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Two Currents Meet in Ottawa: Mekyle Ali Qadir Launches Crescendo at Octopus Books July 7, 2026 – Posted in: Highlights, Poetry, Readings & Excerpts

Some launches announce a book; others announce a voice. The launch of Crescendo, Mekyle Ali Qadir’s debut poetry collection with Mawenzi House on June 29, 2026, at the Mauril-Bélanger Social Innovation Workshop (The Atelier) in Ottawa was firmly the latter. The evening drew more than forty readers, writers, scholars, family and friends, with thirty copies of the collection finding new shelves by night’s end. Mekyle opened with a reading of the collection’s introduction, “Two Currents,”…

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Where the River Finds Her Voice: Saraswoti Lamichhane Launches Karaikhola Flows at Audrey’s Books, Edmonton June 3, 2026 – Posted in: Highlights, Readings & Excerpts

There are book launches, and then there are evenings that feel like the land itself called them into being. The launch of Karaikhola Flows — Saraswoti Lamichhane’s debut poetry collection with Mawenzi House at Edmonton’s beloved Audrey’s Books was unmistakably the latter. Held at one of Canada’s most storied independent bookstores, the event brought together Edmonton’s literary community to celebrate a collection that has been a long time coming. Karaikhola Flows (Mawenzi House, 2026) is…

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Book Launch of “The Alphabet of Aliens” by Sabayasachi Nag November 25, 2025

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,…

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Book Launch for “A Quiet Disappearance” by Rabindranath Maharaj April 1, 2025

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…

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Book Launch: Understan by Gavin Barrett July 10, 2020

Gavin Barrett will be reading from his poetry collection, Understan. There will be live music, and a Q&A with Meenakshi Alimchandani. In addition, 5 winners who register on Eventbrite will win one copy each of Understan. Winners will be chosen through a random draw and must have either a Canadian or United States mailing address. Register here. About the book: Across space and time, crossing continents and decades, in this volume the poet uses memory…

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