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CLiP Meeting - Billy-Ray Belcourt's poetry - May 18, 18:30, MS Teams

Submitted by mmarkowicz on 18 May, 2021 - 12:00.
2021-05-18 18:30
2021-05-18 20:00

Belcourt_BodyCanadian Literature in Perspective Reading Group (CLiP) cordially invites  everyone interested in literature to a discussion of Billy-Ray Belcourt’s poetry and essays! During the meeting, we will look at  selected poems from Belcourt’s two collections as well as several essays from his recently published A History of My Brief Body. 

Everybody’s welcome!


Billy-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. His debut book of poems This Wound is a World (2017) won him the Griffin Poetry Prize, making him the youngest ever winner. Belcourt’s second poetry collection NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes from the field was published in 2019 to great acclaim.

A History of my Brief Body - "essays and vignettes of grief, colonial violence, joy, love, and queerness” - was published in August 2020. It is currently shortlisted for a 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography and for a Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction.

The meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 18, 18:30 on MS Teams.

To get access to the texts, contact dr Marcin Markowicz at marcin.markowicz@amu.edu.pl 

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