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Podcast Episode 19
12:00pm

Spotlight on Arsenal Pulp Press

Featuring Sachiko Murakami and Jillian Christmas
Presented with VerseFest / Hosted by Nina Jane Drystek

Spotlight on Arsenal Pulp Press

Featuring Sachiko Murakami and Jillian Christmas
Presented with VerseFest / Hosted by Nina Jane Drystek
30
Friday
Oct
2020
12:00pm
Jillian Christmas
Sachiko Murakami

Poet Nina Jane Drystek hosts conversations with two incredible poets, both published by Vancouver’s Arsenal Pulp Press.

 

Render is Sachiko Murakami's intimate and unflinching poetic memoir. In it,  she travels the non-linear path of addiction to recovery, how it shifts over time, and what happens when it is translated through poetry. Looking beyond the straightforward, happily-ever-after narrative, Murakami wades through the aftermath of her addiction and questions what happens to trauma when it is put down on the page - and all the ways in which it can be rendered.

 

In The Gospel of Breaking, Jillian Christmas extracts from family history, queer lineage, and the political landscape of a racialized life to create a rich, softly defiant collection of poems.

Christmas draws a circle around the things she calls "holy": the family line that cannot find its root but survived to fill the skies with radiant flesh; the body, broken and unbroken and broken and new again; the lover lost, the friend lost, and the loss itself; and the hands that hold them all with brilliant, tender care.

 

A limited number of signed books are available from our friends at Perfect Books.

 

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