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SUMMARY:Double Poetry Launch: Julie Paul and Miranda Pearson
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating new work by two talented poets!! \n“Chomping / champing / championing / churlish / … / There’s a wolf at the door / that looks exactly like me.” Who is the “whiny baby” in this book? Rather than calling names or hurling insults\, the candid poems in this collection most often implicate the poet herself. Expansive in form and voice\, the poems in Julie Paul’s second collection\, Whiny Baby\, offer both love letters and laments. They take us to construction sites\, meadows\, waiting rooms\, beaches\, alleys\, gardens\, and frozen rivers\, from Montreal to Hornby Island. They ask us to live in the moment\, despite the moment. Including a spirited long poem that riffs on the fairy tale “Three Billy Goats Gruff\,” these poems are like old friends that at once console and confess. They blow kisses\, they remember\, and they celebrate the broken and the lost alongside the beautiful. At turns frank\, peevish\, introspective\, and mischievous\, the poems share sincere and intimate perspectives on the changing female body\, our natural and built landscapes\, and the idiosyncrasies of modern life. Whiny Baby calls on us to simultaneously examine and exult in our brief time on earth. \nJULIE PAUL’s second book of poetry\, Whiny Baby\, follows the 2017 release of the poetry collection The Rules of the Kingdom\, both published with McGill-Queen’s University Press. She is also the author of three short fiction collections\, The Jealousy Bone (Emdash\, 2008)\, The Pull of the Moon (Touchwood / Brindle & Glass\, 2014)\, and Meteorites (Touchwood\, 2019). Her writing has been published widely in journals and has received recognition from a number of sources. The Pull of the Moon won the 2015 Victoria Butler Book Prize\, and The Rules of the Kingdom was a finalist for both the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her personal essay “It Not Only Rises\, It Shines” won the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Award from The New Quarterly and her short story “The Expansion” won The Rusty Toque’s Chapbook Award. Unless she’s visiting her daughter in Montreal\, Julie lives in Victoria BC\, where\, in addition to writing\, she works as a Registered Massage Therapist.\n—\n“Come\, anguish. Help us manage / the plainsong of an open shore\, / its language of high tide rich and close\, / close and hard to see.” The early elegiac poems in Bridestones emerge from the borderlands between life and death\, loss and renewal. Drawing on dreams\, opera\, and visual art\, and employing symbolist and playfully surreal imagery\, Miranda Pearson questions the ways we tend and grieve – for each other and our environment. Beginning with a sudden bereavement\, the first section ends with a long poem\, “Clearance\,” that depicts the experience of emptying and departing a home – the physicality of a house serving as a vehicle for processing grief. Pearson writes on family trauma\, illness\, love\, and desire with a pervading sense of hauntedness\, compressed\, lyrical accounts of complex and ambivalent terrain. The impact of a pandemic lurks in the background\, and themes of fear run through much of this collection\, with poems exploring how we face our fears – or deny and avoid them – and\, ultimately\, how we grow and adapt. Through meditations on art\, myth\, archaeology\, ceremony\, and death\, Pearson reveals the veil between life and death when drawn to its thinnest. Like the hovering falcon depicted in “A Song of Roses\,” the poems view the world from above: “if earth is body\, and sky – God help us\, spirit.” \nMIRANDA PEARSON is widely published in literary journals and anthologies\, and Bridestones is her sixth book of poetry. Two of the previous titles\, Harbour and The Fire Extinguisher\, were shortlisted for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. While completing her MFA at UBC\, Miranda served as poetry editor for Prism international\, and has since taught at UBC and SFU. Miranda currently lives between the UK and Vancouver. \nPlease join us for readings from these two poets\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and refreshments! \nWHEN: Wednesday\, May 1st at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30)\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St.\nWHAT: Readings by Julie Paul and Miranda Pearson from their new poetry collections\, followed by a Q&A with the audience. Refreshments will be provided.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/double-poetry-launch-julie-paul-and-miranda-pearson/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: Hand Drawn Victoria with Emma Fitzgerald
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books on May 10th to meet Emma Fitzgerald\, author of Hand Drawn Victoria: An Illustrated Tour in and Around BC’s Capital City!! \nFor locals and visitors alike\, these sketches and stories highlight both the historic monuments and everyday moments that make Victoria shine. \nYou never know quite what you’ll come across in British Columbia’s capital city. With its unmissable landmarks that attract people from around the world\, Victoria is also rich in forested beauty\, charming houses\, and curious people\, and is steeped in local history. \nFollowing the charm of her previous book\, Hand Drawn Vancouver\, in this memorable book\, Emma FitzGerald captures the coastal city of Victoria and its surrounding communities in over 100 sketches of: \n• Iconic Landmarks: It wouldn’t be a visit to Victoria without stopping by the Empress\, Munro’s\, or Butchart Gardens.\n• Local Favourites: The longstanding Beacon Drive In and James Bay’s Birdcage Confectionary are some beloved spots honoured within these pages.\n• Beautiful Architecture: Journey back in time by admiring historic buildings\, like Queen Anne–style homes and the spiraling Belfry Theatre.\n• Stunning West Coast Landscape: Explore natural wonders\, from culturally significant fields of camas flowers to Mystic Beach’s stunning shoreline.\n• Overheard Conversations: What really makes a city are the people who live there—Emma documents snippets of passersby’s conversations as she sketches. \nStructured by neighbourhood\, Hand Drawn Victoria is a beautiful keepsake for locals and visitors alike\, and a lovely way to celebrate the city—its buildings\, its people\, and its essence. \nEMMA FITZGERALD was born to Irish parents in Lesotho\, a small mountainous kingdom in Southern Africa. She moved to Canada at a young age and spent most of her childhood in Vancouver\, BC. Emma received a BFA in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia in 2004\, and a Masters in Architecture from Dalhousie University in 2008. She has worked in architecture offices across Canada and in Johannesburg\, South Africa. Her love of drawing on location led to her first book\, Hand Drawn Halifax\, and its follow-up\, Sketch by Sketch Along Nova Scotia’s South Shore. She then turned her interest in people and places to where she grew up; Hand Drawn Vancouver was published in 2020 as she began working on Hand Drawn Victoria. In between her Hand Drawn series\, Emma has illustrated five children’s books\, including EveryBody’s Different on EveryBody Street\, written by Sheree Fitch. She lives and draws in Lunenburg\, Nova Scotia. \nWHEN: Friday\, May 10th from 1:00-2:30 p.m.\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St.\nWHAT: Meet and greet plus book signing with Emma Fitzgerald.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-signing-hand-drawn-victoria-with-emma-fitzgerald/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Wildlife Conservation Book Launch: Bob McDonald in Conversation with Greg Cummings and Sarah Cox
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in launching two new books by local authors about wildlife conversation!! We’ll present Greg Cummings\, author of Gorilla Tactics: How to Save a Species and Sarah Cox\, author of Signs of Life: Fieldnotes From the Frontlines of Extinction in conversation with Bob McDonald\, author of The Future is Now: Solving the Climate Crisis with Today’s Technologies\, and host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks! \nGorillas are among the most recognizable of the large charismatic mammals\, but climate change and poaching has brought them to the brink of extinction. Greg Cummings was the executive director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund for seventeen years. He shares his fascinating experiences as a “wildlife Robin Hood”—raising money from the rich and famous and redistributing it to endangered gorillas and their habitats. He met and enlisted the help of celebrities such as Sigourney Weaver\, Arthur C. Clark\, Douglas Adams\, and Leonardo DiCaprio. This thirty-year worldwide journey moves from boardrooms in Manhattan and London to mountain treks in Rwanda and Congo. Gorilla Tactics is sure to enchant readers with Greg’s unique experiences\, while sharing insight into the work it takes to save a species from extinction. \nGREG CUMMINGS has been featured in international publications such as the Guardian\, Ecologist\, and Sea Angler. In 2006 his organization was awarded the BBC Animal Award for best wildlife conservation program. A fundraiser since 1990\, Cummings has raised money in America\, Britain\, France\, Holland\, Italy\, and Canada for causes ranging from wildlife conservation to mental health. As director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund UK\, he set up dozens of innovative\, grassroots projects in troubled parts of the world—many of which are self-sustaining to this day. His global perspective has given him an eye for where the next crisis might arise\, and how to thwart it. He lives in Victoria\, British Columbia. \n— \nWhat’s to be done when only three spotted owls are left in Canada’s wild? When wolves eat endangered caribou\, cormorants kill rare trees\, and housing developments threaten a tiny frog? Environmental journalist Sarah Cox has witnessed what happens when we drive species to the brink of extinction. In Signs of Life\, she tags along with the Canadian military\, Indigenous guardians\, biologists\, conservationists\, and ordinary people who are racing to save hundreds of species before it’s too late. Travelling across the country\, Cox visits the Toronto Zoo\, home of Canada’s only wildlife biobank\, where scientists conserve living cells from endangered species in the event of future loss; tours Canada’s military bases\, home to some of Canada’s last preserved ecosystems; and travels to Indigenous communities where land stewards are striving to restore the delicate ecological balance that has sustained people for millennia. Through the eyes and work of individuals who are bringing species back from the precipice\, Cox delivers both an urgent message and a fresh perspective on how we can protect biodiversity and begin to turn things around. \nSARAH COX is an award-winning author and journalist based in Victoria\, B.C. In 2022\, Cox won the Canadian Association of Journalists’ Award for Environmental & Climate Change Reporting and her investigative reporting for the Narwhal has also been awarded the World Press Freedom Award and the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has also won a Gold Digital Publishing Award with her colleagues at The Narwhal and previously won two Western Magazine Awards. Sarah’s first book Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro won a B.C. Book Prize and was a finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing (Writers’ Trust of Canada) and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. \n— \nBOB McDONALD has been the host of CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks since 1992. He is a regular science commentator on CBC’s News Network and a science correspondent for CBC TV’s The National. His book Measuring the Earth with a Stick was shortlisted for the Canadian Science Writers Association Book Award. He has been honoured with the 2001 Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; the 2002 Sandford Fleming Medal from The Royal Canadian Institute; and the 2005 McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science from the Royal Society of Canada. In November 2011\, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, May 22nd at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30) \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. in Victoria \nWHAT: Readings from Greg Cummings and Sarah Cox\, followed by a conversation moderated by Bob McDonald and a Q&A with the audience. Book signings will follow. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/wildlife-conservation-book-launch-bob-mcdonald-in-conversation-with-greg-cummings-and-sarah-cox/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
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