Her Body in Words: Farzana Doctor & Hollie McNish

Farzana Doctor and Hollie McNish

Her Body in Words: Farzana Doctor & Hollie McNish

Farzana Doctor and Hollie McNish

5:00pm

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Toronto’s Farzana Doctor and Britain’s Hollie McNish sit down for an intimate and frank exploration of female lives and sexuality through poetry. Doctor presents her latest collection, You Still Look the Same, which interrogates the oddness of sex and love from the point of view of women at mid-life, from dating and break-ups to racism and misogyny. McNish unveils Slug, a powerful and provocative collection of prose and poetry that holds a mirror up to birth, death and everything in-between, exposing the nakedness of the human condition in a most refreshing way. This event, as in life, may contain sexually explicit content.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 22 at 5pm ET
Where: Brigantine Room
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Toronto’s Farzana Doctor and Britain’s Hollie McNish sit down for an intimate and frank exploration of female lives and sexuality through poetry. Doctor presents her latest collection, You Still Look the Same, which interrogates the oddness of sex and love from the point of view of women at mid-life, from dating and break-ups to racism and misogyny. McNish unveils Slug, a powerful and provocative collection of prose and poetry that holds a mirror up to birth, death and everything in-between, exposing the nakedness of the human condition in a most refreshing way. This event, as in life, may contain sexually explicit content.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 22 at 5pm ET
Where: Brigantine Room
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Featured Authors

Farzana Doctor is a Toronto-based author, activist and a psychotherapist. She has written four critically acclaimed novels. Her latest, Seven, was shortlisted for the Trillium and Evergreen Awards. Her poetry collection, You Still Look The Same, which Quill & Quire has called “a powerful and necessary collection that breaks silences”, has just been released. www.Linktr.ee/farzanadoctor

Read more about Farzana Doctor

Ted Hughes Award winner Hollie McNish is a poet whose live readings are not to be missed. Expect strong language and adult content ribbon wrapped in carefully and caringly sculpted poetry as Hollie reads from and chats about her much anticipated new collection: Slug...and other things i’ve been told to hate.

Read more about Hollie McNish

5:00pm

Thursday, September 22

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