HOUSE OF ANANSI POETRY BASH with Michael Crummey, Baziju, Suzanne Buffam and Steven Heighton
Hosted by David O’Meara
Heighton has an unfailing sense of rhythm and sound, and his poems surprise with their intelligence and vividness.
We celebrate Poetry Month and another year of stellar poetry from House of Anansi Press with four of the most anticipated collections of the year:
Twenty years after the publication of his debut, Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems brings together selections from Michael Crummey’s first four books of poetry with a significant offering of new work.
Baziju is the shared voice of poets Roo Borson and Kim Maltman. Box Kite is their collaboratively written sequence of prose poems, a meditation on the way we travel between places and between times, and how words and ideas travel between languages.
Not a narrative. Not an essay. Not a shopping list. Not a song. Not a diary. Not an etiquette manual. Not a confession. Not a prayer. Not a secret letter sent through the silent Palace hallways before dawn. Making a daybook of oblivion, Suzanne Buffam’s A Pillow Book leads the reader on a darkly comic tour through the dim-lit valley of fitful sleep.
Governor General’s Literary Award finalist and bestselling author Steven Heighton returns with The Waking Comes Late, a collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us.
Books available for purchase at every event: Proceeds support our free children’s literacy programs.