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An Evening with Colin Smith (THIN AIR 2021)

Friday Oct 08 2021 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming on YouTube
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Join us for an evening celebrating Colin Smith's Permanent Carnival Time (ARP Books) with guest Cam Scott. Featuring readings and a conversation. Presented as part of THIN AIR 2021: The Winnipeg International Writers Festival

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream. The video will be available for viewing thereafter. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.

"I'd rather have a transorbital lobotomy / Than a transnational economy."

In his latest book of poetry, Colin Smith's droll humour and meticulous control of language are metered out to explore the stakes of pain and the pain of folly. Language plays throughout the text, bringing a blithe tone to dark matters, and evoking fruitful tensions for the reader. Scattered topics of climate change, labour disputes, war, and massive inequities within cities are encountered by a voice that seems to scorn humanity as much as it delights in human language. Permanent Carnival Time is laugh-out-loud language poetry.

Colin Smith is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Multiple Poses (Tsunami Editions), 8 x 8 x 7 (KRUPSKAYA), and Multiple Bippies (CUE Books). With Ted Landrum, Steven Ross Smith, and Jennifer Still, he is part of Eccentric Crops, a collaborative poem-making group. Their first chapbook, Table for Four, was published by JackPine Press. He has a BFA in creative writing from York University and is a past member of the Kootenay School of Writing. He lives in Treaty 1 Winnipeg, occupied Anishinaabe akiing, traditional Métis Homeland.

Cam Scott is a poet, critic, and non-musician from Treaty 1 territory. He is author of WRESTLERS, a visual suite; ROMANS/SNOWMARE, poetry; and VANISHING SIGNS, a collection of essays forthcoming from ARP Books in 2022. Scott is artistic director of send + receive: a festival of sound.

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Permanent Carnival Time

- Colin Smith

Trade paperback $18.00
Reader Reward Price: $16.20

I'd rather have a transorbital lobotomy / Than a transnational economy. In his new book of poetry, Colin Smith's droll humour and meticulous control of language are metered out to explore the stakes of pain and the pain of folly. Language plays throughout the text, bringing a blithe tone to dark matters, and evoking fruitful tensions for the reader. Scattered topics of climate change, labour disputes, war, and massive inequities within cities are encountered by a voice that seems to scorn humanity as much as it delights in human language. Permanent Carnival Time is laugh-out-loud language poetry.

Romans/Snowmare

- Cam Scott

Trade paperback $17.00
Reader Reward Price: $15.30

Winner of the 2020 Manuela Dias Design and Illustration Award for Book Design

Both a daybook of anti-capitalist ideation and a homoerotic reinvention of the prairie long poem, this unique debut resonates with a love of language and experiment. Written from within the strictures of the working day, the book's title poem issues from a practice of daily collage, comprising the first layer of a potentially interminable personal epic. As a lyric counterbalance, a centralsection follows a punk band throughout dozens of countries connected by and subjugated to capital. These poems attempt to preserve the superficiality and sincerity of fast-paced social engagement, alluding to the material conditions that permit some people--tourists, artists, musicians--free movement at the expense of others. Playful and meticulously written, ROMANS/SNOWMARE deftly circles the perimeter of the self while drawing the communal inward.