Where poets read

Where readings are happening in Montreal – and, in these virtual times, sometimes beyond.

October 14 7:00 pm

Book Launch: Alexie Morin’s Open Your Heart and Cora Siré’s Fear the Mirror (online)

Launch of OPEN YOUR HEART by Alexie Morin, translated by Aimee Wall and FEAR THE MIRROR by Cora Siré. The event will feature readings, conversation, and book give-aways!

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October 21 7:00 pm

Book Launch – Helen Chau Bradley’s Personal Attention Roleplay (Metonymy Press)

Helen Chau Bradley, with special guests David Bradford, River Halen Guri, and Sruti Islam.

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October 22 5:00 pm

Montréal Launch: Nicole Raziya Fong’s “OЯACULE” and Sarah Burgoyne’s “Because the Sun” – Parc Drolet-Rachel

Launch of Nicole Raziya Fong’s “OЯACULE” (Talonbooks, 2021) with Sarah Burgoyne’s “Because the Sun” (Coach House Books, 2021).

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October 22 8:00 pm

Palimpsest Press Fall Launch, online 6pm MST / 8pm EST

More info here!

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October 22 8:00 pm

Online launch, 8pm EST – David Bradford, with guests Anahita Jamali Rad and Cecily Nicholson

Launch of David Bradford’s Dream of No One but Myself (Brick Books) on Zoom, with special guests Anahita Jamali Rad, author of still (Talonbooks, 2021) & Cecily Nicholson, author of Wayside Sang (Talonbooks, 2018).

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November 9 7:00 pm

BOOK LAUNCH: The Face of the Quartzes, 7pm ET, online

Online launch of The Face of the Quartzes by Chus Pato, translated by Erín Moure.

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November 26 4:00 pm

A Belly Full of Vlarf at 4th SPACE, online and in person, 4pm ET

Readings by Jason Camlot and John Emil Vincent. Hosted by Katherine McLeod.

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February 10 7:00 pm

The Blasted Tree, virtual reading and chapbook launch, 7pm MT

Register here!

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February 24 6:00 pm

Dimitri Nasrallah’s HOTLINE launch, featuring Nantali Indongo & Baharan Baniahmadi

Bar le Ritz PDB (179 rue Jean-Talon O), doors 6pm / starts at 7pm

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April 3 1:00 pm

Gap Riot Press Season Eight Launch, online

Full info here!

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April 13 8:00 pm

Talonbooks 2022 Spring Launch, 8pm PT (11pm ET)

If in Vancouver, join Talonbooks for their first live launch in two years! Or, go to the Talonbooks YouTube Channel or Facebook Page for the Livestream.

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May 12 8:30 pm

Aaron Kreuter and Kasia Van Shaik at Notre Dame Des Quilles

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June 16 6:00 pm

BOOK LAUNCH / LANCEMENT : “Sensorial, A Poetry Collection,” by Carolyne Van Der Meer

A celebration of Carolyne Van Der Meer’s new collection, Sensorial.

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June 19 8:00 pm

Columba x Cactus Press at Accent Open Mic, with Michael Metivier, Sophie Villeneuve, and Mahta Riazi

Columba celebrates its 1st chapbook with Cactus Press at the Accent Reading Series. With readings by Michael Metivier, Sophie Villeneuve, and Mahta Riazi, followed with an open mic.

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June 24 5:00 pm

Sina Queyras – Rooms: Women, Writing, Woolf – Book Launch!

Sina Queyras in conversation with Alexei Perry Cox
De Still Booksellers, 351 Av. Duluth E. Montreal
June 24, 5pm-7pm

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June 28 7:00 pm

MIXED MARTIAL ARTS launch, with Steff Hui Ci Ling, Erín Moure, Anahita Jamali Rad and host David Bradford – at Anteism Books

Celebrate MIXED MARTIAL ARTS and the anti-work poem at Anteism Books. Event description (including a note on masks) here and excerpted in full below.

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July 21 6:30 pm

Cactus Press Book Launch at the MAI

Featuring Willow Loveday Little reading from her debut collection (Vice) Viscera.

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August 21 8:00 pm

Accent Reading Series, with open mic – Devon Gallant Book Launch!

Devon Gallant, curator of the Accent Reading Series, launches his new collection Bootleg Sake from Mosaic Press, followed by an open mic.

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August 27 6:00 pm

Alexei Perry Cox – Book Launch!

More about the book here.

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September 23 7:00 pm

Erin Robinsong Book Launch

With Alexei Perry Cox | Anteism Books (#100-435 Rue Beaubien O.) | 7pm

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