DRAMATIC READING & BOOK LAUNCH | The Milk of Amnesia by Danielle Janess About this event

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Join Danielle Janess for the dramatic poetry reading, conversation, and virtual book launch of her debut poetry collection, The Milk of Amnesia. A celebrated cast of poets and performers will read a dramatic excerpt of the collection. The reading will be followed by a conversation between Tim Lilburn and the author. Hosted by Munro's Books.

Director:
Ming Hudson

Special Guests: 
Philip Kevin Paul
Tim Lilburn
Warren Heiti
Marlene Ginader
Anouk Janess

ABOUT THE COLLECTION

Danielle Janess's debut poetry collection resists the erasing effects of war, nationalism, and forced migration. Following the speaker's arduous relocation to a twenty-first-century Europe still etched with the wounds of the past, the poems take on daring forms and language, becoming theatre, film clips, photographs, and dance, all embodied by a cast of characters marked by the violence of the last century.

Arrested in Warsaw within the first twenty days of the Second World War, Janess's maternal grandfather was sent to a Soviet gulag where he survived for three years before joining the Free Polish Army in Russia and later the battle of Monte Cassino in the Italian Campaign. Many of the poems in The Milk of Amnesia grow from the soil of Warsaw and Berlin, where the poet-speaker catapults herself and her young child in an effort to locate and unearth their family inheritance.