November 20 7:00 pm
P O E T R Y N I T E 121
Kafein, 1429A Bishop St. | Full event info here.
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November 22 7:00 pm
Mile End Poets’ Festival | ‘Langues liées // Linked Tongues’
A collaborative multilingual event showcasing poetry in English, Arabic, Korean, Creole, Spanish, French, Innu-aimun, Italian, Occitan, Persian, Portuguese, and Wolof…on one stage!
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November 23 8:00 pm
Mile End Poets’ Festival | Moving Pictures and Borders
The Quebec premiere of ‘Moving Pictures and Borders’ – an astounding collaborative digital project that has seen poets and film-makers from Quebec, England, South Africa, Croatia, Trinidad & Tobago, and Bangladesh work together in 2018 across artform and language to produce six original filmpoems.
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November 24 1:00 pm
QWF & AELEQ Book Fair | Tell It Slant: Memoir at an Angle
Will Aitken, Antigone Undone
Erín Moure, Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots
Lindsay Nixon, nîtisânak
Moderated by Jacob Wren, Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-Art
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November 24 7:00 pm
Triny Finlay and Lucas Crawford
Argo Bookshop, 1915 St-Catherine St. W. | More event info here.
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November 24 9:00 pm
Mile End Poets’ Festival | Deep Curation: A Poetry Reading
Four poets perform an interwoven, responsive reading, answering and echoing one another’s work.
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November 24 10:00 pm
Mile End Poets’ Festival | Poésie Flamenco
Poésie Flamenco is a multilingual poetry dancing! The performance will take you on a journey into the poetry of flamenco and — with surprise guest Montreal poets — a journey into the flamenco of poetry.
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November 25 1:00 pm
QWF & AELEQ Book Fair | Stories Speak: Writers on Fiction
Licia Canton, The Pink House and Other Stories
Paige Cooper, Zolitude
Kenneth Radu, Net Worth
Moderated by H. Nigel Thomas, Fate’s Instruments
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November 25 3:00 pm
QWF & AELEQ Book Fair | Perforating the Screen of Language: Poets Out Loud
Klara du Plessis, Ekke
Susan Elmslie, Museum of Kindness
John Emil Vincent, Excitement Tax
Moderated by Harold Hoefle, The Night Chorus
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November 25 9:00 pm
Mile End Poets’ Festival | Words & Music Show, with David Bateman, Kaie Kellough, Isaac Bond, Deanna Radford & music by Creatures of the Ice Age
The final and glorious event of Mile End Poets’ Festival 2018!
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November 27 5:30 pm
Performance | Harmony Holiday
Considering themes of absence, minor histories, and the black radical tradition as introduced in Blues Klair and the research methods they provoke, Los Angeles-based poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday has been invited to present a new performance working with audio and video archives that extend from, surround and inform her practice.
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November 29 7:00 pm
Kasia van Schaik launches Sea Burial Laws According to Country
Join for the launch of Kasia van Schaik’s Sea Burial Laws According to Country (Desert Pets Press), a miniature collection of interconnected stories, poems, and burial instructions. Kasia will be joined by special guests and Montreal poets, Tess Liem and Sarah Burgoyne.
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November 30 7:00 pm
Book*hug Double Launch: Gwen Benaway and Hana Shafi
The Montreal launch of Gwen Benaway’s Holy Wild and Hana Shafi’s It Begins With the Body, with guest readers Lindsay Nixon, Marcela Huerta, and Eli Tareq Lynch.
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