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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: 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:Meet the Author: Robyn Harding: "A Drowning Woman"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of engaging discussion with Robyn Harding\, about her latest book:\nThe Drowning Woman \nDrinks and light fare provided.\nWine supplied by Sage Hayward Vineyards. \nAbout the author:\nRobyn Harding is the author of numerous international bestsellers\, including The Party\, The Arrangement\, The Swap and The Drowning Woman. As a speaker\, she is definitely a Lyceum favourite – her presentation style is fluid so that she can meet the needs of everyone in her audience. Robyn has also written and executive produced an independent film\, The Steps. She lives in Vancouver\, BC\, with her family and two cute\, but deadly\, rescue chihuahuas.\nVisit her at RobynHarding.com or follow her on Twitter and Instagram @RHardingWriter or Facebook @AuthorRobynHarding.\nDo not miss out\, register soon and pick up your copy of The Drowning Woman at the Lyceum and save 15%. \nAbout the book:\nThe Drowning Woman is a deliciously twisted story of friendship\, retribution\, and betrayal about a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past—and the wealthy society wife she saves from drowning\, who pulls her into a dark web of secrets and lies. \nLee Gulliver never thought she’d find herself living on the streets—no one ever does—but when her restaurant fails\, and she falls deeper into debt\, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle\, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move—until early one morning\, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee hauls the woman back to the surface\, but instead of appreciation\, she is met with fury. The drowning woman\, Hazel\, tells her that she’s trapped in a toxic\, abusive marriage\, that she’s a prisoner in her own home. Lee has thwarted her one chance to escape her life. \nOut of options\, Hazel retreats to her gilded cage\, and Lee thinks she’s seen the last of her\, until her unexpected return the next morning. Bonded by disparate but difficult circumstances\, the women soon strike up a close and unlikely friendship. And then one day\, Hazel makes a shocking request… \nReview:\nWith deceitful characters who are not what they seem\, a myriad of unexpected twists and turns\, and a story that moves along at high speed\, “The Drowning Woman” is everything I love in a thriller. Robyn Harding keeps readers hooked until the end.”\n-Mary Kubica\, New York Times bestselling authot of “Local Woman Missing”
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/meet-the-author-robyn-harding-a-drowning-woman/
LOCATION:Christianne’s Lyceum of Literature and Art\, 4433 West 10th Avenue\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6R2H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Canadian Independent Bookstore Day at Munro's Books!!
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, April 27th\, celebrate Canadian Independent Bookstore Day with Munro’s Books!!! \nOn Saturday\, April 27\, readers across the country will have the opportunity to support local independent bookshops by participating in Canadian Independent Bookstore Day (CIBD). With more than 150 participating shops expected\, CIBD is an annual cultural celebration and an opportunity for book buyers\, authors\, illustrators\, and publishers to acknowledge the vibrant literary ecosystem created by our “indie” bookshops. The stores in this national network act as key community ambassadors\, convenors of important conversations\, and contributors to vibrant local economies. \nHere’s what will be going on at Munro’s: \nALL DAY:\nEarn double points with all purchases!\nEnter to win one of two prize packages!\nMatch the author to their book cover game!\nMunro’s bookmark photobooth!\nBookmark colouring station!\nBlind Date with a Book!\nPostcards to Munro’s: A display of postcards to Munro’s from some of our favourite authors! We’ve sent Munro’s Books postcards to authors\, both local and across the country and the world and have asked them to write about a favourite moment at Munro’s\, or what they love about Munro’s\, why Munro’s is important to them\, or just the importance of independent bookstores in general. On April 27th\, we’ll have these authors’ postcards on display for you to read! \nBOOK SIGNINGS:\nCome and meet these local authors! \n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Gregor Craigie\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Michael Christie\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Sho Yamagushiku \nCHILDREN’S STORY TIME:\n3:00 – 3:30 p.m. – with Esi Edugyan\n3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – with Monique Gray Smith \nWe hope you’ll join us to celebrate and continue to cultivate the important and special relationship that exists between writers\, readers\, and bookstores!! \nWHEN: Saturday\, April 27th all day (9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street in Victoria.\nWHAT: A celebration of Canadian Independent Bookstore Day!\nHOW: This celebration is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/canadian-independent-bookstore-day-at-munros-books/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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