katherena vermette, Brandi Bird, Hannah Green & Chimwemwe Undi Book Event
Schedule
Thu Oct 02 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB
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Join katherena vermette, Brandi Bird, Hannah Green, and Chimwemwe Undi as they gather to celebrate katherena's new poetry collection, procession (House of Anansi).https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781487013523/katherena-vermette/procession
This event will NOT be livestreamed, so please join us in person in the Atrium at McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park.
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procession: a line of people moving in the same direction; a formal ceremony or celebration, as in a wedding, a funeral, a religious parade. Bestseller and Governor General's Award-winner katherena vermette's third collection presents a series of poems reaching into what it means to be at once a descendant and a future ancestor, exploring the connections we have with one another and ourselves, amongst friends, and within families and Nations.
katherena vermette (she/her) is a Red River Métis (Michif) writer from Treaty 1 territory. Her father’s roots run deep in this land, dating back over two centuries, and her mother’s side is Mennonite. vermette received the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry for her first book, North End Love Songs, and wide acclaim for her second collection of poems, river woman. The Break, a novel, won many awards including the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and was a bestseller in Canada. She holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Born in Winnipeg, katherena lives with her family in a cranky old house within skipping distance of the temperamental Red River.
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Brandi Bird is an Indigiqueer Saulteaux, Cree, and Métis writer and editor from Treaty 1 territory. They currently live and learn on the land of the Squamish, the Tsleil-Waututh, and the Musqueam peoples (Surrey, B.C). Their debut poetry collection, The All + Flesh (House of Anansi), won an Indigenous Voices Award and was a finalist for both the Gerald Lampert and the Governor General’s awards. Brandi Bird is currently completing an MFA at the University of British Columbia.
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Hannah Green is a writer and poetry editor at CV2. She was a poetry finalist for the 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Her debut collection Xanax Cowboy was the recipient of the 2023 Governor General’s Literary Award and the 2024 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She lives in Winnipeg.
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Chimwemwe Undi is a poet, editor, and lawyer living and writing on Treaty 1 territory in Winnipeg. Her work has appeared in Brick, Border Crossings, Canadian Literature and BBC World, among others. Her debut collection, Scientific Marvel, received the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award in Poetry. She is Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
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