You are invited to attend Ottawa-based poet ELLEN CHANG-RICHARDSON’s Kingston book launch at Novel Idea!

Ellen will read from and discuss their debut collection Blood Belies,. Copies of the book will be available for purchase and autographing, and Kingston poets Ashley-Elizabeth Best and Y.S. Lee will be on hand to read from their own work.

Don’t miss meeting this trio of readers, and don’t miss the local unveiling of a volume already highly acclaimed. Poet David O’Meara, for one, marvels at how “Blood Belies explores fraught counterpoints between surface and depth, exposing enduring histories of racism and environmental neglect. In a fluid carousel of text, disruption, white space, image and narrative, Chang-Richardson’s urgent, inventive structures react to and subvert received hypocrisy, where each fugitive subtext weaves fracture into art.”