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Tegan Zimmerman, with Sue Goyette, launches Chimeras

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Time:
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Venue:
Mount Saint Vincent University Library
Location:
166 Bedford Highway, Halifax. More info
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chimeras-book-launch-tickets-1984063960716
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Member event

Join us April 10 at 3 pm in the Mount MacDonald Room to celebrate the launch of Tegan Zimmerman’s debut poetry book.

Author reading/Q&A, in conversation with poet Sue Goyette, hosted by Clare Goulet. All welcome. Free.

Accessibility details: Main entrance to Seton building offers elevator to 2nd floor, follow signs to EMF Library. Room offers accessible seating space.

“Chimeras brilliantly explores the fragility of identity categories, the slipperiness between the contradictory roles assigned to the maternal: goddess-lover-wife-mother-crone-monster.” (Inaana)

Mount prof and Atlantis editor Tegan Zimmerman holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia; her writing centralizes contemporary gender theory and women’s writing that focuses on the maternal and mother-daughter relations.

Sue Goyette is the author of ten collections of poetry and the novel Lures and was Poet Laureate of Halifax Regional Municipality from 2020 to 2024. Awards include the Pat Lowther Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize as well as finalist for the Griffin; her work has been translated into French, Spanish, and German.

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