House of Anansi Poetry Bash

with AF Moritz, Clémence Dumas-Côté, Farah Ghafoor and Karen Solie.

In Person Streaming Poetry Free

General Admission

Free

Wednesday

Apr , 2025

7:00pm

Eastern

St. John the Evangelist

154 Somerset Street West • Ottawa

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A. F. Moritz · Photo by A.F. Moritz Clémence Dumas-Côté · Photo by Katya Konioukhova Farah Ghafoor · Photo by Amira Chen Karen Solie

Farah Ghafoor’s highly-anticipated debut is as expansive and epic as it is exacting … Shadow Price is a stalwart reminder of how much we have already lost to capitalism, how much we still might lose, and how we might come to terms with this disrepair.

Sanna Wani

We celebrate Poetry Month and another year of stellar poetry from House of Anansi Press with performances from four stellar collections:

Great Silent Ballad by AF Moritz, The Seated Woman by Clémence Dumas-Côté (translated by E.S. Taillon), Shadow Price by Farah Ghafoor, and Wellwater by Karen Solie.

PLEASE NOTE: Free Tickets are available to attend in-person. This event will also Livestream from this page.

Books are available from our friends at Perfect Books.

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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.

Clémence Dumas-Côté

Clémence Dumas-Côté was born in Montreal in 1986. She studied acting at the National Theatre School of Canada and holds a master's degree in creative writing. She is the author of two poetry books, L'alphabet du don (2017) and La femme assise (2019), and the novel Glu (2022).

Farah Ghafoor

Farah Ghafoor is an award-winning poet living on the traditional territory of the Anishnabeg, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, and the Wendat peoples. Her work was awarded the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, is taught in university courses, and published in The Walrus, the Fiddlehead, Room, and elsewhere. Raised in New Brunswick and southern Ontario, Ghafoor now works in Tkaronto (Toronto) as a financial analyst.

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.