PoetryNOW: 11th Annual Battle of the Bards

Cost: $10, FREE for Friends of the Festival and Students/Youth (25 and Under)/members of The League of Canadian Poets

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MQUP poet Kelly Norah Drukker (Small Fires) will join 19 other poets at PoetryNOW: The Battle of the Bards.

Toronto's popular poetry competition, PoetryNOW: The Battle of the Bards, is back for its 11th year to feature readings from 20 dynamic poets and showcase a diverse range of voices, themes and poetic genres. Each poet will be given three minutes to read their work, which can range from comical to contemplative.

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. Also present is a series of poems set in the Midi-Pyrénées and in the countryside around Lyon. Linked to the shorter poems in the collection by landscape, theme, and tone is a set of longer narrative poems that give voice to imagined speakers who are, each in a different way, living on the margins.

Kelly Norah Drukker's work has appeared in journals in Canada, the UK, and Ireland. She lives in Montreal.