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Anatomical Venus Book Launch
August 25 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Free
Join us at Perfect Books to launch Courtney Bates-Hardy’s new book, Anatomical Venus. It’s a visceral collection of poems that invoke anatomical models, feminine monsters, and little-known historical figures.
Featuring readings by Christine McNair and Margo LaPierre. Hosted by Frances Boyle.
Courtney Bates-Hardy is the author of Anatomical Venus (Radiant Press, 2024), House of Mystery (ChiZine Publications, 2016), and a chapbook, Sea Foam (JackPine Press, 2013). She has been shortlisted for the Elgin Award and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is queer, disabled, and one-third of a writing group called The Pain Poets.
Christine McNair has published two collections of poetry –Conflict (Book*hug, 2012) and Charm (Book*hug, 2017). She is the winner of the Archibald Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the City of Ottawa Book awards. Her hybrid literary non-fiction memoir Toxemia is forthcoming with Book*hug in fall 2024. She works as a book doctor in Ottawa.
Margo LaPierre is a freelance literary editor and writer of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Her second poetry collection is forthcoming with Guernica in Fall 2025. She won the 2021 Room Poetry Award and the 2020 subTerrain Fiction Award and was shortlisted for Editors Canada’s 2024 Tom Fairley Award for Editorial Excellence. She is Arc Poetry magazine’s newsletter editor and a member of the Ottawa-based poetry collective VII.