Dead Bees Still Sting Book Launch and Reading

CBC Literary Prize winner Susan Cormier presents selections from her new book. Hailed as "gorgeously-written and surprising" and full of "humour and insight", Dead Bees Still Sting is a collection of stories about living in the urban wildland interface. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing. This is a FREE event.

What Readers are Saying:

“Beekeeper and poet Cormier debuts with a poignant collection of essays on life on her Canadian farm, an enclave teeming with wild and domestic animals surrounded by encroaching development. Evocative and lyrical, this is a moving portrait of a life lived in tune with nature.”

--Publisher’s Weekly, STARRED review

“Cormier somehow splits the veil that divides us from the rest of nature, giving readers respectful insights into the actions and lives of wildlife and opening up a world that is often hidden from city dwellers. Come for the bees, stay for these beautifully written observations."

--Booklist, STARRED review

"Fearless and often funny, beekeeper/poet Susan Cormier leads us to astonishment and awe in the humble but liminal spaces where wild and tame meet at her homestead. I loved every gorgeously-written and surprising page."

--Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus

“Electric, alive, and tender, Cormier's world is one of deep entanglement and ethical implication. How do we live with the natural world in a time when the borders between domestication and wildness are blurred—and how do we grapple with its changes? This book, playful and direct at once, offers a path.”

—Jessica J. Lee, author of Dispersals and Two Trees Make a Forest

“Gentle meditations on what we nurture and care for, on what we bury and what we unearth, on the twisting flow of life and a human relationship with the most enigmatic of creatures. A braided love letter to a pastoral life of joy and heartbreak that added a moment of quiet at the end of each busy day. A book that city dwellers would do well to read.”

—Marc Hamer, author of How to Catch a Mole

“Susan Cormier’s Dead Bees Still Sting is a strikingly original meditation on the sweetness and pain of being alive. A masterclass on the art of the personal essay.”

—Candace Savage, author of A Geography of Blood

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