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SUMMARY:Book Launch: National Animal by Derek Webster
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 18\, 2024\, 7:00 pm EDT\n\n\n\nLibrairie De Stiil and Véhicule Press invite you to the launch of Derek Webster’s new collection of poetry\, National Animal. The event will start at 7 p.m. and feature readings and conversation\, and is free and open to all. Refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNational Animal\, Derek Webster’s second book of poetry\, inhabits a wider public space than his acclaimed debut Mockingbird. In poems that extend beyond the biographical toward the political\, Webster’s quiet\, sharp-eyed narrator—a man “tripping / my way forward\, trying to lead my own life”—watches history being erased in favour of more socially palatable ideas and comforting self-portraits. Uncompromising and substantial\, National Animal explores our “civic moment” where “birds sing oblivion / estranged from all things\,” and meditates\, in a final image-rich sequence\, on our place in a science-based cosmos. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDerek Webster’s Mockingbird (2015) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poems in Canada. He received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis\, where he studied with Carl Phillips\, and was the founding editor of Maisonneuve magazine. He lives in Montreal and Toronto.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-national-animal-by-derek-webster/
LOCATION:De Stiil Booksellers\, 351 Avenue Duluth\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2W1J3\, Canada
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