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Worlds Within Worlds: Readings and Conversation

With Sue Goyette, André Alexis , and Elamin Abdelmahmoud

Sunday, November 9
1:00PM – 2:30PM (Doors open at 12:30PM)
The Carleton (1685 Argyle Street, Halifax)
$10.00

Description

First, hear Sue Goyette read from and talk about Future Howl, her remarkable new book of poetry. Then, André Alexis talks Other Worlds, his new volume of short stories, with Elamin Abedelmahmoud (Son of Elsewhere).  Presented by Dalhousie University.

Speakers

  • Sue Goyette lives in K'jipuktuk (Halifax) and has published several books of poems and a novel. Her latest collection is Future Howl, (Gaspereau Press, 2025). She is the editor of Resistance: Righteous Rage in the Age of #MeToo (University of Regina Press, 2021), The 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology (Anansi, 2017) and The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013 (Tightrope Books, 2013). Her work has been translated into French, Spanish and German and has been featured in films, subways, buses, spray painted on a sidewalk and tattooed. Her work has been nominated for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Award and has won several awards including the 2015 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award for her collection, Ocean; J.M. Abraham Poetry Award; the ReLit Award; the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry; the Bliss Carman Poetry Award; the Earle Birney Award; and the CBC Literary Award for Poetry.

  • André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. He is the author of the Quincunx, comprised of five novels: Fifteen Dogs, winner of the Giller Prize, CBC Canada Reads, and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; Days by Moonlight, winner of the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; Pastoral; The Hidden Keys; and Ring. His other books include Asylum, The Night Piece, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa, and most recently Other Worlds, longlisted for the Toronto Book Award. He is the recipient of a Windham Campbell Prize.

  • Elamin Abdelmahmoud is an award-winning culture writer and host of CBC’s Commotion. His work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, Rolling Stone, and others. He is the author of Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces, a number one national bestseller, a Globe 100 book, and a New York Times notable book.