Palimpsest Press

Did you miss the Palimpsest Press Spring launch? No worries! Check out the readings from Tolu Oloruntoba, Vanessa Shields, Nathaniel Moore and Margaret Christakos here:

Please note: Vanessa Shields in conversation with Margo Wheaton has been postponed. If you have pre-registered, you will receive an email shortly. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Tune into Wax Poetic today at 2:00 PDT to hear Tolu chat about his new book, the Junta of Happenstance on Vancouver Co-op Radio CFRO. Listen live online: http://www.coopradio.org/home-orig

Register now for tomorrow's spring book launch at 8:00 p.m. EST -- limited spots left! Join us with Palimpsest authors, Margaret Christakos, Nathaniel G. Moore, Tolu Oloruntoba, and Vanessa shields, with host, Jim Johnstone. Zoom registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us//regist/WN_A3mt8lITSBWAYePM55x13g

Catch Gord Grisenthwaite on All Write in Sun City talking Home Waltz.

Join Canisia Lubrin and Klara du Plessis for an online reading and discussion about the long poem form. Both Lubrin's and du Plessis' newest books, The Dyzgraphxst and Hell Light Flesh, employ the expansive potential of the long poem as it verges on narrative. They will discuss differing approaches to this expansion, how the residue of the lyrical lingers and impacts, how narrative recalibrates the expectations of poetry, and more! January 12th, 1pm EST

Launching a book during a global pandemic proved to be a beautiful experience, thanks to all those who strove to activate online events, to attend, to review, p...ost on social media, send private messages, and otherwise spark morale. Now for a Happy 2021!! Palimpsest Press Klara's second brilliant collection takes up the themes of linguistic displacement in her first, Ekke, yet extends them to a moving meditation on the family of origin, and cosmic family wherein we situate our bodies and linguistic formations of self. Virginia Konchan Hell Light Flesh is a book one can read endlessly and always reach new morsels of meaning. This is a book of poetry that manufactures its own poetics, creating new landscapes of artistic expression in the process. Khashayar Mohammadi The Capilano Review Hell Light Flesh reveals du Plessis as a master of contrast in image, language and thought, evoking a terrifying cosmos of concepts even as it confines itself to a claustrophobic paucity of domestic spaces and scenes. John Nyman carouselmagazine du Plessis is one of my favourite contemporary poets, someone I consider a role model. This second collection reiterated the beauty of her craft, which has a calm, sage-like wisdom and patience to it, rewarding the reader who is willing not only to sit with her work but also to revisit it periodically, like going to see an old friend. Margaryta Golovchenko I want to wear the descriptions of flowers. Amanda Earl On the page, du Plessis treats words as material. She drags letters down a page like mud and turns every feeling into a solid. Emilie Kneifel Montreal Review of Books

Congrats to Elizabeth Ross for being a Hamilton Literary Awards finalist in the poetry category!

Our Managing Editor, Chris Benjamin, who is also a fiction author, sat for a Zoom with author/poet David Huebert. They talked about their new books: Benjamin's ...short story collection, Boy With A Problem (Pottersfield Press) and Huebert's poetry collection, Humanimus (Palimpsest Press), writing good dialogue, ecological passion and angst, the future of humanity, writing creatively about big ideas, and how parents of young children can't close the door when they pee. See more