# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Toronto book launch with Conor Mc Donnell and Paul Vermeersch
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join Toronto poets Conor Mc Donnell and Paul Vermeersch to celebrate their newest books at Queen Books on January 15, 2026!

The event begins at 7 p.m. and is open to the public.

About the poets and their books:

⚫️What We Know So Far Is …by Conor Mc Donnell (Wolsak & Wynn, 2025):

The Irish word for shadow, “scáth,” is also our word for shelter.

In a powerful long poem that captures the disquiet of our age with cinematic language and imagery, Conor Mc Donnell’s What We Know So Far Is … harkens back to the previous century in its daring. Drawing from his Irish heritage, his experience as a pediatrician and many other sources, Mc Donnell has created a work that echoes the scope of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and Hart Crane’s The Bridge. Both ecstatic and challenging, the lines of the poem are filled with allusions and references, with biology shading into history into cultures both ancient and contemporary, where words are predators and “memes disseminate cultural-genes.” Through it all runs Mc Donnell’s fascination with language, ever shifting, beguiling, mutating, virus-like. In these questioning, DNA-like lines, Mc Donnell shows us how to unmake and remake our understanding of the world.

Dr. Conor Mc Donnell is a poet and physician at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. He is the author of two collections of poems (most recently, This Insistent List) and three chapbooks. His poetry has appeared in various Canadian and international publications as well as noted medical journals such as JAMA and CMAJ. He is an associate professor at the University of Toronto and editor in chief of Case Repertory, a Narrative-Based Medicine Lab publication that seeks to engage and promote the voice of the patient in collaboration with their health-carers. He is a frequently invited international lecturer on pediatric perioperative care, error prevention and opioid stewardship, and he is current vice-president of the Canadian Pediatric Anesthesia Society.

Learn more:
https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/what-we-know-so-far-is

⚫️ NMLCT: Poems by Paul Vermeersch (ECW Press, 2025)

Fables and fairy tales collide with virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and monstrous myths in a world where no one knows what to believe. In his eighth book of poems, Paul Vermeersch responds to the increasing difficulty of knowing what is real and what isn’t, what is our genuine experience and what is constructed for us by The Algorithm. In a “post-truth” society rife with simulations, misinformation, and computer-generated hallucinations, these poems explore the relationship between the synthetic and the authentic as they raise hope for the possibility of escape from MCHNCT (Machine City) to NMLCT (Animal City), where the promise of “real life” still exists.

Paul Vermeersch is a poet, multimedia artist, and literary editor. His last book of poetry was Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995–2020. A professor of creative writing and publishing at Sheridan College, he also edits his own imprint, Buckrider Books, for Wolsak & Wynn Publishers. He lives in Toronto, ON.

Learn more: 
https://ecwpress.com/products/nmlct
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, nonprofit, health-wellness, fine-arts, artificial-intelligence
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 54

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Toronto
- **state**: ON
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: Queen Books
- **lat**: 43.66076
- **long**: -79.34217
- **full address**: Queen Books, 914 Queen Street East,Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Toronto book launch with Conor Mc Donnell and Paul Vermeersch being held?
  - **A:** Toronto book launch with Conor Mc Donnell and Paul Vermeersch takes place on Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm at Queen Books, 914 Queen Street East,Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Toronto book launch with Conor Mc Donnell and Paul Vermeersch?
  - **A:** Toronto book launch with Conor Mc Donnell and Paul Vermeersch is organized by River Street Writing.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Toronto book launch with Conor Mc Donnell and Paul Vermeersch is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Toronto, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. With 50+ people already showing interest, this is clearly an event worth adding to your calendar - don't miss out.

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