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 …
Pivot presents the writers breathing life into Canadian literary culture. Established and emerging, time-tested and fresh; they're what's happening in literature, right now. This evening's readings at The Steady Café on Bloor West in Toronto are by Puneet Dutt, Nora Gold, Hal Niedzviecki and Matt Robinson. Learn more here. Return …
The Growing Room Festival is Room magazine’s inaugural literary festival, a celebration of diverse Canadian writers and artists. The festival line-up includes Amber Dawn, Marianne Apostolides, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Carleigh Baker, Adèle Barclay and many more. Learn more here. Return to the International Poetry Calendar.
How does poetry reach towards a new understanding of the unknown? Auden wrote that ‘the centre I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.’ In today’s increasingly complex and often urban environment, what is sacred to us as individuals? And how does poetry reach towards a new understanding of …
This is a playful, supportive three-month poetry course for beginners and aspiring amateur poets, with two of the best practitioners and teachers in the country – all at the home of British poetry, Faber & Faber. Over the course of three months, join award-winning Faber & Faber poets Jo Shapcott …