Windsor Author Event with Sadiqa de Meijer, Blair Trewartha, & Andre Narbonne

Name: Windsor Author Event with Sadiqa de Meijer, Blair Trewartha, & Andre Narbonne
Start: 2026-06-10T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Biblioasis Bookshop

Schedule

Wed, 10 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Biblioasis Bookshop | Windsor, ON

Join Palimpsest Press authors Sadiqa de Meijer, Blair Trewartha, & Andre Narbonne at Biblioasis Bookstore on June 10, 2026 for an evening of books and conversation!
The event is free and open to the public.
More about the authors and their books:
In the Field by Sadiqa de Meijer:
In In The Field, Sadiqa de Meijer’s follow up to the Governor General’s Award winning alfabet/alphabet, brings us essays that move searchingly through their central questions. What meaning does a birthplace hold? What drives us to make contact with a work of art? How do we honour the remains of the dead? This writing constitutes a form of fieldwork grounded in intimate observation. In The Field is an extraordinary book, one that invites readers to bring renewed attention to their own lives and to embrace the subjectivity in the experiences of others.
Sadiqa de Meijer is the author of the poetry collections Leaving Howe Island and The Outer Wards. Alfabet/alphabet won the 2021 Governor General Literary Award for Non-Fiction. Her work has also won the CBC Poetry Prize and Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest, and was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. She lives with her family in Kingston, Ontario. http://www.sadiqademeijer.com/
Half Earth by Blair Trewartha:
In his second full-length poetry collection, Half-Earth, Blair Trewartha explores what it means to survive in a world beset by climate crisis and the ever-distorting realities of digitised human life. Throughout, the poet weaves dreamlike narraves and excavates scenes of deep history that connect to both family and illness, all the while questioning how to raise young children through a pandemic and the advent of Artificial Intelligence. Rather than sermonizing or catastrophizing, Trewartha presents moments that exist on the brink of both the past and the future, replete with prehistoric tusks frozen in foreign tundra, a decaying family farmhouse, firestorms, the zeitgeist by algorithm, and a toddler’s visualisation of death. Half-Earth is a long-awaited beacon from one of Canada’s finest poets.
Blair Trewartha’s debut poetry collection , Easy Fix, (Palimpsest Press, 2014) was shortlisted for the Relit Award. He also is the author of three chapbooks: Break In (Cactus Press, 2010),Porcupine Burning (Baseline Press, 2012), and human energy (Anstruther Press, 2022). His work has recently appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Prairie Fire Magazine, and The Fiddlehead. Born and raised in Huron County (Treaty 29 Territory), Blair now lives in London, Ontario (Treaty 6) with his partner and two children. Half-Earth is his second full-length collection of poetry.
Those are Pearls by André Narbonne:
From the seeds of an impoverished boilermaker’s adoration for a rich doctor’s daughter grows a sweeping story of a family whose personal passions are woven into the tapestry of world history. Harry Short first rides into bale at the beginning of the Boer War, in 1895, to win the heart of Margaret Roll. In 1914 he enlists again, to escape her. With Margaret, he sires a family that takes the reader through generations and across continents. They arrive in Canada as prairie homesteaders, witness the Winnipeg Riot of 1919, and survive the Great Flood of 1950 as well as marriage to bootleggers and communists, police investigation, unlikely heroism on the battlefield, and, all but one, a torpedo.
André Narbonne is a scholar, writer, and the publisher of Conspiracy Press, based in Windsor, Ontario. His short fiction has been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories, won the FreeFall Literary Contest, the David Adams Richards Prize, and the Atlantic Writing Contest. A first collection, Twelve Miles to Midnight, was shortlisted for the 2017 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. His first novel, Lucien & Olivia, was longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize.