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SUMMARY:Triple Book Launch: Therrien\, Thornton\, and Zieroth
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books December 2nd as we celebrate three new titles from award-winning writers: Richard Therrien’s Unarmoured Excursions\, Russell Thornton’s The Broken Face\, David Zieroth’s The Bridge from Night to Day\, from Harbour Publishing and Gaspereau Press ¶ Printers & Publishers. \nDecember 2nd\, 7pm\nFree Entry \nAbout Unarmoured Excursions by BC Book Prize finalist Richard Therrien: \nThe eight prose pieces comprising Unarmoured Excursions explore the slippery territory between formal essays and imaginative narrative\, each willfully puncturing the barrier between what we experience and what we actually perceive. While descriptive details root his prose in real places and situations\, Therrien’s mischievous turn of mind prefers to veer off the track of documentary and head into unexplored territory. Whether he’s writing the magical realism of a dream\, the overheard dialogue of teens in a food court\, or the reflections of a man left caring for a vulnerable\, nonverbal stranger\, Therrien heads for the uncertainty of open ground from which the mingling of the transcendent and the immanent may be observed—or imagined. \nRichard Therrien has worked for decades in theatre\, film\, speech-writing\, and editing\, publishing poetry and prose in various periodicals\, including Grain\, The New Quarterly\, Prairie Fire\, Filling Station\, Absinthe\, and CV2. His most recent publication is a book of poems\, Sleeping in Tall Grass (2016) published by University of Alberta Press\, 2016 (Robert Kroetsch Series) which was a BC Book Prize finalist for the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award. He lives in North Vancouver\, British Columbia. \nAbout The Broken Face by Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Russell Thornton: \nThe poems in The Broken Face explore a sacramental\, imaginative vision within contexts of crime\, perception\, memory and love. In this collection\, Russell Thornton returns to the vital themes of intimacy and family\, loss\, fear and hope\, bringing to each poem the essential quality of a myth or incantation. Reverent and revealing\, within those familiar relationships he ushers in a connection with something transcendent: “A man has come floundering late in the night / to stand alone at the shore of a sleeping infant’s face.” \nThe poems capture life at the periphery\, whether describing homelessness or incarceration\, or even the universal experiences of aging and mortality\, love and fear of love\, all of which bring the speaker into a detached yet energized state of watching and waiting: “the door that was my grandfather into our passing lives / will arrive at a house where each of us is his own door / that opens on our first selves\, fundamental together.” \nWith intense lyricism\, Thornton displays a mastery of craft so complete as to be nearly invisible. While stunningly beautiful\, his imagery is also in such complete service to the deeper emotional resonance of each poem that it feels inevitable\, and contributes to making the collection deeply moving. \nAbout The Bridge from Day to Night by Governor General’s Award-winning poet David Zieroth: \nThe title poem in David Zieroth’s the bridge from day to night follows the speaker across the Second Narrows Bridge to North Vancouver\, a well-worn moment in a daily commute that opens a window into the sublime: “from the apex / of the bridge with traffic flying / I look directly into / their deepest clefts.” Such moments occur throughout the collection\, as Zieroth explores the resonance built from layers of such ordinary moments as they accumulate throughout a lifetime—indistinct and imperceptible as they occur\, but creating unseen undercurrents through memory and time. \nIn this temporal landscape\, the natural world becomes a touchstone\, both entangled in and standing apart from the speaker’s internal narrative: “I brought from that forming hour a / precise smell of foliage: funeral wreaths / bore an acid scent.” Shifting fluidly through time\, the speaker grows from a child to understand\, reflect and then outlive his parents. Finally\, the collection lights on the incongruities and contradictions in death: “still later I kick his flattened corpse / to the gutter\, and it skids on concrete / a broken valise\, weightless / on this segment of the journey.” \nWith his characteristic humour\, subtlety and ability to find transcendence in the everyday\, Zieroth traces the delicate strands connecting the most minute and familiar details to the most profound mysteries\, giving voice to the unknowable.\n.\n.\n.\nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries. \nThe event is all-ages.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/book-launch/
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SUMMARY:Elee Gardiner - Trauma Head
DESCRIPTION:Details TBA.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/elee-gardiner-trauma-head-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181207T190000
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SUMMARY:Gallery Booked
DESCRIPTION:Soft Opening for Andi Izaca’s Luciérnagas que ya no titilan/centellean: Glances of Resistance in Nicaragua. Official opening will be on December 14th at 7pm.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/gallery-booked/
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales - Shilo Jones and Charles Demers at VPL
DESCRIPTION:We will be selling books at the Vancouver Public Library Central Branch for their autumn literary series.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales-shilo-jones-and-charles-demers-at-vpl/
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SUMMARY:Gallery Opening: Luciérnagas que ya no titilan/centellean: Glances of Resistance in Nicaragua
DESCRIPTION:Opening for Luciérnagas que ya no titilan/centellean: Glances of Resistance in Nicaragua\, an art exhibit focused on the activism and new systems of civic participation emerging in the country as protests and state violence abound.  Showcasing creative and artistic mechanisms of resistance\,  showing that what happens at the local\, micro scale reflects what happens in larger spheres.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/gallery-opening-luciernagas-que-ya-no-titilancentellean-glances-of-resistance-in-nicaragua/
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SUMMARY:Poet's Corner December
DESCRIPTION:Our Next Poetry Reading\nYes\, we are having a reading in December! We can’t think of a better way to destress from the Holiday Season than by listening to some fine\, fine poets and poetry. We have three featured poets stepping up to the microphone on December 19! All three are out-of-towners\, so let’s welcome them and show our appreciation for their efforts to get here during a busy time of the year. We have to poet stalwarts and we’re introducing someone relatively new to the reading scene. Take a look at who’s coming and read their bio’s\, here. \nDecember’s First Featured Poet \nGary Geddes has written and edited close to 50 books of poetry\, fiction\, drama\, non-fiction\, criticism\, translation\, and anthologies and won a dozen national and international literary awards\, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Americas Region)\, the Lt.-Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence\, and the Gabriela Mistral Prize\, awarded simultaneously to Octavio Paz\, Vaclav Havel\, Ernesto Cardenal\, Rafael Alberti\, and Mario Benedetti. His non-fiction books include Letters from Managua\, Sailing Home\, Kingdom of Ten Thousand Things\, Drink the Bitter Root. and Medicine Unbundled: A Journey Through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care. His most recent books of poetry are Falsework\, Swimming Ginger\, What Does A House Want? and The Resumption of Play. Geddes has a PhD from U of T and has taught at Concordia\, Western Washington University\, and University of Missouri-St. Louis and has been writer-in-residence at U. of Alberta\, UBC’s Green College\, Ottawa U. and the Vancouver Public Library. He lives on Thetis Island\, BC with his wife\, the novelist Ann Eriksson. \nDecember’s Second Featured Poet\nHarold Rhenisch is the author of the critique of book culture\, “The Art of Haying: a Journey to Iceland\,” the sufic ghazals in “Two Minds\,” the spellcraft of “The Spoken World” and twenty-seven other works of fiction\, essays\, poetry and environmental writing. He works as a professional editor in Vernon and does reviews for the Ormsby Review. He won awards in the CBC Literary Contest in 2007 and 2017 and won the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize twice. He met John la Greca while he was Writer in Residence at Okanagan Regional Library. \nDecember’s Third Featured Poet\nJohn La Greca.  I’m 64. I’ve been a client of government social agencies since I was 13. I cracked up when I was 17. It wasn’t until 1980 that I got hospitalized in a psychiatric ward. I’ve been off and on Welfare ever since. I studied at Okanagan College\, McGill\, Guelph and UBC. Everything that came after\, including six months of homelessness\, can be seen in the light of an oppressed individual in the social welfare and psychiatric gulag that is present in Canada. I write because the rich and the beautiful and the connected have the monopoly on communication access and distribution.  Cultural marginalization cannot kill my essence. \n  \nBecause we will have three featured poets for this reading\, there will be a shortened Open Mic segment for this reading\, so if you want a chance to deliver one of your best poems\, get there early. Doors open at 6:40pm. See you all at December’s Poets Corner reading on Wednesday\, December 19.  We’re underway at 7:00 p.m. sharp.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/poetry-reading-tba-10/
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SUMMARY:BWSS and Writers' Exchange Raffle Draw!
DESCRIPTION:This will be our live-streamed draw of the winning tickets from the Battered Women’s Support Services and Writers’ Exchange Fundraiser! You can purchase tickets until 11:59PM on December 18th – more information here: https://www.facebook.com/events/348920512317841/
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/bwss-and-writers-exchange-raffle-draw/
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