We’re still jumping for joy at Barbara Tran’s Governor General’s Literary Award Finalist news for her debut poetry book Precedented Parroting! If you’d like to meet her and share in the celebrating, head on over to the Wild Writers Festival in Waterloo November 1-3! Barbara will be sharing a panel with Shani Mootoo and Derek Webster. Moderated by Lamees Al Ethari. 3:10pm – 4:30pm
Join acclaimed poets Barbara Tran, Shani Mootoo, and Derek Webster as they discuss how curious incidents, from plumbing personal archives to questioning ancestry and origins, inspired their latest poetry collections. This illuminating discussion will explore how poetry can transcend tropes to uncover greater truths, and how poetry explores and indulges our most ardent curiosities.