Where:

Hotel Holiday Inn
Centreville

Montréal

April 28th

Niko Launch - 5 - 6.30 pm - Join Vehicule Press in celebrating the launch of Dimitri Nasrallah's new novel, Niko.

City as Character Discussion - 8 - 9.15 pm - Gail Scott (The Obituary, Coach House) and Teri Vlassopoulos (Bats or Swallows, Invisible) will be taking part in a panel discussion on the influence of the city in their recent writing.

April 29

DC Book Launch - 5 - 6.30 pm - Join DC books in celebrating recent releases.

Poets at Night - 6 - 7.15 pm - Gabe Foreman (A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People, Coach House) will be reading from his new poetry collection as part of this group reading.

Quattro/Guernica Forum - 6 - 7.15 pm - Join Quattro Books and Guernica Editions in a discussion on recent work.

Opening Your Library Discussion - 8 - 9.15 pm - Alexander MacLeod (Light Lifting, Biblioasis) and Kathleen Winter (boYs, Biblioasis) will be taking part in a discussion on key books for personal libraries.

Memoirs Discussion - 9.30 - 10.15 pm - Charlene Diehl (Out of Grief, Singing, Signature) will be taking part in a discussion on writing a memoir.

April 30

Quattro Launch - 2 - 4 pm - Join Quattro Books in celebrating the launch of their new spring titles.

Opening Your Library at Night - 9.30 - 10.15 pm - Clark Blaise (The Meagre Tarmac, Biblioasis) will take part in a discussion on what books should be included in personal libraries.

May 1

Readings on Sunday - 11 - 12 pm - Jon Paul Fiorentino (Indexical Elegies, Coach House), H. Nigel Thomas (Lives Whole and Otherwise, TSAR), and Kenneth Radu (Sex in Russia, DC) will be reading from their respective titles at this late morning reading.

Rebuking the Present - 11 - 12 pm - Mary Soderstrom (Making Waves, Vehicule) will be taking part in a discussion on writing about the past in this panel discussion.

For more info please visit the Blue Metropolis website: bluemetropolis.org/2011