Poets & Performers from 2024

Playto aka Panos

Represented Urban Legends twice, competed internationally and put out two chapbooks

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AJ Dolman

AJ Dolman’s debut poetry book is Crazy / Mad

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Alice Burdick

From Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Alice Burdick is the author of five books of poetry.

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Amanda Earl

Amanda Earl (she/her) is a queer writer, visual poet, editor, and publisher

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Anita Lahey

Anita Lahey’s latest poetry collection is While Supplies Last (2023, Véhicule Press)

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Apollo the Child

Omnipresent poetic leader, Apollo the Child will enliven your hope

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Armand Garnet Ruffo

Recognized as a major contributor to both contemporary Indigenous literature and Indigenous literary scholarship in Canada

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Billie Nell

Award-winning theatre creator, actor, arts organizer, & spoken word artist who has performed on national and international stages

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Chimwemwe Undi

The Winnipeg Poet Laureate for 2023 and 2024

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Chris Turnbull

Chris Turnbull is the author of cipher forthcoming from Beautiful Outlaw Press in spring 2024

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Chuqiao Yang

Finalist for the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

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D.S. Stymeist

D.S. Stymeist’s newest collection of poetry, Cluster Flux, appeared last fall with Frontenac House.

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Daniel Groleau Landry

Daniel Groleau Landry was awarded the Trillium Book Award for French Poetry and his latest is Fragments de ciel

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David O’Meara

Ottawa's David O'Meara's newest moving collection is Masses on Radar (Coach House, 2021).

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Derek Webster

Derek Webster's Mockingbird (2015) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poems in Canada

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Erik Lindner

Born in The Hague, Erik Linder was nominated for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022

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Faith Paré

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IAN MARTIN

IAN MARTIN is your second favourite poet's third favourite poet.

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Jaclyn Piudik

Jaclyn Piudik is the author of To Suture What Frays

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Jason Christie

Jason Christie is the author of Canada Post, i-ROBOT, Unknown Actor, and Cursed Objects

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Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi

Translator and poet Khashayar ‘Kess’ Mohammadi writes with arcing power.

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Klara du Plessis

Our finite world is brimming with choices, possibilities, transformations suggests Ekke by du Plessis.

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Laila Malik

Laila Malik's debut poetry collection, archipelago was named one of the CBC’s Best Canadian Poetry Books of 2023

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Madeleine Stratford

Prolific poet and translator based in Gatineau, Quebec, Madeleine Stratford was short-listed for a 2017 Kirkus Prize.

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Manahil Bandukwala

Author of Heliotropia and MONUMENT, which was shortlisted for the 2023

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Marjorie Silverman

Marjorie’s writing places into dialogue her various identities, including her Jewish cultural heritage and her lifelong struggle with mental health issues.

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Mark Goldstein

Mark Goldstein is the author of five trade editions including the award-winning Her Process 

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Mary Lee Bragg

Mary Lee Bragg grew up in Calgary, but has lived in Ottawa for most of her life. 

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MayaSpoken

MayaSpoken is an award winning spoken word artist, singer-songwriter, educator, author, activist, and more

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Monty Reid

Monty Reid gathers short poems, wraps them into longer sequences, and gathers poets to assemble.

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Myriam Legault-Beauregard

Her first full collection, Comme un myosotis, came out in September 2023

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Nduka Otiono

Nduka Otiono is an Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University.

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nina jane drystek

a poet, writer and performer, nina jane drystek is the author of the chapbooks missing matrilineal, a:of:in and knewro suite

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Sandra Ridley

Sandra Ridley is the author of three chapbooks and five books of poetry, the most recent of which is Vixen, published by BookHug Press in the fall of 2023.

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Shane Rhodes

Shane Rhodes is a poet and visual artist living in Ottawa

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Sneha Madhavan-Reese

Sneha Madhavan-Reese is the author of two poetry collections, Observing the Moon and Elementary Particles

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Stephen Collis

Bold, relevant, and revolutionary, Collis's poetry makes unflinching, astute and unpretentious calls on social issues.

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Stuart Ross

Stuart Ross has been working in the small press trenches of Canadian writing for 50 years

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Susan McMaster

Ottawa poet Susan McMaster will read from her new collection Grounded

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