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Melbourne 2019 Writers Festival

Melbourne Melbourne

Each year we invite our audience to be challenged, be entertained, to learn and be inspired through a buzzing program of storytelling, conversation and discussion, intellectual debate, educational programs, live performance, music and art events. The Festival includes events for people of all ages and more than a quarter of …

Recurring

C.D. Wright’s One with Others: A Poetry Workshop with Hoa Nguyen

In this workshop (which runs Sundays from September 8 to December 1, except October 13 and November 24), participants in person and online read and write through One with Others by C.D. Wright. Participants spend the first hour reading poems (aloud) and another hour writing. The writing portion takes the …

Billy-Ray Belcourt launches NDN Coping Mechanism

Librairie Drawn & Quarterly 176 Rue Bernard O, Montreal, Quebec

Join Librairie Drawn & Quarterly as they celebrate the launch of Billy-Ray Belcourt's latest book, NDN Coping Mechanisms. In the follow-up to his Griffin Poetry Prize–winning collection This Wound is a World, Billy-Ray Belcourt aims more of an anthropological eye at the contours of NDN and queer social worlds to …

Interactive Poetry Library in Poetry Tram

Bucharest Bucharest

A tram running on Bucharest’s line 1 will host an interactive poetry library between September 10 and October 1, as part of the Poetry Tram project of Arta nu Musca (Art Doesn’t Bite) organization, in a partnership with the Bucharest City Hall and the capital’s public transport company STB. Those …

Billy-Ray Belcourt: NDN Coping Mechanisms

Art Gallery of Ontario Art Gallery of Ontario (AGo, Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), 317 Dundas Street West, Ontario

Join writer Billy-Ray Belcourt in conversation with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson about his new genre-bending work, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the Field. Belcourt employs poetry, poetics, prose, and photography to illuminate the rogue possibilities bubbling up everywhere NDNs are. Learn more here.

Margaret Atwood launches The Testaments

On Tuesday September 10, the wait will be over ... The Testaments, Margaret Atwood’s highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, will be revealed. The momentous literary event will be celebrated with an exclusive live cinema broadcast, as Fane Productions present an evening with the Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic …

Wilson, Reynolds and Dewar at the Art Bar Poetry Series

Free Times Cafe Free Times Cafe, 320 College Street, Toronto, Ontario

The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …