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SUMMARY:Double Poetry Collection Launch: Patrick Grace and Tina Biello
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of two new poetry collections by local authors! \nPatrick Grace’s debut collection\, Deviant\, traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood\, examining love\, fear\, grief\, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships. Richly engaged with the tangible and experiential\, Patrick Grace’s confessional poetry captures profound\, sharp emotions\, tracking a journey impacted equally by beauty and by brutality. Coming-of-age identity struggles are recalled with wry wit\, and dreamlike poems embrace adolescent queer love and connections as a way to cope with the fear and cruelty that can occur in gay relationships. Later poems in the collection recall vivid moments of psychological trauma and stalking and explore the bias of the justice system toward gay men. Collecting memories\, dreams\, and fears about sexual identity\, Deviant makes important contributions to queer coming-of-age and intimate partner violence narratives. \nPATRICK GRACE is an author and teacher who divides his time between Vancouver and Victoria\, BC. He has read at literary festivals around Canada\, including Word Vancouver and Versefest Ottawa\, and will be appearing at the Edmonton Poetry Festival in late April. He has published two chapbooks: a blurred wind swirls back for you (2023)\, and Dastardly (2021)\, exploring aspects of love\, fear\, and trauma that represent a personal queer identity. Deviant\, his first full-length poetry collection\, continues to explore these themes. He works as managing editor of Plenitude Magazine\, and is this year’s judge for The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry. \nIn Tina Biello’s new collection\, The Weight of Survival\, in a small logging town nestled near Lake Cowichan is an old elementary school. The child of immigrants from post-war Italy attends this school among the population of mostly white\, anglo-saxon families. She does not speak English. \nHer family is one of four who emigrated from southern Italy\, to this small forested community. There are other families\, from India\, who share a kinship of ‘other’ with the Italian families. What happens when your voice\, your food\, your home is different? How do you know how to be queer when there is no language or place for it? How do you remember a time not spoken of\, but passed on through the smell of walnut blossoms in the spring\, grapes in the fall? In The Weight of Survival\, Tina Biello chronicles this upbringing of otherness\, of being shaped by two very different communities\, of blending identities into one\, and what is left behind in the process. \nPoet\, playwright and actor\, TINA BIELLO was born in Lake Cowichan\, a small logging town here on Vancouver Island to immigrant parents. She has honed her skills of being from ‘two places’ and speaks a few languages because of it. She believes in the power of poetry to reach in\, grab hold and get us through. She had the great privilege of working with mentor Patrick Lane. ‘The Weight of Survival’ is her 4th book of poems. When she’s not writing poetry\, she’s gardening\, walking dogs and writing plays and more recently a screenplay. She was Nanaimo’s 2nd Poet Laureate from 2017-2020 and has just finished a 3 year cycle of writing librettos for composers with the Vancouver Island Symphony. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, April 3rd at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30). \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street. \nWHAT: Readings by Patrick Grace and Tina Biello\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/double-poetry-collection-launch-patrick-grace-and-tina-biello/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet,Panel
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Boxing the Compass by Michael L. Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning historian and mariner Michael L. Hadley on his international adventures as he launches his memoir\, Boxing the Compass: A Life of Seafaring\, Music\, and Pilgrimage (Heritage House\, 2024). \nFriday\, April 5\, 2024 | 3:30–5:00 pm\nMaritime Museum of BC | 744 Douglas St. | Victoria\, BC \nRegister at mmbc.bc.ca\nEvent included with museum admission or membership—come early to visit the museum\nBooks available for purchase and signing
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-boxing-the-compass-by-michael-l-hadley/
LOCATION:Maritime Museum of BC\, 634 Humboldt St.\, Victoria\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Boxing the Compass by Michael L. Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning historian and mariner Michael L. Hadley on his international adventures as he launches his memoir\, Boxing the Compass: A Life of Seafaring\, Music\, and Pilgrimage (Heritage House\, 2024). \nFriday\, April 5\, 2024 | 3:30–5:00 pm\nMaritime Museum of BC | 744 Douglas St. | Victoria\, BC \nRegister at mmbc.bc.ca\nEvent included with museum admission or membership—come early to visit the museum\nBooks available for purchase and signing
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-boxing-the-compass-by-michael-l-hadley-2/
LOCATION:Maritime Museum of BC\, 634 Humboldt St.\, Victoria\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Kayla Czaga and Anne Fleming
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of new books by two talented local writers!! \n“I feel like the crud / I accidentally touch sometimes\, whatever it is / that collects under cushions on my couch\,” writes Kayla Czaga in her third collection\, Midway\, an exploration of grief in all its manifestations. In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths\, Czaga visits the underworld (at least twice)\, Vietnamese restaurants\, the beach\, London’s Tate Modern\, Las Vegas casinos\, and a fish textbook. Honest\, elegiac\, characteristically strange\, and frequently funny\, these poems take the reader through bright scenery like carnival rides with fast climbs and sudden drops. The meanings and messages Czaga uncovers on her travels are complicated: hopeful\, bleak-both comforting and not. Along with the parents the poet mourns\, this collection showcases a varied cast. A suburban father-in-law copes with a troubling diagnosis. Marge Simpson quits The Simpsons. Death is a metalhead who dates girls too young for him. Midway is a welcome and necessary collection from one of the most celebrated and accomplished poets of her generation. \nKAYLA CZAGA is the author of two previous poetry collections-For Your Safety Please Hold On (Nightwood Editions\, 2014)\, and Dunk Tank (House of Anansi\, 2019). Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Frequently anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry in English series\, her writing also appears in The Walrus\, Grain\, Event\, The Fiddlehead\, and elsewhere. She lives with her wife on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people\, the Songhees nd Esquimalt nations.\n—\nAnne Fleming’s latest novel\, Curiosities\, opens with a present-day amateur historian\, Anne\, who describes her unexpected discovery of five seventeenth-century manuscripts that\, astonishingly\, tell the same strange story from vastly different points of view. And so it falls upon Anne\, the contemporary historian\, to piece together these interlocking stories\, discover the fate of a pair of lovers\, and add her own layer of “truth” to a history and time period when there were no labels for who these lovers might truly be. \nANNE FLEMING is the author of Pool-Hopping & Other Stories (Raincoast\, 1998)\, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction\, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize\, and the Danuta Gleed Award\, as well as the much-praised novel\, Anomaly (Raincoast\, 2005). She is also the author of a middle-grade novel\, The Goat (Groundwood\, 2017)\, which was a Junior Library Guild and White Ravens selection\, shortlisted for Italy’s Premio Strega\, optioned for film\, and named one of the Top Ten Children’s Books of the Year by The New York Public Library and the Wall Street Journal. Anne Fleming lives in Victoria\, BC. \nWHEN: Thursday\, April 18th\, 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St.\nWHAT: Readings of new work from Kayla Czaga and Anne Fleming followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings. Refreshments will be provided. The audience will also be serenaded by lute playing from Anne Fleming and local musician\, Doug Hensley.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-kayla-czaga-and-anne-fleming/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Always On Call • Terrace\, BC
DESCRIPTION:Join bestselling author Marion McKinnon Crook to launch Always On Call: Adventures in Nursing\, Ranching\, and Rural Living—the much-anticipated sequel to Always Pack a Candle! \nSaturday\, April 20\, 2024\n1–2 pm\nTerrace Public Library\, 4610 Park Ave.\, Terrace\, BC \n• free to attend — everyone welcome\n• Books for sale by Misty River Books
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-always-on-call-terrace-bc/
LOCATION:Terrace Public Library\, 4610 Park Ave\, Terrace\, BC\, V8G 1V6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:10th Anniversary of BC Book Day
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: Tuesday\, April 23\, 2024 \nWHAT: BC Book Day invites British Columbians to celebrate the province’s book & magazine publishers\, authors\, illustrators\, bookstores\, libraries\, festivals\, and literary prizes that connect us with local stories. \nGOAL: To raise awareness among government and the general public of BC’s publishing ecosystem and its cultural and economic contributions. \nWHO: BC Book Day is coordinated by the Association of Book Publishers of BC\, which works to support the long-term health and success of the Canadian-owned book industry in British Columbia. \nDid you know? \n\nBritish Columbia is the second largest English-language book publishing region in Canada\, with more than 30 active publishers.\nBC publishers operate in several regions\, including the Southern Interior\, the Sunshine Coast\, Vancouver Island\, and the Lower Mainland.\nWe bring Canadian writing and culture to a global audience\, exporting to more than 40 countries each year.
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