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Oct
12
Small Fires Book Launch
Wednesday, October 12th, 20167:30 p.m.
The Word Bookstore, 469 Milton street, Montréal, Quebec H2X 1W3
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Please join Kelly Drukker for the launch of her new book of poetry, Small Fires. The launch will be held at The Word Bookstore on Wednesday, Oct 12. 7:30pm. All are welcome.
“If one were to make a colour palette for Small Fires, it would be a watercolour of stones and derelict wood greys, dusky blues, a smear of rainy green through a window, the creosote of town, as rage by morning dies down to “murmur / through stovepipes.”” Montreal Review of Books
Small Fires
By Kelly Norah Drukker
Poems that illustrate the stories that lie buried in landscapes and in human lives.
We come / to kneel at the doorway, / to peer into that kind of / dark. To think our way / backwards, listening.
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. Read more>
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The Word Bookstore
469 Milton street
Montréal, Quebec
H2X 1W3
(514)-845-5640
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