On Sunday, September 18 at 6pm, join Massy Arts, Massy Books, and Vancouver-based poet David Ly for the launch of his poetry collection Dream of Me as Water (2022, Palimpsest Press).
At this in-person event, Ly will be joined by guest readers Jen Sookfong Lee, jaye simpson, and Adèle Barclay for a night to celebrate poetry, and to question how literature can be a platform to address a fluid, and ever-evolving notion of identity.
This event is free + open to all of our community, and registration is mandatory. The gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site.
Covid Protocols: For all in-person events, attendees must provide proof of vaccination, wear a mask (N95 masks are encouraged and recommended as they offer the best protection), and consent to having their temperature checked at the front door. We ask that if you are showing any symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.
Please be sure to register for this event.
You can purchase Dream of Me as Water by David Ly at Massy Books.
You can purchase The Shadow List by Jen Sookfong Lee at Massy Books.
You can purchase it was never going to be okay by jaye simpson at Massy Books.
You can purchase Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay at Massy Books.
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Author + Book
David Ly is the author of Mythical Man, which was shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Poetry Award. He is also co-editor (with Daniel Zomparelli) of Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022). David’s poems have appeared in publications such as Arc Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry, PRISM International, and The Puritan, where he won the inaugural Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. Dream of Me as Water is his sophomore poetry collection.
Moving beyond the themes of race, identity, and personhood navigated in Mythical Man, David Ly’s second book of poetry, Dream of Me as Water, explores ways of being that are not beholden to the expectations of others. Using water as his central metaphor, Ly meditates on how identity is never a stagnant concept, but instead something that is intangible, fluid, and ever-evolving. Dream of Me as Water revels in the nuances of the self, flouting outside perceptions for deeper, more personal realities.