RIVERBED x VERSEFEST

thursday, march 23, 2023 | jeudi le 23 mars 2023
7:00pm EST • 19h00 HNE
in person | présenté en personne
Knox Presbyterian Church - 120 rue Lisgar St, Ottawa, ON K2P 2L7
MANAHIL
​BANDUKWALA
Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist originally from Pakistan and now settled in Canada. She works as Coordinating Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine, and is Digital Content Editor for Canthius. She is the author of many chapbooks, most recently Orbital Cultivation (Collusion 2021, with Liam Burke) and encounter (Rahila's Ghost Press 2022, with Nimra Bandukwala). She is a member of Ottawa-based collaborative writing group VII. Her debut poetry collection is MONUMENT (Brick Books).
LIAM
​BURKE
Liam Burke (he/him/himbo) lives in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe land. He is most recently the co-author of ‘Orbital Cultivation’ with Manahil Bandukwala (Collusion, 2021) and 'machine dreams' with natalie hanna (Collusion, 2021) which was shortlisted for the 2022 bpNichol Chapbook Award. His poem “Can we locate souls in space? The pairing problem, solved”, co-written with Manahil Bandukwala, was shortlisted for the 2022 Austin Clarke Award.
MOLLY
​CROSS-BLANCHARD
Molly Cross-Blanchard is a white and Métis writer and editor born on Treaty 3 territory (Fort Frances, ON), raised on Treaty 6 territory (Prince Albert, SK), and living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, BC). She teaches creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and her first collection of poetry is “Exhibitionist” (Coach House 2021).
CHANTAL
​NEVEU
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Chantal Neveu est l’autrice de sept livres de poésie, you, La vie radieuse, coït, mentale (La Peuplade), Une spectaculaire influence (l’Hexagone), èdres (É=É), Dans l’architecture (coécrit avec Nicolas Tardy / Rhizome). Elle est créatrice de nombreux projets littéraires interdisciplinaires produits avec plusieurs partenaires au Canada et à l’international. Ses livres traduits en anglais sont tous publiés chez Book*Hug Press : This Radiant Life par Erín Moure (gagnant du Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général pour la traduction 2021, gagnant du Prix Nelson Ball 2021), A Spectacular Influence par Nathanaël, et Coït par Angela Carr. Neveu vit à Montréal.
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Chantal Neveu is the author of seven books of poetry: you, La vie radieuse, coït, mentale (La Peuplade), Une spectaculaire influence (l’Hexagone), èdres (É=É) and Dans l’architecture (with Nicolas Tardy / Rhizome), and she has created numerous interdisciplinary literary works presented in Canada and abroad. Her books translated into English are all published by Book*hug Press : This Radiant Life by Erín Moure (Winner of the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award for Translation, Winner of the 2021 Nelson Ball Prize), A Spectacular Influence by Nathanaël, and Coït by Angela Carr. Neveu lives in Montreal.
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https://lapeuplade.com/archives/auteurs/chantal-neveu
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https://bookhugpress.ca/product-category/author/chantal-neveu/
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