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Wolsak & Wynn and Shelf Life Books invite you to the Calgary launch of Blood Belies by Ellen Chang-Richardson. Hosted by Ryanne Kap with local guest poet Samantha Jones, the evening will feature readings and a moderated Q&A.The event is free and all are welcome to attend. Books will be available for purchase at the event and, yes, author will be signing!
Accessibility Info: We are on the #3, #17 and #449 bus route, and a 10 minute walk from the 4th Street SW train stop downtown. Street parking is free after 6pm. Our store is ground level with no stairs or inclines. Our washrooms are non-gendered, one with wheelchair accessibility and one with a changing table. Please contact us at 403-265-1033 or [email protected] with any questions or requests.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In this arresting debut collection Ellen Chang-Richardson writes of race, of injury and of belonging in stunning poems that fade in and out of the page. History swirls through this collection like a summer storm, as they bring their father’s, and their own, stories to light, writing against the background of the institutional racism of Canada, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the head tax and more. From Taiwan in the early 1990s to Oakville in the late 1990s, Toronto in the 2010s, Cambodia in the mid-1970s and Ottawa in the 2020s, Blood Belies takes the reader through time, asking them what it means to look the way we do? To carry scars? To persevere? To hope?
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS
FEATURED READER: Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent, currently living on the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg. The author/co-author of six poetry chapbooks, their writing has appeared in journals and anthologies across Turtle Island including Augur, The Ex-Puritan, The Fiddlehead, Grain, third coast magazine and Watch Your Head. They are an editorial member of Room magazine, a poetry editor for long con magazine, the co-founder of Riverbed Reading Series and a member of the poetry collective VII. Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn) is their debut collection.
GUEST READER: Samantha Jones (she/her) is an earth scientist, writer, and copyeditor based in Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary), Treaty 7 territory. Her words appear in THIS, Grain, CV2, Room, GeoHumanities, and elsewhere. She is an alumna of the Banff Centre Spring Writers Retreat and is a PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of Calgary. Her visual poetry chapbook, Site Orientation, is available from the Blasted Tree and her debut full-length collection, Attic Rain, will be published by NeWest Press in 2024.
HOST: Ryanne Kap is a Chinese-Canadian writer from Strathroy, Ontario. Their work has been featured in Augur, Canthius, Grain, long con, and elsewhere. They are the author of three chapbooks: goodbye, already (Frog Hollow Press, 2021), 3 Days, 3 Months, 3 Years (Block Party, 2023), and failed (after)lives (The Blasted Tree, 2024). Ryanne is a PhD student in English and creative writing at the University of Calgary and the Managing Editor of The Ex-Puritan. You can find them online at www.ryannekap.com or on Twitter and Instagram @ryannekap.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
1302 4 St SW #100, Calgary, AB, Canada, Alberta T2R 0X8
