Name: Jim Johnstone & Klara Du Plessis Book Launch
Start: 2024-11-10T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-11-10T17:00:00-04:00
Location: 2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3A3P9

Jim Johnstone & Klara Du Plessis Book Launch

𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 & 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 present and afternoon of poetry featuring 𝐉𝐢𝐦 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞 & 𝐊𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐃𝐮 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬.
Join us as poets Jim Johnstone and Klara Du Plessis read from and sign from their latest respective works 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓 (editor) and 𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒕-𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕.
Also scheduled to appear: Katherine Alexandra Harvery, Darren Bifford, Sarah Burgoyne, and T. Liem.
Admission is Free.
Refreshments will be served.
𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒:
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑨𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓
Compiled to celebrate ten years worth of limited edition chapbooks and broadsides, The Anstruther Reader tracks the evolution of Anstruther Press, one of Canada’s most prominent micropresses. Featuring notable authors such as Klara du Plessis, Tolu Oloruntoba, David Ly, Rebecca Salazar, David Barrick, Fawn Parker, and T. Liem, The Anstruther Reader makes a case for the press’s reputation as a launching pad for emerging and established poets alike, and spotlights its mandate to publish poetry that both pushes against and expands the boundaries of Canadian literature.
𝑷𝒐𝒔𝒕-𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕
The event represents the lyrical, but an attempt at defining the event endlessly defers meaning—poetry readings, death, belonging, the digital and— Post-Mortem of the Event is a cyclical archive that twists back to recorded readings of Klara du Plessis’s earlier Hell Light Flesh and leans forward to invoke a still unwritten manuscript. Here poetic composition encompasses audiovisual media, transcription, wave form visualization, and digital humanities and interdisciplinary methods. With the maturity of three previous collections, Du Plessis presents a brilliant expansion of her musical yet essayistic poetics.