Arts Event

The Globe and Mail has called Rachel Rose's poetry "as haunting as it is vibrant", and this month Vancouver's acclaimed Poet Laureate is in
Ottawa to celebrate the release of her new collection, Marry & Burn
(Harbour Publishing, $18.95) at the Tree Reading Series. The event
will take place at Black Squirrel Books (1073 Bank St, Ottawa) on
Tuesday, January 26, 2016 starting at 8:00pm. It will also feature a
reading by Jessica Hiemstra, an open mic segment where local writers
read their own work, and a free hour-long poetry workshop that starts
before the reading at 6:45pm.

The fourth collection from award-winning poet Rachel Rose, Marry &
Burn is a journey through a troubled relationship and a troubled city,
charting the territory of love and addiction, and the stories we tell
ourselves about ourselves. Inspired by struggles both personal and
global, these are not gentle poems—they probe deep into comforting
personal and cultural myths, rending them to pieces even as they
expose the beauty in the bright shards that remain.