AT THE RISK OF LISTENING Book Launch & Celebration
Friday Jun 13th, 2025
7pm
Take Cover Books, 59 Hunter Street East
Tickets $10 or PWYC

We are very excited to host the launch of Ziysah von Bieberstein's collection of their work as Peterborough's Poet Laureate, At the Risk of Listening. It's all happening on the evening of Friday, June 13!

So many of us are struggling every day with the dissonances of practicing care and connection while witnessing the rise of greed and fascism. Mutamba and I are each exploring those themes in our own ways. What can we be doing right now in our own communities to seed the futures we yearn for? What does it mean to be alive at this moment with the particular passions and inheritances we each hold? 

I hope you can join us to celebrate At the Risk of Listening. This book is a love letter to Nogojiwanong, the place at the end of the rapids, but will resonate with anyone…

Greetings in transformative times. Fascism threatens, the death machine rages, autumn colour-screams its warnings through the thinnest of veils. To narrow down to my slice of life: my phone fell from a rollercoaster, I am having nightmares of my kiddo dressed as No-Face, and I am today celebrating 15 years of parenthood. The 4-pound peanut who was a little eager to join us earthside has successfully grown to 30x his original size. He has opened my eyes to so much wonder, and makes me laugh on the daily. He wants to know how all this is relevant to a newsletter about poetry, but says I can…