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Join us for the launch of SKIN, by Catherine Bush! In conversation with Martha Baillie.Join acclaimed writer Catherine Bush to celebrate the launch of Skin , her first collection of stories with writer Martha Baillie as on-stage interviewer and a short film, inspired by the title story, by experimental filmmaker Mike Hoolboom.
In Skin , Catherine Bush plunges into the vortex of all that shapes us. Summoning relationships between the human and more-than-human, she explores a world where touch and intimacy are both desirable and fraught.Ranging from the realistic to the speculative, Bush’s stories tackle the condition of our restless, unruly world amidst the tumult of viruses, climate change, and ecological crises. Here, she brings to life unusual and perplexing intimacies: a man falls in love with the wind; a substitute teacher’s behaviour with a student brings unforeseen risks; a woman becomes fixated on offering foot washes to strangers.Bold, vital, and unmistakably of the moment, Skin gives a charged and animating voice to the question of how we face the world and how, in the process, we discover tenderness and allow ourselves to be transformed.
Catherine Bush is the author of five novels, including the widely acclaimed Blaze Island , Accusation , and The Rules of Engagement . Her nonfiction has appeared in numerous publications including The Globe and Mail , The New York Times Magazine , Brick and Best Canadian Essays . She is a professor at the University of Guelph and was a 2024 Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society.
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