LitLive Literary Readings: Small Fires

The Staircase, 27 Dundurn Street North, Hamilton, ON
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Kelly Norah Drukker will read from her poetry latest collection, Small Fires, at the September edition of LitLive Literary Readings at The Staircase in Hamilton, ON. Other readers include Barbara Sibbald, Stevie Howell, Darrell Epp, Sky Gilbert, and Bahar Orang.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Tracing a series of journeys, real and imagined, Kelly Norah Drukker's Small Fires opens with a section of poems set on Inis Mór, a remote, Irish-speaking island off the west coast of County Galway, where the poet-as-speaker discovers the ways in which remnants of the island's early Christian monastic culture brush up against island life in the twenty-first century. In detailed and musical language, the poems in Small Fires highlight aspects of landscape and culture in regions that are haunted by marginal and silenced histories.

"Drukker possesses the kind of eye that locates and zeroes in on the most important detail in her field of vision, yet also somehow gives the impression of seeing everything at once. The result is far more than poems-as-travelogue, then: it’s a moving meditation on place and belonging." The Montreal Gazette

"The power of this work derives from a careful letting objects speak for themselves, where details tell all there is to know. Like love letters that tear apart brutal secrets of land, legacy, and the breaking down that occurs in the shadows, this collection…resonates with the rawness of displacement and belonging." A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry jury