date.** \nBy purchasing your book at Librairie Drawn & Quarterly you help support free events like this one\, independent publishing and retailing\, our neighborhood\, and authors both local and from around the world who depend on independent bookstores for their livelihood. You also get to take advantage of a great discount! Your support is appreciated. \nLITTLE FISH:\nIt’s the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer\, a thirty-year-old trans woman\, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling secret: Wendy’s Opa (grandfather) — a devout Mennonite farmer — might have been transgender himself. At first she dismisses this revelation\, but as Wendy’s life grows increasingly volatile\, she finds herself aching for the lost pieces of her Opa’s truth. Can Wendy unravel the mystery of her grandfather’s world and reckon with the culture that both shaped and rejected her? She’s determined to try. \nAlternately warm-hearted and dark-spirited\, desperate and mirthful\, Little Fish explores the winter of discontent in the life of one transgender woman as her past and future become irrevocably entwined.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/gay-reads-book-club-little-fish-by-casey-plett/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Club
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