Don’t miss the chance to meet the 2025 J. M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award and Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award nominees at The Carleton at 7 pm, Wednesday, June 4th. Poets will be reading from their nominated books! Bookmark will sell the nominated titles, and authors will be available for book signings. Tickets for this very special event are only $13.16 + HST = $15.00 all in.
Hosted by: Tara Thorne
Featuring:
- Alice Burdick, Ox Lost, Snow Deep, Anvil Press
- Clare Goulet, Graphis Scripta / Writing Lichen, Gaspereau Press
- Annick MacAskill, Votive, Gaspereau Press
- Johanna Skibsrud, Medium, Book*hug Press
- Bren Simmers, The Work, Gaspereau Press
Alice Burdick is the author of five books of poetry. Her poems and essays have appeared in multiple anthologies, chapbooks, folios, broadsides, cookbooks, and films. She leads workshops for children and adults and is a mentor, freelance editor, proofreader, manuscript assessor, and broadcaster. She lives in Nova Scotia.
Clare Goulet’s writing has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Grain, Room, Collateral, Poetry Canada Review, and The Dalhousie Review. She is also the co-editor (with Mark Dickinson) of Lyric Ecology: An Appreciation of the Work of Jan Zwicky (2010). She lives and teaches in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, NS.
Annick MacAskill was the winner of a 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for her poetry collection Shadow Blight. Her previous collections include Murmurations, No Meeting Without Body, and two chapbooks—Brotherly Love: Poems of Sappho and Charaxos and five from hem. MacAskill is a member of Room Magazine’s Growing Room Collective and publisher of micropress Opaat Press. She lives in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, NS.
Johanna Skibsrud is the author of three previous collections of poetry, three novels—including the Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel, The Sentimentalists—and three nonfiction titles, including The Nothing That Is: Essays on Art, Literature, and Being, and most recently, Fool: A Study in Literature and Practice. An Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Arizona, Johanna divides her time between Tucson, Arizona, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.
Bren Simmers is the author of four books: If, When (2021), Pivot Point (2019), Night Gears (2010) and Hastings-Sunrise (2015), which was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Her work has won the CBC Poetry Prize, The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize and the Arc Poem of the Year Award. She lives on Epekwitk/Prince Edward Island.