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Cloak and Dagger Irish Pub, 394 College Street, Toronto, ON
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Note: this is a new venue and start-time from the original
ArtBar Poetry Series presents Benjamin Hertwig, Anne Campbell, and Spencer Gordon for a night of poetry reading on October 10 at the Cloak and Dagger Irish Pub in Toronto, ON.
The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to enjoy one of the oldest arts.
Benjamin Hertwig’s debut collection of poetry, Slow War, is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing. While these poems inhabit both experimental and traditional forms, the breakdown of language channels a descent into violence and an ascent into a future that no longer feels certain, where history and trauma are forever intertwined. Hertwig reminds us that remembering war is a political act and that writing about war is a way we remember.