Friday July 13th
Doors @ 7:30PM, Reading @ 8:00PM
Argo Bookshop, 1915 Ste. Catherine West
For the past 7 years, Jovan Vuksanovich has been presenting his poetry across Canada and in Poland, and has published his work in Canadian, American and European literary journals. On July 13th, Jovan will be at the Argo Bookshop reading from and selling his album Deviant Melody, a CD of 9 poems drawing from surrealist and symbolist influences in imagery, combining imagined landscapes with humour and “bitter doses of reality”. The event will be filmed by Montreal documentary filmmaker Frederic St. Hilaire.
You can peruse Jovan’s poetry @ http://www.youtube.com/rollingzenpoet
Argo Open Mic & Reading Circle
Wednesday July 18th
Doors @ 7:00PM, Reading @ 7:30PM
Argo Bookshop, 1915 Ste. Catherine West
Bring your fiction, poetry, spoken-word, music and articles to the monthly Argo Open Mic and Reading Circle! We’ve made the addition of a Reading Circle for those of you who, while enjoying the writings of established and emerging Montreal folk, can now read and/or perform a passage from an author you love. Of course, bring some of your own work if you can, we’d love to hear it! Everything is welcome. Encourage your friends and family to come out and show what they’ve been working on so they can receive due applause. A trip for drinks will ensue to a debatable location.
Christien Gholson reads from his first novel A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind
Thursday July 19th
Doors @ 7:00PM, Reading @ 7:30PM
Argo Bookshop, 1915 Ste. Catherine West
American-born and UK-based author and globetrotter Christien Gholson will be at the Argo to read from and sign copies of his first novel A Fish Trapped Inside the Wind (Parthian Books, 2011). This light-hearted book follows six people living in a small town in Belgium on the morning of the St. Woelfred festival, when dead fish are found everywhere throughout the town. Are they proclamations, omens, signs? Author of the critically acclaimed book of poetry On the Side of the Crow (Hanging Loose Press, 2006), Gholson’s fantastic and speculative work has appeared The Sun, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Cimarron Review and the speculative magazine Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet.
Geoffrey Brock & Padma Viswanathan
Friday July 27th
Doors @ 7:30PM, Reading @ 8:00PM
Argo Bookshop, 1915 Ste. Catherine West
The Argo Bookshop is pleased to announce that two award-winning, critically acclaimed authors will be the Argo Bookshop’s Featured Readers for July: The American award-winning poet & translator Geoffrey Brock, who will be presenting work from his latest translation The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012) alongside the superb novelist Padma Viswanathan, who will be reading from her novel The Toss of a Lemon (Random House, 2008).
A translator of six books, Geoffrey Brock holds a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Florida and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the Univeristy of Pennsylvania. Recipient of the Guggenheim, Stegner and National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowships, Brock has published a highly lauded book of poems Weighing Light (Ivan R. Dee, 2005) and has published his work in Poetry Magazine, Paris Review, PN Review, New England Review, The Hudson Review and The Best American Poetry 2007.
Padma Viswanathan is a Canadian playwright and fiction writer whose short stories have appeared in Subtropics, New Letters, PRISM International, Boston Review, and Malahat Review. A graduate from University of Alberta, Viswanathan is the recipient of an MA from John Hopkins Univeristy and an MFA from the Univeristy of Arizona, fellowships from both the Canada Council for the Arts and the NEA, as well as residencies at MacDowell, Sacatar and Banff Center for the Arts. Her widely star-reviewed novel has received Amazon.ca’s First Novel Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Best First Book Award.