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SUMMARY:Book Signing with Ken McGoogan
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books for a book signing with award-winning\, globe-trotting\, history-hunting storyteller\, Ken McGoogan! \nIn his latest book\, Searing for Franklin: New Light on the Great Arctic Mystery\, arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery. \nTwo of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s expeditions were monumental failures—the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths\, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discover the Northwest Passage. \nThis book\, McGoogan’s sixth about Arctic exploration\, challenges that vision. It rejects old orthodoxies\, incorporates the latest discoveries\, and interweaves two main narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy’s Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819\, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Métis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men to exhaustion\, starvation and murder. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin’s last expedition? \nThe well-preserved wrecks of Erebus and Terror—located in 2014 and 2016—promise to yield more clues about what cost the lives of the expedition members\, some of whom were reduced to cannibalism. Contemporary researchers\, rejecting theories of lead poisoning and botulism\, continue to seek conclusive evidence both underwater and on land. \nDrawing on his own research and Inuit oral accounts\, McGoogan teases out many intriguing aspects of Franklin’s expeditions\, including the explorer’s lethal hubris in ignoring the expert advice of the Dene leader Akaitcho. Franklin disappeared into the Arctic in 1845\, yet people remain fascinated with his final doomed voyage: what happened? McGoogan will captivate readers with his first-hand account of travelling to relevant locations\, visiting the graves of dead sailors and experiencing the Arctic—one of the most dramatic and challenging landscapes on the planet.
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LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Dream House by Cathy Stonehouse with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, October 27th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Nightwood Editions for the launch of Cathy Stonehouse’s Dream House with guests. Cathy will be joined by special guest readers Renée Saklikar and Nina Mosall with host Nicola Harwood. \n“Cathy Stonehouse’s Dream House\, like any magical dwelling\, is not what it at first appears to be. Walk inside. Explore its rooms. It is larger and more expansive than you might think. Also stranger\, more peculiar\, idiosyncratic. It is a metaverse of possibilities\, the locus where what is lived intersects with what is imagined. As Stonehouse herself puts it\, ‘The house is a cocoon\, an open coffin. It is full of weather\, and changes / every time you dare to look.’ Open the door. Close your eyes. The operative word is not house but dream. Look around. You are already there.” –Paul Vermeersch\, author of Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995–2020 \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free and required for entrance. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. \nPlease refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nFor more on accessibility including parking\, seating\, venue measurements and floor plan\, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the book: \nDream House (Nightwood Editions\, 2023) \nA long poem in six sections\, Dream House takes its cue from Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space in its investigation of female embodiment by calling up such feral\, liminal spaces as the pregnant body\, the aging mind\, snail shells\, broom closets\, low-ceilinged pubs and abandoned pizza boxes. Part Tardis\, part townhouse\, part Howl’s moving castle\, this wry\, surreal and many-peopled narrative interrogates what metaphor might hold of history\, both personal and social\, in the wake of a mother’s passing. Its migrant speaker trawls through hedgerows and recipe books to unearth stained birdsong and undead civil wars\, intent on tracing a matrilineal path across four generations while traversing the haunted margins between existence and belonging. \nAbout the author: \nCATHY STONEHOUSE (she/they) is a poet\, writer\, teacher and visual artist in Vancouver\, BC. The author of a novel\, The Causes\, a collection of short fiction\, Something About the Animal\, and two previous collections of poetry—Grace Shiver and The Words I Know. Stonehouse co-edited the ground-breaking anthology Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood and is a former editor of EVENT magazine. They teach creative writing and interdisciplinary expressive arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. \nAbout the guest readers & host: \nRenée Saklikar is the author of five books\, including the award-winning Children of Air India and Listening to the Bees. Her poetry\, essays\, and short fiction have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies\, including Exile Editions\, Chatelaine\, The Capilano Review\, and Pulp Literature. The latest volume of her epic fantasy in verse\, Bramah’s Quest\, was released in August 2023 (Nightwood Editions). She was poet laureate for the City of Surrey 2015–2018 and volunteers for Event Magazine\, Meet the Presses\, Surrey International Writers Conference\, and Poetry in Canada. Renée teaches creative writing and editing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and hosts Lunch Poems at SFU. \nNina Mosall (bio coming soon) \nNicola Harwood (she/they) is a queer writer and interdisciplinary artist. Her plays\, performances and installation projects have been produced in Canada\, Europe and the US. Nicola often works in collaboration with other artists and she has facilitated many art\, writing and theatre projects with youth and community members. Recent installation projects include Summoning\, No Words\, an interactive sound installation built out of the female voice and High Muck-a-Muck: Playing Chinese (2014) an artist / programmer collaboration which won the 2015 UK New Media Writing Prize. Her memoir about queer family\, Flight Instructions for the Commitment Impaired\, was published by Caitlin Press in 2016. She is grateful to live and love on the ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations also known as Vancouver\, Canada. Nicola teaches Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. www.nicolaharwood.com
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