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Literary Editions
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Literary Editions is co-hosted by the Edmonton Poetry Festival.
This annual poetry event will feature online readings from UAlberta Press’ newest collections: This Sweet Rupture by Omar Ramadan, When Whales Went Back to the Water by Lisa Baird, and Python Love by Shannon Arntfield, all hosted by Aaron Kreuter.
About Books & Authors:
The poems in Omar Ramadan’s This Sweet Rupture explore family secrets, diaspora, food culture, and war’s impact on personal narratives while navigating cultural identity as a first-generation Lebanese-Canadian.
Lisa Baird’s poems in When Whales Went Back to the Water traverse through joy, loss, parenting, domestic violence, and isolation. Steely, tender, and sensual, this collection creates a reverent container for a broken world.
Shannon Arntfield’s Python Love is a collection of free verse poetry weaving together experiences of childhood abuse and birth trauma from the perspective of a medical doctor who is also a mother.
The new books of each reader will be available from Audreys Books in Edmonton and area, and the University of Alberta Press’ website.
In-Person & Online: This is a hybrid event with both an in-person and online attendance option. Those wishing to attend in-person can join a listening party in Henderson Hall (1-17 Rutherford Library South, University of Alberta Campus). There will be refreshments. Those wishing to attend online can join via Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent out to all registrants the day before the event and again one hour before the start.
Registration: Free and limited. To secure your spot, visit edmontonpoetryfestival.com/2025-festival/events-schedule
Venue
April 23 2025, 5-6:30pm
Rutherford Library South
University of Alberta, 11208 89 Ave NW
Edmonton, AB T6G 2J8 Canada