Gillian Sze Book Launch

Sun Nov 02 2025 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm UTC-05:00

2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3A3P9 | Montreal

Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore
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Gillian Sze Book Launch
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π‹π’π›π«πšπ’π«π’πž 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐑𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 and 𝐄𝐂𝐖 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 present a Book Launch for 𝑨𝒏 π‘Άπ’“π’‚π’π’ˆπ’†, 𝑨 π‘Ίπ’šπ’π’π’‚π’ƒπ’π’† by 𝐆𝐒π₯π₯𝐒𝐚𝐧 π’π³πž.
Join us as poet 𝐆𝐒π₯π₯𝐒𝐚𝐧 π’π³πž reads from, signs, and discusses her latest book of poetry, 𝑨𝒏 π‘Άπ’“π’‚π’π’ˆπ’†, 𝑨 π‘Ίπ’šπ’π’π’‚π’ƒπ’π’†.
Admission is free.
Refreshments will be served.
π€ππŽπ”π“ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊:
he latest book by Gillian Sze, author of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award–winning book π‘Έπ’–π’Šπ’†π’• π‘΅π’Šπ’ˆπ’‰π’• π‘»π’‰π’Šπ’π’Œ.
This prosimetrical work is a meditation on motherhood, language, and art. The central speaker witnesses the earliest utterances of her child and launches into a poetic inquiry of words themselves, asking, How to measure one’s mouth by its words? The speaker seeks an answer amidst the language that surrounds her β€” words misspoken, mispronounced, remembered, unwritten β€” and, in doing so, struggles with signification and significance.
Each prose poem in the five-part collection darts between the many meanings of β€œfit” β€” as in β€œa sudden burst of emotion” or β€œto be the right size and shape,” and the archaic β€œfytte” (a section of a poem). A text becomes an open mouth, a square day of a calendar, or a bare fragment of a narrative. The final section of the book is an intimate and ekphrastic engagement with the work of Danish painter Vilhelm HammershΓΈi. Drawn to HammershΓΈi’s paintings of the empty rooms of his apartment, the speaker recognizes a familiar space of art’s insistence.
𝑨𝒏 π‘Άπ’“π’‚π’π’ˆπ’†, 𝑨 π‘Ίπ’šπ’π’π’‚π’ƒπ’π’† details a period of maternal and artistic transformation.
π€ππŽπ”π“ 𝐓𝐇𝐄 π€π”π“π‡πŽπ‘:
Gillian Sze is the author of multiple poetry books and picture books. Her book of poems and essays, π‘Έπ’–π’Šπ’†π’• π‘΅π’Šπ’ˆπ’‰π’• π‘»π’‰π’Šπ’π’Œ, received the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She lives in Montreal, QC, where she teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University.
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