Please help us welcome these fabulous new books into the world on June 24, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto.

FEATURING:

Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery by Margaret Nowaczyk

Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon

Smoke by Nicola Winstanley

The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by Ben Berman Ghan

Please help us welcome these fabulous new books into the world on June 23, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. at Mills Hardware, 95 King St. E, Hamilton.

FEATURING:

Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery by Margaret Nowaczyk

Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon

Smoke by Nicola Winstanley

The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by Ben Berman Ghan

Join Ariel Gordon as she celebrates the Winnipeg launch of Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest (Wolsak & Wynn). There will be a conversation hosted by Kerry Ryan, an opportunity for audience Q&A, and a book signing with the author. The event will also feature a display by Tom Nagy of River City Mushrooms.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.

Fungal is a wide-ranging collection from Ariel Gordon where she explores her fascination with all mushrooms, not just those you can eat. In these engaging essays she takes the reader through ditches and puddles in search of morels, through the hallways of a mushroom factory, down city sidewalks and beside riverbanks as she considers things found and fungal. Smart, funny and poetic, Gordon moves seamlessly from the natural world to the personal in these essays, examining the interconnectedness of all things and delighting in the rich variety of the world around her.

Host Kerry Ryan is the author of three poetry collections: The Sleeping Life (The Muses’ Company), Vs. (Anvil), and Diagnosing Minor Illness in Children (Frontenac House). Her poems and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies across Canada. She lives and writes in Winnipeg.

A 90 minute inspiration workshop for all those who mother. New moms, grand-moms, expecting moms, mom-moms, gender non-conforming parents, all those who mother as a verb: come along!

Award winning poet and author Ariel Gordon will read some of her work, share her motherhood writing journey, and will lead writing prompts that draw on forest bathing techniques. Ariel’s first book, Hump (2010), was focused on pregnancy and mothering, and won the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry at the Manitoba Book Awards.

Tickets on sale now! Go to the momalong shop to buy.

https://www.momalong.ca/shop

Please join us for a National Poetry Month event featuring Electronic Garret poets from Victoria to Charlottetown on the subject of NaPoWriMo and resilience.

Register and tune in LIVE on Zoom, Wednesday, May 5 at 7:00pm CDT via Eventbrite HERE.

Bren Simmers, Tanja Bartel, Micheline Maylor-Kovitz, and Arleen Pare will read from new work and from their most recent collections.

The Electronic Garret is a group of Canadian women and non-binary poets who have created an online community to support each other in writing thirty poems in thirty days for NaPoWriMo; we have done this every April since 2014. This reading will feature four Electronic Garret poets reading NaPoWriMo work, discussing the process and how the group has fostered resilience.

This event is sponsored by the League of Canadian Poets and hosted by Winnipeg writer Ariel Gordon.

Bios:

Tanja Bartel is a poet and high school teacher living in Pitt Meadows, BC who holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Her first book, Everyone at This Party, was published by Goose Lane at the start of the pandemic in 2020.

Dr. Micheline Maylor was Calgary’s Poet Laureate 2016-18. Her latest poetry collection, The Bad Wife is newly out and Little Wildheart (U of Alberta Press) was long listed for both the Pat Lowther and Raymond Souster awards. She recently won the Lois Hole Award for Editorial Excellence in Alberta. She teaches creative writing at Mount Royal University.

Arleen Paré is a Victoria writer. She has seven collections of poetry, two of which are cross-genre. She has been short-listed for the BC Dorothy Livesay BC Award for Poetry and has won a Golden Crown Award for Poetry, the Victoria Butler Book Prize, a CBC Bookie Award. She won a Governor Generals’ Award for Poetry for Lake of Two Mountains.

Bren Simmers is the Charlottetown-based author of four books, including the wilderness memoir Pivot Point and Hastings-Sunrise, which was a finalist for the Vancouver Book Award. Her most recent collection of poetry, If, When, was published this spring by Gaspereau Press.

National Poetry month is here and this year's theme is Resilience.

Join us as FreeFall plays host to the wonderful voices of Kim Fahner, Ariel Gordon, Tanis MacDonald, Barbara Pelman, Angeline Janel Schellenberg, and Juleta Severson-Baker. Hosted by our very own Micheline Maylor.

At Bay Press Presents: The Better Book Club Event # 1

featuring author Ariel Gordon and artist Natalie Baird discussing the book TreeTalk.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YGZP1qzATdezieDAUCWQ2w

An intimate reading and discussion series, featuring authors and artists published by At Bay Press. Every Monday, we will host a session via Zoom with live-streaming on Youtube and Facebook for 8 weeks, starting Monday, January 4th 2021.

Each week, an At Bay Press author (and artist if the book is a graphic novel or visual book) will read from their latest novel, poetry collection, or graphic novel. Readings will be followed by an open discussion with attendees, just like a regular book club, but better since the author of the work will be in attendance!

Each registrant will receive a free e-book (pdf format) of the work being read and discussed prior to the event. Each event will be approximately 1 hour long. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to hear from your favourite authors and be able to speak directly with them from the comfort of your own home.

* Registration required. All ages event. This event will also feature live drawing and sketching with the artist.

About TreeTalk

During the heatwave of July 2017, Ariel Gordon spent two days sitting on the patio of downtown Winnipeg’s Tallest Poppy, writing snippets of poems which she hung from the boulevard tree using paper and string. Passersby were invited to TreeTalk too — their secrets / one-liners / meditations / haiku were also hung from the tree. By the end of the weekend, the elm had a second temporary canopy of leaves: 234 poems, 111 written by Gordon, 107 written by passersby, and 16 from other sources.

Gordon has assembled all these voices into a long/found poem that asks: what does it mean to live in the urban forest? What does it mean to be in relationship with each other but also with the more-than-human? The book also includes pen and ink illustrations by Winnipeg artist Natalie Baird.

About the Presenters

M. C. Joudrey is a Canadian writer, award winning artist and designer. His second novel Of Violence and Cliché was released September 2013, followed by his collection of short stories Charleswood Road: Stories in August 2014, which was nominated for a 2015 Manitoba Book Award. His novel Fanonymous was released in 2019 and was nominated for two Manitoba Book Awards, including the Margaret Laurence Award for best work of fiction. M.C. Joudrey has been a member of the submission selection committee for the CBC Short Fiction Prize and a jury member for the Manitoba Book Awards. His titles reside in permanent legislative and national government collections. He is also a bookbinder and a number of his works are held in galleries internationally.

Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg-based author of two collections of urban-nature poetry, both of which won the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. Gordon also co-edited the anthology GUSH: menstrual manifestos for our times (Frontenac House, 2018) and is the ringleader of the National Poetry Month in the Winnipeg Free Press project. Her most recent book is Treed: Walking in Canada’s Urban Forests (Wolsak & Wynn, 2019).

Natalie Baird is a visual artist, filmmaker, and community-based researcher based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Natalie completed a bachelor of environmental science from the University of Manitoba in 2014, where she explored film-making as a tool for environmental action. Her documentary, animation, and video-installation work has been screened and exhibited across Canada. She has an embedded community practice, working as an arts facilitator and artist-in-residence in drop-in art centres and personal care homes. In 2016 Natalie returned to the University of Manitoba for a master of environment, leading arts-based research projects about the social dimensions of climate change in Nunavut.