The Earth is on Fire! Now What!
Tonight at The Pleasant (2434 Main Street)
Poetry and stories by Steve Collis, Erin Scott, Cole Mash, Magpie Ulysses
and you.
Doors at 6:30PM. Show at 7:00PM
Hope to see you there!
Our 3rd fabulous reader for our “The Earth is on Fire! Now What?” show on Thursday March 26th at the Pleasant (2434 Main Street) has many hats. I just call him the guy who convinced me to do a Master’s over a 45 minute bus ride down from Burnaby Mountain.
https://theearthisonfire.eventbrite.ca
Stephen Collis is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, including The Commons (2008), the BC Book Prize winning On the Material (2010), and Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (2018)—all published by Talonbooks. A History of the Theories of Rain (2021) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for poetry, and in 2019, Collis was the recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada Latner Poetry Prize. The Middle, the second volume in a trilogy, was published in October 2024, and Knock Down House, an experimental memoir, was published by Pamenar Press in 2025. He lives on Burnaby Mountain, unceded Coast Salish Territory, and teaches poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University.
This Sunday on zoom, 12 noon Vancouver time. Reading with wonderful poets. Info and registration: https://mailchi.mp/4b58620394d0/april2023-16538269?e=074a88d3c6
Friends, on Thursday March 26th, we’ve got a special show entitled, “The Earth is on Fire! Now What?”. This poetry show will feature activist/artists Stephen Collis, Cole Mash, Erin Scott and Magpie Ulysses!
https://theearthisonfire.eventbrite.ca
The content of the evening will centre itself around the severity and hilarity of what we do now. How do we compose ourselves while the earth is metaphorically and literally on fire?
Because of the illegal and unprovoked war of aggression against Iran, our designer Hamed Jaberha is currently under bombardment in Tehran. For that reason we cannot prepare our usual design for this announcement. Hamed, hang in there. We are all thinking about you.
Still, we gather.
Join us for an online reading and gathering with poets whose recent books were published by Pamenar Press and designed by Hamed.
Since we are scattered across the world, the only way to meet is to get online together.
Julie Carr joining from Denver
Stephen Collis from Vancouver
Jessica Pujol Duran from Santiago, Chile
Ágnes Lehóczky from Sheffield, UK
Hosted by Laura Akator.
They will read from their recent books published by Pamenar Press.
Sunday, 15 Sep
7pm GMT
on Zoom. Registration link in bio. Sliding scale. £5
