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La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, 176 Rue Bernard Ouest, Montreal, QC
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All are invited to the launch of the Montreal Review of Books Spring 2019 issue! The night will include readings from featured authors Mark Abley (The Organist: Fugues, Fatherhood, and a Fragile Mind), Tanya Evanson (Nouveau Griot), and Tess Liem (Obits.). Light refreshments will be served, and you can pick up your copy of the issue, hot off the press.
Tess Liem is a queer writer living in Montreal, Tiotia:ke, the traditional territory of the Mohawk nation. She is the author of the chapbook Tell everybody I say hi (Anstruther 2017) and her writing has appeared in Plenitude, Room Magazine, PRISM, Best Canadian Poetry 2018, and elsewhere. Her debut collection of poetry is Obits. (Coach House 2018).
Mark Abley is the author of six books of non-fiction, four collections of poetry, and two children's books. He worked for many years as a journalist and columnist for the Montreal Gazette and is now an acquisition editor for McGill-Queen's University Press. In 2009, following a translation into Spanish of his book Spoken Here: Travels among Threatened Languages, he became the first Canadian author to receive the LiberPress Award for international writers. He lives in Pointe Claire.
Tanya Evanson is an Antiguan-Canadian poet, performer, producer and arts educator from Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. She is also director of The Banff Centre Spoken Word Program. With a history of 20 years in spoken word performance, she received the Golden Beret Award for her contribution to the genre and was Poet of Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in 2013. Alongside features in documentaries, videopoems, tv and radio, notable live performances include Vancouver Writers Festival, Edmonton Poetry Festival, Bowery Poetry (US), Story-Fest (Australia), Ubud Writers Festival (Indonesia), Poetry Africa (South Africa), Edinburgh Book Festival and Glastonbury Festival. Her fourth studio album and band project ZENSHIP (2016), received critical acclaim for pushing boundaries between poetry and live music. And following six artist books, Bothism (Ekstasis Editions 2017) is her first published poetry collection and Nouveau Griot (2018) is fresh from Frontenac House. Other recent print publications includes Arc Poetry Magazine, WSQ-Feminist Press, Making Room (Caitlin Press), and Resist Much/Obey Little (Dispatches Editions). She moonlights as a whirling dervish and is at work on her first novella.