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SUMMARY:Gibsons Library: Memoir and Poetry Reading: Daniela Elza and Catherine Elizabeth McNeil
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading with Daniela Elza and Catherine Elizabeth McNeil on the topics of belonging\, displacement\, relocation\, home. \nDaniela will read from “Is This an Illness or an Accident?” (Caitlin Press\, 2025) and SCAR/CITY (McGill-Queen’s University Press\, 2025). Catherine will read poetry from emily and elspeth which follows two women and their unique paths to love and each other in San Miguel\, Mexico\, Hardy island and Vancouver\, BC and from under the influence about a poet growing up in the seventies and the amazing possibilities of living free of limiting ghosts into present unhampered touch. She will also read from her new manuscript the cartography of belonging about relocation\, belonging\, displacement and home.
URL:https://coastculture.com/event/gibsons-library-memoir-and-poetry-reading-daniela-elza-and-catherine-elizabeth-mcneil/
LOCATION:Gibsons & District Public Library\, 470 Fletcher Rd S\, Gibsons\, BC\, V0N 1V0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Literary
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SUMMARY:PR - Powell River Library: Poetry Circle
DESCRIPTION:Last Thursday. A shared creative space for poetry with Amira Abouelalla. A place for listening\, connecting\, and being inspired…and of course\, POETRY! Whether you are someone who writes poetry\, reads poetry or even thinks in poetry\, this is an open place for you to share. Drop in.
URL:https://coastculture.com/event/pr-powell-river-library-poetry-circle/2026-05-28/
LOCATION:Powell River Library\, 100-6975 Alberni St\, Powell River\, BC\, V8A 2B8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Literary
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SUMMARY:Sechelt Library: Author Event with Theresa Kishkan
DESCRIPTION:At 23\, Theresa Kishkan met an artist who became obsessed with her. She was young\, she was flattered\, and the situation quickly overwhelmed her. \nDecades later\, while sorting old correspondence\, she was taken back to those early days and began\, at last\, to write about her relationship with the now-deceased artist. The Art of Looking Back is a meditation on the male gaze\, on reclaiming one’s younger self\, and on agency: how we lose it\, how we find it again. This poetic memoir asks questions about older men and younger women and girls\, and the persistence of that dynamic in art. \nAbout the author:\nTheresa Kishkan lives near Ruby Lake with her husband\, poet John Pass\, in a house they built in the early 1980s and where they raised their 3 children. She has published 16 books\, most recently Euclid’s Orchard\, The Weight of the Heart and Blue Portugal and Other Essays. \nFREE but registration required. Please register on the Sechelt Library website or gives a us a call at 604-885-3260. Talewind Books will have books available for purchase at the event.
URL:https://coastculture.com/event/sechelt-library-author-event-with-theresa-kishkan/
LOCATION:Sechelt Library\, 5797 Cowrie St\, Sechelt\, BC\, V0N 3A0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Literary
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SUMMARY:Davis Bay Hall: Spring Author Readings
DESCRIPTION:The dedicated authors from the Mini One-Day Writer’s Retreat will be reading from their manuscripts at the SCWES May Meeting\, Sunday\, May 31st\, 2-4:30 pm\, featuring Joan Fletcher’s launch of her scifi novel\, “The Data Raiders.”
URL:https://coastculture.com/event/davis-bay-hall-spring-author-readings/
LOCATION:Davis Bay Community Hall\, 5123 Davis Bay Rd\, Sechelt BC
CATEGORIES:Literary
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