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Tue Oct 14 • 6:30pm • Club Saw
Bywords John Newlove Poetry Awards
PLUS Margo LaPierre, Domina Eliahou, Stuart Ross and The Archibald Lampman Award
"Bitter angst and dark irony riddle this poem and the poem knows it. This is why the twist of something tender at the end is so welcome"
— Concetta Principe, judge for the 2025 John Newlove Poetry Award on the winning poem. 

Upcoming Events

Tue Oct 14 • 6:30pm • Club Saw
Bywords John Newlove Poetry Awards
PLUS Margo LaPierre, Domina Eliahou, Stuart Ross and The Archibald Lampman Award
Wed Oct 22 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
On Wholeness
with Quill Christie-Peters
Wed Oct 22 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
The Trial of Katterfelto
with Michael Redhill
Thu Oct 23 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
On the Ground
with Brian Stewart
Thu Oct 23 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
What Dreams May Come
with Sara Peters and Mona Awad
Fri Oct 24 • 6:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
One Life to Live
with Marc Bendavid, Susie Taylor and Shani Mootoo
Fri Oct 24 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Playlist
with Ivan Coyote
Sat Oct 25 • 11:30am • Library and Archives Canada
The Explorer’s Gene
with Alex Hutchinson
Sat Oct 25 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
John Candy: A Life in Comedy
with Paul Myers
Sat Oct 25 • 2:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
The Science of Pets
with Jay Ingram
Sat Oct 25 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
More than Human
with Kendra Coulter, Thomas Wharton and Sibylle Grimbert
Sat Oct 25 • 6:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Displaced
with Zeina Sleiman, Aaron Kreuter and Brian Thomas Isaac
Sat Oct 25 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Enshittification
with Cory Doctorow
Sun Oct 26 • 11:30am • Library and Archives Canada
An Accidental Villain
with Linden MacIntyre
Sun Oct 26 • 1:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
This Love
with Ziyad Saadi and Tracey Lindbeg
Sun Oct 26 • 2:30pm • Library and Archives Canada
Pick a Colour
with Souvankham Thammavongsa
Sun Oct 26 • 4:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Now and Then
with Elaine Feeney and Eimear McBride
Sun Oct 26 • 6:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
You Will Not Kill Our Imagination
with Saeed Teebi
Sun Oct 26 • 8:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
Human Rights in a Fractured World
with Alex Neve
Wed Oct 29 • 7:00pm • Knox Presbyterian
Final Orbit
with Chris Hadfield
Mon Nov 10 • 7:00pm • St. John the Evangelist
Poetry Cabaret
with Billy Ray Belcourt, Canisia Lubrin and katherena vermette
Wed Nov 12 • 7:00pm • Knox Presbyterian
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan
with Lyse Doucet
Wed Nov 19 • 7:00pm • Library and Archives Canada
We Breed Lions
with Rick Westhead
Tue Nov 25 • 7:00pm • Christ Church Cathedral
The Smiling Land
with Alan Doyle
Thu Nov 27 • 7:00pm • Knox Presbyterian
Against the Grain
with Terry O'Reilly
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