On a September afternoon with musical accompaniment, Karen read from her latest collection of poetry, The Scent of Spring, Elegies out of Season.
Joined by nephew, Stefan T. Naylor, on piano, Karen mesmerized her audience at the Tranzac Club, Toronto.
Readings included St. John on Patmos, Mosul, Child and Bicycle, Amor Omnia Vincit, Fisherman’s Reunion and Little by Little.
Join Karen for the launch of her latest book, The Scent of Spring, Elegies Out of Season.
Sunday September 18
2:30-5:00pm
The Transzac Club
292 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto
All welcomed!
Readings at 3:00pm with piano improvisations by Sam T. Naylor.
Books will be for sale for $20. Requested signings and pre-orders welcomed; please contact us.
Learn more about this latest of Karen’s collection of poetry.
Karen’s latest collection powerfully captures the turbulence of contemporary life, its individual crises and global disasters.
As a reviewer notes, “Karen Muhallen has wisely chosen the elegy as the keenest instrument to bear witness to our disappearing world.” With a unique style of documentary and witness poetry, she “moves through various cities and geographies narrating elegies of loss, of cultural murder”.
The Scent of Spring, Elegies Out of Season is available through Amazon and the publisher, The Black Spring Press Group (UK).
Watch Karen reading from the collection. Stay tuned for the book launch in Toronto!
The wonderful untethered magazine is holding a live launch reading at Supermarket in Kensington Market from 7-10 PM on Wednesday June 15 and Karen will be reading. It will be a big event—masks please—and untethered‘s first live launch in two years.
Supermarket is a wonderful venue with excellent food.
There is a big line up! Poets are each given 5 minutes which will be a challenge, but there is nothing like hearing folks read their own work.
The event will also be a fund raiser for untethered. There will be lots of books and magazines and the like for sale as well as prizes and a lottery.
Would love to see you all there. Come early if you can! Eat, drink and be merry!
Famous indie London publishing group, Black Spring Press, launches Karen’s latest collection of poetry — The Scent of Spring, Elegies Out of Season — in May.
Watch this site for details!
“Sea Horses” from the book by the same name by Karen Mulhallen, 2007
Videography by Teresa Hannigan, music by Stefan Naylor, photographs by Karen
Nancy Huston reads her French translation of Karen’s poem, “Pikangikum”, from The Scent of Spring.
Moira Mini translates into Italian Karen’s poem, “St. John on Patmos”, from her collection The Scent of Spring – Elegies out of Season (forthcoming publication in the UK). Mini also undertook a text analysis of the poem in Italian. Both are available on CanaDiana.
“Jane Somerville” from The Scent of Spring: Elegies out of Season by Karen Mulhallen, 2020
Videography by Teresa Hannigan, music by Stefan Naylor
“Mosul, Child and Bicycle” from The Scent of Spring: Elegies out of Season by Karen Mulhallen, 2020
Videography by Teresa Hannigan, music by Stefan Naylor