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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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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Vancouvered Out by Norman Nawrocki
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 20\, 2024\, 4:00 pm ET\n\n\n\nAcclaimed Montreal author Norman Nawrocki launches his exciting and timely new novella\, Vancouvered Out\, Saturday April 20\, 2024 at the Milton-Parc Community Library\, 3516 ave du Parc\, Montreal\, H2X 2H7. The 4pm launch is free.  \n\n\n\nVancouvered Out (Nawrocki’s 17th book) is a dramatic and timely story about roots\, gentrification\, housing rights\, community and the fight for a city. Although the story is set in Vancouver\, the issues it raises concern Montrealers also. We see the city through the eyes of Steve\, a poor and unemployed labourer. Demons and drug dealers drove him out of town ten years earlier in 2004. Now he’s back seeking a new life and answers to the mysterious death of his teen daughter. But in this west coast paradise he once called home\, he feels strangely out-of- place. As the love of family and friends stokes his own smouldering defiance of the new soul- destroying urban order\, he aches for justice and a livable city for all. \n\n\n\n\nVisit Facebook Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch Book Trailer
URL:https://qwf.org/event/book-launch-vancouvered-out-by-norman-nawrocki/
LOCATION:Milton Parc Community Library\, 3518 avenue du Parc\, Montreal\, Quebec\, Canada
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