icehouse & friends: Fredericton Launch

It’s the in-person return of icehouse and friends! Join Goose Lane Editions at Gallery on Queen for an evening of readings and poetry.

Wednesday, April 20
6:30 PM
Gallery on Queen

Featuring:
Shane Neilson (You May Not Take the Sad and Angry Consolations)
Jim Johnstone (Infinity Network)
Triny Finlay (Myself A Paperclip)

This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of Westminster Books.

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Shane Neilson is a disabled poet, physician, and critic, who grew up in New Brunswick and now lives in Oakville, Ontario. Neilson is the author of four non-fiction books on medicine and literary criticism. His poetry has won the Walrus Poetry Prize and Arc Magazine’s Poem of the Year Award (twice). His five previous poetry collections include Dysphoria, winner of the Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry and Complete Physical, a finalist for the Trillium Award.

Jim Johnstone is the author of five collections of poetry, including The Chemical Life (2017). He is the recipient of a CBC Literary Award, The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, and Poetry’s Editors Prize for Book Reviewing. He curates the Anstruther Books imprint at Palimpsest Press, where he published The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry (2018). He lives in Toronto.

Triny Finlay is a queer poet, writer, teacher, and mother whose collections include Splitting Off and Histories Haunt Us. Her writing has appeared in Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets, Arc Poetry Magazine, Contemporary Verse 2, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The London Reader, The Malahat Review, Plenitude, University of Toronto Quarterly, and Untethered. She teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.

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