Join Hannah Green at La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly at 176 rue Bernard O at 7 pm on Tuesday, May 2nd for the launch of her debut poetry collection Xanax Cowboy! The evening will feature conversation with Eileen Mary Holowka, a reading, Q&A and signing.
Cowboy boots encouraged but not required.
The event is free and open to all. Books will be available for purchase at the event and both authors will sign copies of their books.
Please note that we are asking all guests to wear masks at this event. Masks will be available free of charge upon entry.
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The Xanax Cowboy has a reputation like a rattlesnake. She might as well be a strike-anywhere match in a gasoline town. Her whiskey is mixed with vengeance like her mind is mixed with pills. The last doctor who told her she ain't nothin' is still spitting blood through a split lip.
Xanax Cowboy is a meta-poetic romp that chews through the lexicons of pulp, pop, and academia, spitting out pieces that are at once campy, dark, and gnawingly tender, with a bravado and showmanship that challenge conventions of power, performance, gender, and genre. Through roving tours of tone and tactic … Hannah Green mounts a contemporary antihero with both a light and devastating touch, knowing just when to loosen the slack and when to jerk the line arrestingly taut.
-- Jury Citation, 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award
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Hannah Green is a Winnipeg-based writer and poetry editor at CV2. She was a poetry finalist for the 2021 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. Xanax Cowboy is her first book.
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Eileen Mary Holowka (they/she) is a writer, game developer, and patient researcher/advocate. They have a PhD in communication and media studies and are the co-founder of Weird Ghosts, an impact fund for game developers in Canada. They were long-listed for the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize and were one of the editors of CV2's Sick Poetics issue. You can find them online at @derangedpoetess
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Librairie Drawn & Quarterly would like to acknowledge that our events and bookstores are located on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. Many of us refer to Montreal as our home, but it is named Tiohtiá:ke. It has always been a gathering place for many First Nations and continues to be home to a diverse population of Indigenous peoples. We are grateful that creating and sharing stories has been a part of this land for thousands of years.
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La Petite Drawn and Quarterly Accessibility information:
- We encourage the wearing of masks at our events.
- Our event space uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside, there are no additional steps.
- This will be a sober event. Sparkling water will be offered.
Please email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any questions!