Poets & Performers from 2023

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Amy Dennis
English

 The Sleep Orchard is Amy Dennis' debut collection.

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Annick MacAskill
English

Annick MacAskill's Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press, 2022) won the Governor General’s Award

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Antoine Leclerc
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Ben Borg
English

Ben Borg is a guitarist / composer living in the Ottawa / Odawa region.

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Bren Simmers
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Bren Simmers won the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize.

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Cameron Anstee
English

Cameron Anstee's most recent collection is —Sheets: Typewriter Works

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Chantal Neveu
French

Montréal author of seven books of poetry.

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Christine McNair
English

Ottawa poet Christine McNair's second poetry collection Charm came out from BookThug.

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Ciku Gitonga
English

Ciku (shee-koh) is a politics major at uottawa who is literally drowning in assignments right now ah-

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Conyer Clayton
English Local

Conyer Clayton's long-awaited debut collection is We Shed Our Skin Like Dynamite.

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Danny McLaren
English

Danny McLaren's The Enby Manifesto, is forthcoming.

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Devon Rae
English

Devon Rae is an upcoming queer poet.

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Ellen Chang-Richardson
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Ellen Chang-Richardson is an award-winning poet of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent.

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Emilia Morgan
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Erik Johnson-Scherger
English

Erik Johnson-Scherger is a contemporary violinist based happily out of Ottawa, Ontario.

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Frances Boyle
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Ottawa poet Frances Boyle is the author of Light-carved Passages and a chapbook, Portal Stones.

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Glenn Nuotio
English

A a piano player, songwriter and "cabaret brat"

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Jane Munro
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Jane Munro's sixth poetry book, Blue Sonoma (Brick Books), won the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize.

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Jennifer Pederson
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Jennifer Pederson's poetry has appeared in the anthology the bird philomela (battleaxe press), and in in/words magazine.

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John Barton
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John Barton is a poet, essayist, editor, and writing mentor.

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John Ian
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Singer/songwriter John Ian tells stories, observes and ponders.

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Justin Million
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Justin Million's first book EJECTA!: The Uncollected KEYBOARDS! Poems is out now with Apt. 9 Press.

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kj munro
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kjmunro's debut poetry collection is contractions (Red Moon Press, 2019).

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Liam Burke
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Liam Burke is the co-author of Orbital Cultivation with Manahil Bandukwala.

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Lucia de Luca
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Manahil Bandukwala
English Local Canada

Ottawa poet to watch soar, Manahil Bandukwala explores in Orbital Cultivation.

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Marijke van den Hoeven
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Molly Cross-Blanchard
English Canada

Molly Cross-Blanchard is the publisher of Room Magazine.

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Natalie Eilbert
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Natalie Eilbert's forthcoming collection is Overland from Copper Canyon Press.

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Natalie Hanna
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Natalie Hanna is the author of the poetry collection lisan al’asfour (ARP, 2022)

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Natalie Lim
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Natalie Lim's first chapbook is arrhythmia.

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Nicholas Dawson
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Patrick Grace
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Patrick Grace's most recent is a blurred wind swirls back for you (Turret House Press, 2023)

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Philomene Kocher
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Philomene Kocher's most recent collection is still.

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Raïssa Simone
English

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Renée Dahn
English

Renée Dahn is a violist, violinist, and pedagogue active in the city of Ottawa.

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River
English

Recently put an album out titled “Talked the Truth” 

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rob mclennan
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Sanna Wani
English

Sanna Wani is the author of My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi, 2022)

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Seiiizi
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Seiiizi is a self taught Emcee, DJ and Producer with artistic roots in Hip-Hop and reggae.

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Stefan Schneider
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Stefan Schneider studied classical percussion and jazz drumming at University and has been working as a professional musician across Canada for the last twenty-two years

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Stephen Brockwell
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Stephen Brockwell is a Montreal poet living in Ottawa.

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Stephen Eckert
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Stephen Eckert is a pianist, educator and composer

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Stuart Ross
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Stuart Ross has given readings at hundreds of venues in Canada, the U.S., Solvenia, England, Chile, and Nicaragua.

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Taylor Stocks
English

Taylor Stocks is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in music, poetry, theatre, and drag.

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Tiffany Eng Moore
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Vera Hadzic
English

Vera Hadzic's first chapbook, Fossils You Can Swallow, is from Proper Tales Press.

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Vivian Vavassis
English Local

Vivian Vavassis is a Montréal ex-pat who lives in Ottawa and calls both cities home.

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Woodpigeon
English

As Woodpigeon, Mark Andrew Hamilton has released 7 full-length albums

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