Poetry Reading: Annick MacAskill with Alison Smith

Please join us for an evening of poetry at the Union Square Hall!

Annick and Alison will be doing a Zine Workshop on the afternoon of the 19th at the Union Square Hall– we couldn’t let Annick come all this way and not do a reading too!

Annick MacAskill’s most recent poetry collection is Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022), which has been nominated for a 2022 Governor General’s Award in Literature! She is also the author of No Meeting Without Body (Gaspereau Press, 2018), which was a finalist for the J.M. Abraham Award and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and Murmurations (Gaspereau Press, 2020). Her poems have appeared in journals across Canada and abroad, and in the Best Canadian Poetry anthology series. A settler of French and Scottish ancestry, she lives in K’jipuktuk (Halifax), on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq.

Alison Smith is the author of three books of poetry and one chapbook from Gaspereau Press. Her most recent collection, This Kind of Thinking Does No Good, was awarded the 2019 J.M. Abraham Award for Atlantic Poetry and was shortlisted for the 2020 Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award. She has written for radio, the stage, and has taught poetry workshops in prison, schools and other community settings.

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