Antler River Poetry Presents Síle Englert and Jason Heroux with Kit Roffey

February’s event will feature Síle Englert and Jason Heroux with local opener Kit Roffey!

To join our pre-reading workshop at 5:30pm, free and open to the public, communicate your interest to poetrylondon.ca@gmail.com.

Síle Englert is a queer, Autistic writer and multi-disciplinary artist. She is the author of two chapbooks: The Phobic’s Handbook (Anstruther Press, 2020) and Threadbare (Baseline Press, 2019). The Lost Time Accidents, her first full-length poetry collection, is forthcoming from icehouse poetry (Goose Lane Editions) in October, 2021. Síle’s writing has placed Second in CV2’s 2-Day Poem Contest and Freefall Magazine’s Fiction contest, and was shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year in 2020. Her work has appeared in journals including: The Fiddlehead, Room, Contemporary Verse 2, Arc, The Dalhousie Review, and Carousel. Síle’s recent work can be found in the way out is the way in: an anthology of disabled poets from the League of Canadian Poets, and I Found Myself in You, a collaborative chapbook from Collusion Books.

https://gooselane.com/products/the-lost-time-accidents

Jason Heroux is the author of four books of poetry: Memoirs of an Alias (2004); Emergency Hallelujah (2008); Natural Capital (2012) and Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines (2016). His most recent book is the novel Amusement Park of Constant Sorrow (Mansfield Press, 2018). Translated into French, Italian, and Arabic, his poetry has been featured in several anthologies, including Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008, 2011 and 2016, and has appeared in magazines and journals in Canada, the U.S, Belgium, France, and Italy. He is the current Poet Laureate for the City of Kingston, Ontario.

http://mansfieldpress.net/2016/04/hard-work-cheering-up-sad-machines/

Kit Roffey (They/Them) is a student at Huron College at Western University finishing a Major in English and Cultural Studies and a Minor in Psychology. They were the winner of the 2021 Antler River Poetry contest and their work has appeared in Prairie Fire (2021) and The Stratford Quarterly (2021).

Thank you to our generous event sponsors: London Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, The League of Canadian Poets, The London Public Library, Mansfield Press, Goose Lane Press, and digibee.net

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