Book Launch: lisan al'asfour
Schedule
Wed Dec 28 2022 at 07:00 pm
Location
Knox Presbyterian Church Ottawa | Ottawa, ON
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Please join us for the Ottawa launch of Natalie Hanna's first full length collection of poetry, lisan al'asfour (ARP Books, Winnipeg).Location: Geneva Hall, Knox Presbyterian Chuch, 120 Lisgar Ave, Ottawa
Date: December 28, 2022
Time: 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Hosted by the peerless Ellen Chang-Richardson, this event will feature special guests Manahil Bandukwala, Conyer Clayton, and Nathanael Larochette fresh from touring. Each of these poets bring special gifts to the stage, and we are grateful to them for coming together at this busy time of the year.
The muscial score for this book and event are composed and performed by Jennifer Pederson and Liam Burke. Pederson has worked to develop musical piano themes in response to the manuscript since its synthesis, and Burke has brought his refined ear to create the guitar accompaniment.
Geneva Hall, long time pre-pandemic home of Ottawa's VERSeFEST, is an accessible location with wheelchair ramp entrance from Elgin Street and accessible washrooms. Guests will be encouraged to mask when not eating and drinking, and will be asked to adhere to any provincial guidelines regarding COVID at the time of the event.
Information about lisan al'asfour:
“Expansive and searching, Natalie Hanna’s rich, sensual language drew me in immediately. lisan al’asfour is a poignant, compelling exploration of loss and regeneration, grief and joy.” — Annick MacAskill, author of Shadow Blight
“Natalie Hanna’s lisan al’asfour is a visceral journey through a world of feeling in a colonized world. Using contrasting images and beautiful prose, Hanna offers readers a political wake up and emotional respite with her words.” — Jacqueline Valencia, author of Lilith
With moving invocations for softness and strength, the poems in lisan al’asfour introduce a personal concept of creation around loss and matrilineage, and explore the schism between defining and maintaining identity. These are poems that speak to our efforts to make sense of the worlds we construct, and the collection embraces an impassioned approach to literary practice as anti-oppression practice, through the perspective of the critical self-subject.
Photo credit for E.Chang-Richarson - Curtis Perry.
Photo credit for J.Pederson - John McDonald.
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