Lunch Poems presents Sadiqa de Meijer and Theresa Muñoz (In-person)

March’s Lunch Poems reading at SFU Harbour Centre’s Teck Gallery features poets Sadiqa de Meijer and Theresa Muñoz.

Sadiqa de Meijer's latest book is the essay collection In The Field. Her previous works include Leaving Howe Island, The Outer Wards, and alfabet/alphabet. Her work, which often explores landscape, language, motherhood, medicine, art, and the long wakes of colonialism and migration, has received the CBC Poetry Prize, the Governor General’s Award for English Non-Fiction, and other honours. It has been published in Poetry Magazine, the Walrus, and Brick, and anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry, the Best Canadian Essays, and the Dutch Turing Prize series. She is the current Poet Laureate of Katarokwi/Kingston. Her new book of poetry, Qaf's People, comes out in May.

Dr Theresa Muñoz is a Canadian poet living in Edinburgh, Scotland, with a PhD from the University of Glasgow. She has published one collection of poetry, Settle, which was shortlisted for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize. Her second collection Archivum, an exploration of what it means to engage with archival artefacts, is published by Pavilion Poetry (2025) and was nominated in the Saltire Literary Prizes 2025. She has been awarded the Muriel Spark Centenary Award, Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, Creative Scotland Award, and shortlisted for The Kavya Prize and a Sky Arts Royal Society of Literature Writers Award. She has directed several literary initiatives in the UK, including the Newcastle Poetry Festival and the James Berry Poetry Prize. She is currently Writer-in-Residence at Green College, University of British Columbia.

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