Description
Join us for an evening to celebrate the launch of Cori Howard’s new poetry collection, The Fifth Season, out now from Caitlin Press. Expect a great evening of cocktails, conversation and poetry about marriage, motherhood, divorce, dating, desire and midlife reinvention. Howard will be in conversation with fellow poet, Andrea MacPherson, who will read from her latest poetry collection, Reckless. The event will be hosted by former Vancouver poet laureate, and award-winning poet and author, Rachel Rose.
The Fifth Season explores the seasons of a woman’s life, from marriage and motherhood to divorce, disaster dating and reinvention. Through the arc of midlife, these poems offer a map back to the self and a return to longing and new freedoms. In poetry that is raw, honest and personal, Howard carries the reader through the thresholds of her life, illuminating the experiences of womanhood and the questions we ask ourselves during times of transition and reimagination.
McPherson’s Reckless follows the complex trajectory of female identity in a world that consistently denies women their right to assert it. These poems tackle an array of urgent topics women face throughout their lives including reproductive rights, the trials of motherhood, the pain of divorce and sexual emancipation.
Books will be on hand for sale and signing. This event is free, but please RSVP for your spot here as capacity is limited.
More about Upstart & Crow:
Upstart & Crow is a not-for-profit creative studio and literary incubator that champions writers, readers and stories, and the role they play in shaping our lives. We develop original programs, support artists and revel in creative projects focused on Literature In Translation / Climate Solutions / Poetry / Civic Dialogue / Community & Skills Building … all with the aim of elevating the role of literature and storytelling in our lives. Find us on Granville Island, Gibsons and online at upstartandcrow.com.
Accessibility:
The main studio of our shop is accessible for folks with mobility aids. There is a washroom on the main floor available for attendees.
Questions: hello[at]upstartandcrow.com.
The Fifth Season
“The Fifth Season is exquisite, brave, and shatteringly honest; a powerful portrait of womanhood through marriage, divorce, mothering, and midlife and into the fierce possibilities that lies beyond.”
—Carol Shaben, author of Into the Abyss
“Cori Howard’s The Fifth Season captures the complicated and complex feelings about motherhood and selfhood in mid-life. Her delicate, lyrical language will delight readers, even as she depicts deep sorrow and seasons of loss. This book is a gift to women who’ve had to let go, let go, and then let go again, and it reminds us all that pleasure might be waiting for us after we mourn.”
—Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author of GROUP: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life and B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost & Found
Reckless
“Reckless pierces through the onerous layers society imposes on women to get to the beating heart of what it means to be a girl, a mother, a lover, a best friend. These poems are sharp and soft, intimate and expansive, showing us the breadth of womanhood in the smallest and biggest of moments, in the words we speak and the ones we keep hidden.”
—Jen Sookfong Lee, author of The Hunger We Pass Down
