This Shelf Belongs To ... Tawhida Tanya Evanson!
February 5, 2021
Each month, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly invites a local author or artist to curate a shelf in the store. This month, we bring you recommendations from Tawhida Tanya Evanson!
Tawhida Tanya Evanson is an Antiguan-Québecoise poet, performer and producer. Author of two books of poetry, Nouveau Griot (Frontenac 2018) and Bothism (Ekstasis 2017), Book of Wings is her first work of fiction. With a 20-year practice in spoken word, she performs internationally and has released several studio albums and videopoems. Evanson is program director of Banff Centre Spoken Word. She has been named Poet of Honour at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, and has received the Golden Beret Award for her contribution to the spoken-word genre. Born and based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, she moonlights as a whirling dervish.
We are delighted to be hosting Tawhida for a virtual launch of Book of Wings on Thursday, February 18th, in conversation with Kaie Kellough!
All of Tawhida's picks will be 15% off throughout the month of February!
RUSH
bill bissett
The publication of bill bissett's Rush: what fuckan theory; a study uv language in 1972 firmly ushered Canadian poetics into the postmodern era. Out...
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The Great Black North
Valerie Mason-John
The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry is the first national anthology to focus solely on poetry by African Canadians. It is set...
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Subduing Demons in America
John Giorno
Associated with key 1960s avant garde figures such as Ginsberg, Burroughs, Rauschenberg, and Johns, John Giorno was an early pioneer of multimedia poetry through...
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The...
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The Essential Rumi - reissue
Coleman Barks
This revised and expanded edition of The Essential Rumi includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks and more than 80 never-before-published poems.Through his lyrical...
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