Junie Désil reads at Talonbooks' virtual launch, January 28

Cecily Nicholson hosts online event, which also features authors Taryn Hubbard, Colin Browne, Fred Mah

Talonbooks’ launch takes place January 28 at 5:30 pm PST online via Zoom.

TALONBOOKS IS LAUNCHING four books before the calendar flips to February.

Writer Cecily Nicholson hosts the Zoom event.

Poet Junie Desil will read from eat salt | gaze at the ocean; Taryn Hubbard, artist-in-residence at Port Haney House in Maple Ridge reads from Desire Path; Colin Browne, professor emeritus in SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts reads from Here; and Fred Wah, one of the founding editors of the poetry newsletter TISH, will read from Music at the Heart of Thinking.

The virtual event is free, but pre-registration is required. See Talonbooks for more information.

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