Meghan Kemp-Gee is the author of The Animal in the Room (Coach House Books), as well as the poetry chapbooks What I Meant to Ask and Things to Buy in New Brunswick. She also co-created the webcomic Contested Strip, recently adapted as a graphic novel, One More Year. She is a PhD candidate at the University of New Brunswick and currently resides in North Vancouver BC.
Synopsis
The Animal in the Room
Deer with binoculars, wolves with resumes: bioengineered poetry that unsettles truth, fact, and history. Animals are strange testing grounds for thinking about subjectivity, language, the body ― really, anything you might want to write a poem about. Together, these poems are an evolutionary chart or a little bestiary – about deer, wolves, evolution, environmental collapse, and extinction. Each one stands alone as a contained organism, but like real animals, they share some genetic material with each other. Considering PTSD and anxiety disorder as a kind of animal experience, a self-protective mechanism, these poems embody the selves we see reflected in the natural world’s creatures. Deer are a way of putting fear and trauma outside yourself, wolves a way to understand the instincts of predators.
The Animal in the Room
Sessions in which Meghan Kemp-Gee participates
- Natural (Dis)order
- Available Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket Centre culturel Aberdeen - 2nd Floor | Aberdeen Cultural Centre
- 6:30 PM ADT - 7:30 PM ADT | 1 hour
- Both of these collections embody the selves we see reflected in humanity and the natural world. From love and desire to environmental collapse and ...
- In-Conversation Event / Entretien
- Literary Lunch: The Adversary
- Available Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket Les Brumes du Coude - Les Brumes du Coude | Aberdeen Cultural Centre
- 11:45 AM ADT - 1:00 PM ADT | 1 hour 15 minutes
- A novel about the unshakeable animosity between a brother and sister and a community increasingly divided as the feud spirals further into vendetta...
- Lunch-in-Conversation / Dîner-entretien
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- Frye Jam
- Available Sold out Ticket sales have finished Ticket sales haven't started yet You've purchased a ticket Centre culturel Aberdeen - Bernard-LeBlanc Hall | Aberdeen Cultural Centre
- 8:00 PM ADT - 10:00 PM ADT | 2 hours
- Reading / Lecture
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