A Reading by Kaie Kellough

Genetic Cascade - A Poetry Reading by Kaie Kellough

The Department of English at McGill University and the Montreal International Poetry Prize are pleased to invite you to a reading by the prize-winning Montreal writer, Kaie Kellough.

• 6–8 PM, Thursday 10 November 2022
• Senior Common Room (Room 100)
• Birks Building, 3520 University
• McGill University
   

Kaie Kellough is a Montreal novelist, poet, and sound performer, with roots in western Canada and Guyana. His work – including Dominoes at the Crossroads (short fiction, Véhicule 2020), Magnetic Equator (poetry, McClelland and Stewart 2019), and Accordéon (novel, ARP 2016) – is celebrated for its combination of social engagement and formal experimentation. His writing has won the Griffin Poetry Prize and the QWF Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, in addition to being listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal, the Amazon/Walrus Foundation First Novel Award, the ReLit Award, and the QWF A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry.

The Montreal International Poetry Prize (est. 2010) is a non-profit, public-facing initiative designed to renew the university’s role in promoting the writing and reading of poetry as an essential way to interpret the world. Every two years, it awards a prize of $20,000 to an original poem of forty lines or fewer. Through a cycle of activities, the Montreal Prize builds community in and beyond the academy under the banner that poetry is for everyone – by assembling a distinguished international jury, attracting entries from dozens of countries, running a reading series, maintaining a media presence, and publishing The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology with partner Véhicule Press.

The Department of English is a partner in the McGill University’s multi-year interdisciplinary initiative designed to strengthen and support research and teaching in African and Black Studies, while redressing under-representation of Black faculty in the tenure stream, as laid out in the University Action Plans to Address Anti-Black Racism 2020-2025.