Book Launch: A Child's Seance
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Join us at Shelf Life Books for the book launch of Weyman Chan's newest collection of poetry, A Child's Seance. The evening will feature readings from Weyman Chan, as well as local poets Josephine LoRe and Jun-long Lee.
About the Book: A Child’s Seance begins when a brother and sister attempt to contact the spirit of their dead mother. As they play, their shared grief explodes into a big bang of questions about the universe’s smeared complexity.
About the authors:
Weyman Chan resides in Moh’kinstsis/Calgary. His newly released seventh book of poetry, A Child’s Seance (Talonbooks, Vancouver, 2026), explores themes of mother-loss, communication with the dead, and act of memorialization through writing. Recipient of the Writers Trust Latner-Griffin Poetry Prize in 2021, he was also a finalist for the 2008 Governor General’s Award for poetry.
Jun-long Lee is a poet, visual artist, and filmmaker. He is the author of Abode (Athabasca University Press), which was nominated for The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. His poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, The Malahat Review, Grain, Riddle Fence, Conjunctions, Jubilat, and elsewhere. He is based in Calgary (Moh’kinstsis) on Treaty 7 lands.
Josephine LoRe’s words have been read live and in global zoom-rooms, put to music, danced, integrated into visual art, and published in literary journals and anthologies in fifteen countries and five languages. Thrice nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize and recently appointed Poet Laureate of Calgary’s Bow Valley Ranche Historical Society, Josephine has four solo publications, and recently published Late to the Sky with co-pilot Charles S. Cobean.
About the Book: A Child’s Seance begins when a brother and sister attempt to contact the spirit of their dead mother. As they play, their shared grief explodes into a big bang of questions about the universe’s smeared complexity.
About the authors:
Weyman Chan resides in Moh’kinstsis/Calgary. His newly released seventh book of poetry, A Child’s Seance (Talonbooks, Vancouver, 2026), explores themes of mother-loss, communication with the dead, and act of memorialization through writing. Recipient of the Writers Trust Latner-Griffin Poetry Prize in 2021, he was also a finalist for the 2008 Governor General’s Award for poetry.
Jun-long Lee is a poet, visual artist, and filmmaker. He is the author of Abode (Athabasca University Press), which was nominated for The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. His poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, The Malahat Review, Grain, Riddle Fence, Conjunctions, Jubilat, and elsewhere. He is based in Calgary (Moh’kinstsis) on Treaty 7 lands.
Josephine LoRe’s words have been read live and in global zoom-rooms, put to music, danced, integrated into visual art, and published in literary journals and anthologies in fifteen countries and five languages. Thrice nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize and recently appointed Poet Laureate of Calgary’s Bow Valley Ranche Historical Society, Josephine has four solo publications, and recently published Late to the Sky with co-pilot Charles S. Cobean.
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