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  • July 2023

  • Sat 29

    Remnants of Place: Natalie Virginia Lang with Guests

    July 29, 2023 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Massy Arts 23 East Pender, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

    On Saturday, July 29th at 6pm, join Massy Arts, Massy Books, and Caitlin Press for Remnants of Place: Natalie Virginia Lang with Guests Stephen Collis, Betsy Warland and Daniela Elza. Through poetic prose, Lang meditates on the social, historical, cultural, and environmental losses suffered at the hands of infringement upon natural areas. This project has […]

  • August 2023

  • Tue 1

    Poetry Workshops / Chasing The Poem – 4th Edition / All Queer Mentorship

    August 1, 2023 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
    Massy Arts 23 East Pender, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

    From July 11th to August 1st, Massy Arts and Massy Books host, Chasing The Poem – Fourth Edition, an online poetry workshop marathon for emerging writers, in three courses created by queer poets to demystify poetry writing, to present useful writing prompts, to incite imagination, and to address political and poetic points of view through […]

    Free
  • Wed 2

    Ever-Arriving Openings: An Evening with Adeena Karasick

    August 2, 2023 | 6:00 pm
    Massy Arts 23 East Pender, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

    On Thurs. Aug. 3 at 6pm, join Massy Arts and Dialogos / Lavender Ink for the double launch of Adeena Karasick's latest poetry books: Ærotomania: The Book of Lumenations and Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings . Through a poetics of politically engaged aesthetic resistance, Ærotomania negotiates turbulence, loss, nostalgia and hope, while the poems in Ouvert Oeuvre […]

    Free
  • Thu 24

    Wild Prose Readings Presents: Troubled Towns and Waters with Curtis LeBlanc, Michael Melgaard and Mike Sadava

    August 24, 2023 | 6:30 pm - 10:00 pm
    Paul Phillips Hall 1923 Fernwood Road, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Please join us for an evening of small-town and watery crime literature! The evening will begin with an open mic at 7 - bring your writing to share! Featured readers will begin at 7:30 p.m.: Vancouver-based poet and novelist Curtis LeBlanc will read from his debut novel, Sunsetter, which is about crime and drugs at […]

    $5.00
  • September 2023

  • Wed 13

    Book Launch: Lorna Crozier and M.A.C. Farrant

    September 13, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    Munro's Books 1108 Government Street, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Join Munro's Books in celebrating the newest releases from two incredibly talented local authors! Lorna Crozier's After That is a book written from the dark hollow we fall into when we lose those we love. Lorna's sure poetry engages with the grief that comes from the death of her partner, the writer Patrick Lane, with […]

    Free
  • Sat 16

    Poetry Bus! Celebrating the 27th Year of Poetry in Transit

    September 16, 2023 | 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm
    UBC Robson Square 800 Robson St, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    In partnership with TransLink and BC Transit, Read Local BC presents the launch of this year’s Poetry In Transit campaign at Word Vancouver. Now celebrating its 27th year, this beloved community-engagement project displays the work of ten BC poets on public transit vehicles throughout the province. Join us to hear a selection of the featured […]

    Free
  • Wed 27

    Launch of Hologram: an Homage to P.K. Page

    September 27, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
    Munro's Books 1108 Government Street, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Join Munro’s Books for the launch of Hologram: an Homage to P.K. Page Editors Yvonne Blomer and D.C. Reid will host an evening of poetry with local poets John Barton, Stephen T. Berg, Barbara Black, Wendy Donawa, Beth Kope, Dan MacIsaac, Lynne Mustard, Barbara Pelman, Pamela Porter, and Cynthia Woodman Kerkham in a poetic tribute […]

    Free
  • October 2023

  • Tue 3

    Book Launch: Freddie by Grant Hayter-Menzies • Victoria, BC

    October 3, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
    Bolen Books #111-1644 Hillside Ave., Victoria, BC, Canada

    Join local author Grant Hayter-Menzies as he presents Freddie: The Rescue Dog Who Rescued Me, a book for anyone who has ever loved and lost an animal. Freddie is the moving memoir of a writer—a biographer of historical animals—whose life was forever changed when a rescue dog came into his life. Tracing their journey from […]

    Free
  • Sat 14

    Dual Launch of “Gumboot Guys” and “Knots and Stitches”

    October 14, 2023 | 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Osborne Bay Pub 1534 Joan Ave, Crofton, B.C., Canada

    Celebrate the Adventurous Spirit of Coastal Living in the 1970s. Two new Books are being launched in the inviting ambience of the Osborne Bay Pub. You can buy a beer, buy a book, meet the authors, and get your books signed. From the vibrant era of the 1970s when adventure seekers, dreamers, and wanderers flocked […]

    Free
  • Wed 18

    Book Launch Event for Male Pregnancy in Reverse!

    October 18, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
    Cross and Crows Bookstore 2836 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Tom will be reading with Mark Laba in Vancouver in October: He will be reading from his forthcoming collection, Male Pregnancy in Reverse, releasing on September 30th! Tom Prime is, as described by Daniel Harris, author of The Posthuman Series, “at the forefront of a new generation of avant-gardists.” His latest work is a long poem “in 5 Acts” […]

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