House of Anansi Poetry Bash

with Mikko Harvey, Emma Healey and AF Moritz

Presented in partnership with Plan 99

In Person Poetry

Admission

Free

Saturday

Apr , 2018

5:00pm

Eastern

Manx Pub

370 Elgin St. • Ottawa

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His readers, his admiring peers and his reviewers have long felt this, but it has become so obvious that it must finally be said: A. F. Moritz is one of the true master poets of his generation.

Globe and Mail

We celebrate Poetry Month and another year of stellar poetry from House of Anansi Press with a taste of three of the most anticipated collections of the year:

Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit by Mikko Harvey, Stereoblind by Emma Healey, and; The Sparrow: Selected Poems by A.F. Moritz

The Authors

A. F. Moritz

A. F. Moritz’s most recent books from House of Anansi Press are Great Silent Ballad (2024), As Far as You Know (2020) and The Sparrow: Selected Poems (2018). Three of his books have been finalists for the Governor General’s Award; The Sentinel won the Griffin Poetry Prize. His work overall has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other recognitions. A.F. Moritz was Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2019 to 2023.

Emma Healey

Emma Healey’s first book of poems, Begin with the End in Mind, was published by ARP Books in 2012. Her poems and essays have been featured in places like the Los Angeles Review of Books, the FADER, the Hairpin, Real Life, the National Post, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, the Walrus, Toronto Life, and Canadian Art. She was poetry critic at the Globe and Mail (2014–2016) and is a regular contributor to the music blog Said the Gramophone. She was the recipient of the Irving Layton Award for Creative Writing in both 2010 and 2013, a National Magazine Award nominee in 2015, and a finalist for the K.M. Hunter award in 2016.

Mikko Harvey

Mikko Harvey received the 2017 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award, and his poems appear in places such as Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Lemon Hound, and Maisonneuve. He attended Vassar College and Ohio State University, and he is currently an associate poetry editor for Fairy Tale Review. This is his first book.