For National Poetry Month AACB is Celebrating Canadian Poets
Channel: all about canadian books 
Date: 17/04/2024

Happy National Poetry Month! AACB is celebrating our INCREDIBLE Canadian talent with a special reading featuring Hollay Ghadery (co-host), Courtney Bates-Hardy, Patrick Grace and Ellen Chang-Richardson.

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Hollay Ghadery lives in Ontario. Fuse, her memoir, (Guernica Editions) won the 2023 Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir. Her collection of poetry, Rebellion Box was released by Radiant Press (2023). Her short stories, Widow Fantasies, are forthcoming with Gordon Hill. Hollay is the Poet Laureate of Scugog Township.

Hollay read "The Zeignarik Effect," from Rebellion Box. 

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Courtney Bates-Hardy is the author of Anatomical Venus (Radiant Press, 2024), House of Mystery (ChiZine Publications, 2016), and a chapbook, Sea Foam (JackPine Press, 2013). Her poems have been featured in Best Canadian Poetry, Vallum, and EVENT, among others. She is queer, disabled, and one-third of a writing group called The Pain Poets. 

Courtney read "The Lady Anatomist" from Anatomical Venus.

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Patrick Grace is an author and teacher from Vancouver, BC. He has published two chapbooks: a blurred wind swirls back for you (2023) and Dastardly (2021), and his first full-length collection, Deviant, is out now with University of Alberta Press. He moonlights as managing editor for Plenitude Magazine. Follow him on IG: @thepoetpatrick.

Patrick read "A Cone of Light," from Deviant.

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Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. The author of Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn, 2024) and six poetry chapbooks, their multi-genre writing has been published in Augur, Room and Vallum, among others. They co-founded Riverbed Reading Series and write collaboratively with the poetry collective VII.

Ellen read "courtyard acupuncture" from Blood Belies.

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