Festival · Calgary
Book Launch On Occasion Anthology
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
7:00 PM
Calgary
About this event
Shelf Life Books. Book Launch and discussion featuring On Occassion editor Sina Queyras and contributors David Martin, Vivian Hansen, Angela Waldie, and Kevin Stebner.About the bookA twenty-first-century reconsideration of the occasional poem by contemporary writers.On Occasion is a collection rooted in the tradition of the poem as an act of love, an act of protest, an act of visionary incantation, of remembrance, of a call to arms, and a much-needed balm.The traditional ‘occasional poem’ has a bad rap: a tedious rhyming poem at a wedding or a dreary verse at a funeral. This is not that. These are poems for a tumultuous and complicated world, for occasions that may be celebrations or mournings, or anything in between; from life cycles, to earth cycles, to social cycles, editor Sina Queyras brings together a collection of poetry that speaks to moments of upheaval, revolution, and challenge. Poetry that people can turn to.
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