Please join us for the launch of three new books:
Crowd Source, by Cecily Nicholson
Convivialities: Dialogues on Poetics, by Michael Nardone
Future Works, by Jeff Derksen
at Galerie Eli Kerr
4647 Boulevard Saint-Laurent
Montréal
Saturday, 31 May
Doors, books, and bar open at 6pm
Launch begins at 7pm
Espace art actuel
will join us
Lancement du nouveau n°140 de la revue ESPACE art actuel - « Souffle » / Launch of the new issue 140 of ESPACE art actuel magazine - « Breath »
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CECILY NICHOLSON is the author of five books, including From the Poplars, recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Wayside Sang, winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. Her collaborative practice spans municipal, artist-run centres, and community-based arts organizing, education, and advocacy. She is an assistant professor at the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia and the 2024/2025 Holloway Lecturer in the Practice of Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley.
https://talonbooks.com/books/crowd-source
MICHAEL NARDONE is a poet and editor based in Montréal. His recent and forthcoming works include: Convivialities (a book of dialogues), Aural Poetics (an edition on listening practices across the arts), Yellow Towel: A Score (a collaboration with Dana Michel), Border Tuner | Sintonizador Fronterizo (a monograph on Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, co-edited with Edgar Picazo Merino), the Documents on Expanded Poetics book series (co-edited with Nathan Brown), The Transatlantic Conversation (a translation of Abigail Lang’s monograph on contemporary French and US poetry), and The Ritualites (a book of poems). Beginning in 2024, he is a writer-in-residence at the SETI Institute.
https://talonbooks.com/books/convivialities
JEFF DERKSEN is a poet, critic, and professor who lives in Vancouver and Vienna. His poetry books include The Vestiges, Transnational Muscle Cars, and Down Time (Winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize). His critical books include After Euphoria, Annihilated Time: Poetry and Other Politics, and the folio How High is the City, How Deep is Our Love. He works on artistic research projects with the collective Urban Subjects: their books include The Militant Image Reader, Momentarily: Learning from Mega Events, and Autogestion: Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade. He was a founding member of both the Kootenay School of Writing and Artspeak Gallery. Derksen works at Simon Fraser University. He lives in Vancouver and Vienna.
https://talonbooks.com/books/future-works
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