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Estlin McPhee Book Launch (In Person + Streaming)

Saturday Jun 07 2025 7:00 pm, Saskatoon, Travel Alcove & YouTube

Join poet Estlin McPhee for the Saskatoon launch of their debut collection In Your Nature (Brick Books), with special guests Leah Horlick and Rowan F. Neufeld.

This event will be held live in the Travel Alcove and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream.

In Your Nature is filled with poems that show us a world in which precedent for gender transition is everywhere if you know how to look. Populated by transmasculine werewolves, homoerotic Jesuses, adolescent epiphanies, dutiful sisters, boy bands, witches, mothers who speak in tongues, and nonnas who cross the sea, this is a book in which relational and narrative continuity exists, paradoxically, as a series of ruptures with the known.

Estlin McPhee is a writer and librarian who lives on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Estlin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and is the author of the poetry chapbook Shapeshifters (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2018). Their writing has appeared in journals across North America; for many years, the wonderful Leah Horlick and Estlin co-organized REVERB, a queer reading series in Vancouver. In Your Nature is Estlin’s debut poetry collection.
 
 
Leah Horlick is the author of three books: Riot Lung, For Your Own Good, and Moldovan Hotel. She is a past winner of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize, a Stonewall Honor Title, and ARC’s Poem of the Year Prize. For five years, she and her dear friend Estlin McPhee co-organized a queer and anti-oppressive literary reading series on Unceded Coast Salish Territories called REVERB. Leah was the 2022 - 2023 Canadian Writer in Residence with the Calgary Distinguished Writers' Program at the University of Calgary, and is now happily back in Saskatoon. 
 
 
 
 
 
Rowan F. Neufeld (he/they) is a poet from Saskatoon on Treaty Six Territory. His work has been published in Silence Zine and Poetry All Over the Floor: Volume One. When they’re not writing poems, you’ll find them papercrafting or distracted by birds. Rowan is also the Executive Director of JackPine Press, a limited-run chapbook publisher.

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In Your Nature

- Estlin McPhee

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Poetry / LGBTQ+Poetry / Canadian

Poems that show us a world in which precedent for gender transition is everywhere if you know how to look.

"I delete my history / badly," writes Estlin McPhee in this searing, witty, lyrical, and elegiac debut collection of poems about intersections of trans identity, magic, myth, family, and religion. The line refers at once to a young person's browser data that reveals an interest in gender transition; an adult's efforts to reconcile complicated relationships; a culture's campaign to erase queerness and transness from the historical record; and a religion's attempt to pretend that its own particular brand of miraculous transformation is distinct from the kind found in folktales or real life. Populated by transmasculine werewolves, homoerotic Jesuses, adolescent epiphanies, dutiful sisters, boy bands, witches, mothers who speak in tongues, and nonnas who cross the sea, this is a book in which relational and narrative continuity exists, paradoxically, as a series of ruptures with the known.