Gillian Sze Reading/Signing

Pivot at the Press Club is a poetry and fiction reading series happening every second Wednesday at the Press Club in downtown Toronto.

This event features Gillian Sze.

Sze was raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She has been published in The University of Winnipeg Creative Writing Journal, Juice, as well as Concordia’s Headlight Anthology. In 2004, she received the University of Winnipeg Writers’ Circle Prize. Her first chapbook, This is the Colour I Love You Best, was published by Withwords Press in 2007.

In Fish Bones, Sze takes a random walk through the art museum and finds the drama of life framed in a series precisely rendered and moving artefact poems. Working from Jeanette Wintersons idea of a 'constant exchange of emotion' between the artist, the painting, and the writer, Szes ekphrastic verse is unrelenting in its commitment to action, so that each poem sparked by a picture comes to follow its own impetus, the origin of which is always a deeply felt encounter, whether familial, erotic, or strange. Vacillating deftly between the suspended space-time of a museum exhibit and the charged urgency of the lives she imagines via the art she describes, the result is a collection at once stirring and arresting, tender and coolly true.

For more information on this event, call (416)364-7183.