For Elisabeth de Mariaffi reading from her novel, The Devil You Know.
& George Murray reading from his new book of Poetry, Diversion.
Stay tuned for more sights and sounds from this exciting fall line-up.
(Photo credit: Liam Lachance. Thanks, Liam!)
George Murray’s Diversion In His Own Words
“Diversion is essentially an abstract diary of what it means to be distracted. Because of its focus on declarative statements, it resembles in some ways a book of aphorisms, but perhaps a book of aphorisms in the middle of an acid trip or on a ‘roid-rage bender. It’s an angry and funny book about the shrinking space and time available for quiet reflection and subsequently our dwindling ability to distinguish what’s profound from what’s mundane.” ––George Murray
Read the full interview from Open Book Toronto here.
Come see George Murray & Elisabeth Di Mariaffi read at Concordia on November 17th, 7pm, John Molson Building, The Floating Box, room 2.130 (1450 Rue Guy).
Paula Meehan Tonight 7pm, Tomorrow 11am
Irish Poet, Paula Meehan Reading & Masterclass
October 1st at 7 pm, York Amphitheatre rm 1.605, EV Building, 1515 St. Catherine W. October 2nd at 11 am – Masterclass Room LB-362, 1455 De Maisonneuve: sign up LB-674.2
https://www.facebook.com/events/498291637014596/
In collaboration with Concordia’s department of Canadian Irish Studies.
Someone Reading a Book is a Sign of Order in the World – Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle is joining us for a masterclass, reading and discussion on Friday. Join us!
Key words: writing, erasing, everything.
She is the author of the Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013), Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and Selected Poems (Wave Books, 2010), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has published ten books of poetry, a book of prose and a comic book. Ruefle is the recipient of numerous honors, including an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Bennington, Vermont, and teaches in the MFA program at Vermont College.
Trailer for Concord Floral (Surburban Beast, Jordan Tannahill)
Writers Read is kicking off the 2015-16 season with the multi-talented Jordan Tannahill. He is a Canadian playwright, filmmaker, and theatre director described by the The Globe and Mail as “the poster child of a new generation of (theatre? film? dance?) artists for whom “interdisciplinary” is not a buzzword, but a way of life.” Jordan runs a storefront arts space called Videofag in Toronto’s Kensington Market with William Christopher Ellis. He is the author of Theatre of the Unimpressed, Coach House 2014, and Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays, which won the 2014 Governor General’s Award for drama. Join the event!
Concord Floral is a million square foot abandoned greenhouse and a hangout for neighbourhood kids. But something has happened there. Something that nobody can talk about. And when two friends stumble upon the terrible secret buried there, they set off a chain of events that can’t be stopped. Concord Floral re-imagines Giovanni Boccaccio’s medieval allegory The Decameron in a contemporary Toronto suburb, in which ten teens must flee a mysterious plague they have brought upon themselves.
Concord Floral from Jordan Tannahill on Vimeo.
Jordan Tannahill: Film, Theatre, Videofag
“Camp is such an interesting space for failure to fall within. Unintentional camp, obviously we can intentionally cultivate camp, but there are so many failures that do veer into that realm. I think queerness has for so long apprehended the jouissance or the necessity of embracing failure, the inability to conform. To embrace the impossible maddening incongruities or absurdities of life and subvert those through humour, often very dark humour. But Tennessee Williams has always unintentionally courted camp, maybe rarely I would say intentionally. Melodrama tips so easily into that.” -Jordan Tannahill, Interview by Hazlitt, 2015. See the full interview here.
Photo: Scene from “All Our Happy Days Are Stupid”
Jordan Tannahill is joining us for a public reading on September 22, 2015 at 7pm. Join the Facebook event.
He is a Canadian playwright, filmmaker, and theatre director described by the The Globe and Mail as “the poster child of a new generation of (theatre? film? dance?) artists for whom “interdisciplinary” is not a buzzword, but a way of life.” He is the author of Theatre of the Unimpressed, Coach House 2014, and Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays, which won the 2014 Governor General’s Award for drama.
Writers Read: Concordia university's reading Series 