Verse on the Banks

18 Jun 2025 • 06:00 PM–08:00 PM Eastern

NCC River House, Learning Lab

Join Ottawa's Poets Laureate Véronique Sylvain and David O'Meara for a special event to celebrate Ottawa Riverkeeper with a reading of river poems by Ottawa poets Amamda Earl, Michèle Matteau, Manahil Bandukwala, Julie Huard, Monty Reid, Clémence Roy-Darisse and David Groulx.

The Poets

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Ottawa poet David Groulx speaks with black humour and raw beauty of the strength of scarred experience.

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Author Julie Huard is also a reporter/director, a facilitator, a photographer and a traveler.

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Amanda Earl (she/her) is a queer writer, visual poet, editor, and publisher

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David O’Meara

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Ottawa's David O'Meara's newest moving collection is Masses on Radar (Coach House, 2021).

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Manahil Bandukwala

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Author of Heliotropia and MONUMENT, which was shortlisted for the 2023

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Heliotropia

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Monty Reid gathers short poems, wraps them into longer sequences, and gathers poets to assemble.

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Véronique Sylvain

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Véronique Sylvain is Ottawa’s Francophone Poet Laureate for 2024-2026.

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