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Book Launch of “The Alphabet of Aliens” by Sabayasachi Nag

Benares Historic House 1507 Clarkson Rd N, Mississauga

Join us for an enlightening and thought-provoking event as we celebrate the book launch of "The Alphabet of Aliens" by Sabyasachi Nag. This event promises to be an engaging evening of literature and dialogue, featuring a reading by Sabyasachi, followed by an insightful conversation with Mary Ellen Koroscil. Books will be on sale Location: Benares Historic House The dreamlike, eerily atmospheric prose poems in this collection interrogate margins and melt points of migrancy. Intensely personal, funny, enchanting,…

Book Launch for “A Quiet Disappearance” by Rabindranath Maharaj

Ben McNally Books 108 Queen St E, Toronto

Join us for an author reading as we celebrate the launch of A Quiet Disappearance by Rabindranath Maharaj. The stories in Rabindranath Maharaj’s collection A Quiet Disappearance consider the briefness of life, not only its final outcome but the losses accumulated over the years. The characters in these stories are older men and women from the Caribbean islands who confront their pasts, with regrets and wonder as they discover subtle epiphanies. Rabindranath Maharaj is an award-winning author…

Poetry Reading: Pamela Mordecai & Shani Mootoo

Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W, Toronto

Find your poetry fix at our Stage in the Park and hear two of Canada’s best poets with Shani Mootoo and Pamela Mordecai readings from their poetry collections. Mordecai’s de book of Joseph, the third book in her epic trilogy based on characters and stories from the Bible pays tribute to her Jamaican culture and the vernacular. Mootoo’s Cane | Fire is a memoir in verse, following the narrator’s personal journey from Ireland to San Fernando to Canada, elevating the story with…