House of Anansi Poetry Bash

With Karen Solie, Kayla Czaga and Michael Redhill

Hosted by David O'Meara

In Person Poetry

Admission

Free

Sunday

Apr , 2019

5:00pm

Eastern

The Manx Pub

370 Elgin St. • Ottawa

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Karen Solie Kayla Czaga Michael Redhill · Photo by Amanda Withers

Funny, smart, sophisticated, guileless: reading Czaga is like drinking a glass of water in a desert.

Elizabeth Bachinsky

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:

The Caiplie Caves by Griffin Poetry Prize winner Karen Solie, Dunk Tank by Gerald Lampert Memorial Award winner Kayla Czaga, and Twitch Force by Giller Prize winner Michael Redhill.

PLEASE NOTE THAT MICHAEL REDHILL IS NO LONGER ABLE TO ATTEND THIS EVENT. David O'Meara will share a selection from Twitch Force in his place.

Books available for purchase at every event: Proceeds support our free children’s literacy programs.

The Authors

Karen Solie

Karen Solie grew up in southwest Saskatchewan. Her five previous collections of poetry–Short Haul Engine, Modern and Normal, Pigeon, The Road In Is Not the Same Road Out, and The Caiplie Caves–have won the Dorothy Livesay Award, Pat Lowther Award, Trillium Poetry Prize, and the Griffin Prize, and been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. A 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, she teaches half-time for the University of St Andrews in Scotland and lives the rest of the year in Canada.

Kayla Czaga

Kayla Czaga is the author of one previous collection of poems, For Your Safety Please Hold On (Nightwood Editions, 2014), and the chapbook Enemy of the People (Anstruther Press, 2015). Her work has been awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Canadian Authors Association’s Emerging Writer Award and has been nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the Debut-litzer. She lives in Victoria, B.C.

Michael Redhill

Michael Redhill is the author of five collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Light-crossing (2001, House of Anansi Press), and seven novels, some of which were written under the pseudonym Inger Ash Wolfe. His 2006 novel,Consolation, reimagined Toronto’s mid-nineteenth century and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His most recent novel, Bellevue Square, won the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize. He edited and published Brick: A Literary Journal from 1998 to 2007, and continues to teach as well as edit. He lives in Toronto and has two sons.