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Book*hug Press and The City & The City Books invite you to Book*hug's Fall 2024 Hamilton Launch! Celebrating the launch of four new titles including Walking and Stealing by Stephen Cain, These Songs I Know By Heart by Erin Brubacher, Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea by Liz Worth, and Toxemia by Christine McNair. Thursday, November 7, 2024
7:00 - 9:00 pm ET
The City & The City Books, 181 Ottawa St. N., Hamilton, ON
Admission is free. All are welcome to attend.
Books will be available for purchase, and, of course, the authors will be signing!
Praise for Walking and Stealing:
“Equal parts logophilic love song and searing post-punk lament, Stephen Cain’s Walking and Stealing is a Molotov cocktail for the city dweller’s soul. With playful constraints and sprawling seriality, Cain takes us on psychogeographic drifts and dérives, sends us spinning through allusive urban thickets, and leads us on unapologetic intertextual joyrides through a city and a world on fire. This sauntering tome is whip-smart and shady AF—a semiotic feast at every turn.” —Kate Siklosi, author of Selvage
Praise for These Songs I Know By Heart:
“One of the quietly radical things about These Songs I Know By Heart is the essential goodness of its characters. No forced conflict, no traditional antagonist, no plumbing the fundamental ugliness of its protagonist. What emerges is something more rare and profound: a deeply humane and compassionate compendium of encounter and observation meditating on friendship, motherhood, art making, and home.” —Jordan Tannahill, Scotiabank Giller Prize–shortlisted author of The Listeners
Praise for Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea:
“‘My first prophecy was a poem,’ writes Liz Worth, conjuring the self in a state where the past portends an uncertain future. At this crossroads, personal experience informs universal truth, and Inside Every Dream, a Raging Sea unfolds like a spell cast to blur the line between legerdemain and the slow burn of daily life. A haunting, illusory read.” —Jim Johnstone, author of The King of Terrors
Praise for Toxemia:
“Toxemia is simultaneously a history in/of medicine, a feminist rallying cry, and a raw but scalpel-sharp work of poetry. A genre-blurring text that boldly bloodies lines between poetic and reproductive bodies, between archive and lyric, between manifesto and song, between autoethnography and free verse. A bodypoem flex.” —Sarah de Leeuw, author of Lot
Bios:
STEPHEN CAIN is the author of six full-length collections of poetry and a dozen chapbooks, including False Friends, I Can Say Interpellation, Zoom, Etc Phrases, American Standard/ Canada Dry, Torontology, and dyslexicon. His academic publications include The Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages (co-written with Tim Conley) and a critical edition of bpNichol’s early long poems: bp: beginnings. He lives in Toronto where he teaches avant-garde and Canadian literature at York University.
ERIN BRUBACHER is a multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of the poetry collection In the small hours: Thirty-nine months & seven days and co-author of the hybrid, performance-based book 7th Cousins: An Automythography. Her award-winning work in theatre has taken her to contexts including the National Arts Centre (Ottawa), the Aga Khan Museum (Toronto), Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), Theater der Welt (Germany), and the Edinburgh International Festival (UK). She is driven by the desire to make meeting places: for her, art is a framework that serves to gather people who might not otherwise be in a literal or figurative room together. Erin lived in ten cities before returning to Toronto, where she makes a home with her husband and four children.
LIZ WORTH is a poet, novelist, and nonfiction writer. She is a two-time nominee for the ReLit Award for Poetry for her books The Truth Is Told Better This Way and No Work Finished Here: Rewriting Andy Warhol. Her first book, Treat Me Like Dirt, was the first of its kind to provide an in-depth history of Southern Ontario’s first wave punk movement. Her other works also include Amphetamine Heart, PostApoc, and The Mouth is a Coven. Her writing has appeared in Chatelaine, FLARE, Prism, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and Broken Pencil, among others. Liz is a professional tarot reader and lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
CHRISTINE MCNAIR is the author of Charm (winner of the 2018 Archibald Lampman Award) and Conflict (finalist for the City of Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and the ReLit Award for Poetry). She was also nominated for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her chapbook pleasantries and other misdemeanours was shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. Her work has appeared in sundry literary journals and anthologies. McNair lives in Ottawa where she works as a book doctor.
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The City & The City Books, 181 Ottawa St N, Hamilton, ON L8H 3Z4, Canada,Hamilton, Ontario
