Sunday Poetry Readings

A.F. Moritz, Canisia Lubrin and Ian Williams

Sunday Poetry Readings

A.F. Moritz, Canisia Lubrin and Ian Williams

8:30pm

Sunday, October 25, 2020

60 mins

End your weekend on an imaginative note of rhythmic composition, with intimate poetry readings by several accomplished Canadians, including: A.F. Mortiz, Canisia Lubrin and Ian Williams.

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Originally part of TIFA 2020, this event will be part of a special re-release spotlighting Canadian voices. It will be free to watch with no registration required. The video will automatically appear above on July 6, 2023, and will become unavailable on July 12 at 11:59pm ET.

End your weekend on an imaginative note of rhythmic composition, with intimate poetry readings by several accomplished Canadians, including: A.F. Mortiz, Canisia Lubrin and Ian Williams.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

Originally part of TIFA 2020, this event will be part of a special re-release spotlighting Canadian voices. It will be free to watch with no registration required. The video will automatically appear above on July 6, 2023, and will become unavailable on July 12 at 11:59pm ET.

Featured Authors

A.F. Moritz
A. F. Moritz is widely considered one of the defining and most beloved lyric poets of his generation. His many honours include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize and an Ingram Merrill Fellowship. He currently serves as the 6th poet laureate of the City of Toronto.

Read more about A.F. Moritz

Canisia Lubrin
Canisia Lubrin is the author of three books, including Code Noir (Knopf, 2023) and The Dyzgraphxst (M&S, 2020), winner of, among others, the Griffin Prize and OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean literature. Awarded a 2021 Windham-Campbell poetry prize, Lubrin is a Creative Writing professor at the University of Guelph.

Read more about Canisia Lubrin

Ian Williams
Ian Williams is the author of five books. His novel, Reproduction, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His last poetry collection, Personals, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award. Not Anyone’s Anything won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award for the best first collection of short fiction in Canada. You Know Who You Are was a finalist for the ReLit Poetry Award.

Read more about Ian Williams

8:30pm

Sunday, October 25

60 mins

What to read

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