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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Missed Connections with Tall Girls by Gwen Aube
DESCRIPTION:TRAIN HOPPING! PILL POPPING! FUR WEARING! SINK PISSING! TRANS PUNK ODES! \nJoin Montreal poet Gwen Aube at Brasserie Beaubien for the launch of her debut collection\, Missed Connections with Tall Girls\, featuring readings by Tara McGowan-Ross\, Mona Gendron (of Pubertywell)\, and Rebecca Lawrence-Lynch.  \nDoors at 7:30\, Readings around 8\, Party til late.\nCopies will be available for purchase and signing. \nMore on the book:\nTweaking working-class colloquialisms into new forms of elegy and song\, Gwen Aube’s hilarious and uncompromising poems chronicle a precarious\, debaucherous carnival of trailer-trash divas and Discord autistcs\, living and delighting in survival at the edges of technocapital. Missed Connections with Tall Girls establishes Aube as a brash and unstoppable singular voice for a monstrous new world. \n“Bold and brazen and full of heart and downright hilarious at times. It rolls like a memory\, harkening the greats of street poetry. Gwen is my favourite kind of poet\, the kind with clear eyes that truly see other humans\, renders them beautiful.”\n—katherena vermette\, author of procession \n“WOW! Gwen Aube makes a speedway for poems\, racing up your neck and into the mouth of your surprised\, opening face! You think you know what’s coming next? NO! HAHA! There is something incredible waiting for you here.”\n—CA Conrad\, author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return \n“Evokes  a city of sound and shifting spaces. Here\, tears “glonk” on the  sidewalk\, mattresses are sometimes a chalice\, sometimes a bowl\,  sometimes a god\, and one’s own body does not always provide a home.  Canny\, understated\, moving\, seeking a passageway for trans lives and  lives in transition\, the poet’s voice creates a haunting stillness in  the noise.”\n—PEN Canada New Voices jury citation \nGwen Aube is a working class writer living in Montreal\, Quebec. She is a 2026 Al Purdy A-Frame Artist-In-Residence & 2025 AiR with the Ontario Heritage Council. She was a finalist for the 2025 PEN Canada New Voices Award\, as well as a Kevin Killian Scholarship recipient for the Jack Kerouac School. Her chapbook pulp necrosis was published by above/ground press.
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LOCATION:Brasserie Beaubien\, 73 rue Beaubien Est\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
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