CRÉATIQUE: RESEARCHER-ARTISTS READING AND CONVERSING

Join Sarah Burgoyne (Concordia, PhD Humanities) and Amandine Coquaz (Concordia, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Leverhulme Trust) for the fifth in a series of intimate events that will feature readings and conversations with PhD students, alumni, and postdoctoral research fellows, at Concordia University who have both creative writing and research practices.

Held in the Richler Library seminar room (capacity 30ish people), each Créatique event will feature two participants reading from their creative work and talking in whatever way they wish about the relationship between their creative and critical work and practice.

About the speakers:

Sarah Burgoyne is an experimental poet whose practice is based in somatic play and collaboration. She is currently enrolled in Concordia’s Humanities Interdisciplinary PhD program where she is researching the history and complex social articulations of the Saint-Hubert Plaza. Her recent poetry collection, Because the Sun, thinks with and against Camus’ extensive notebooks and the iconic outlaw film Thelma & Louise, and was published with Coach House Books in April 2021. Her first collection Saint Twin (Mansfield: 2016) was a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize in Poetry (2016), awarded a prize from l’Académie de la vie littéraire (2017) and shortlisted for a Canadian ReLit Award. Other works have appeared in journals across Canada and the U.S., have been featured in scores by American composer J.P. Merz and have appeared with or alongside the visual art of Susanna Barlow, Jamie Macaulay and Joani Tremblay.

Amandine Coquaz is a French writer, researcher, and translator. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Keele University and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Concordia University. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, her project, ‘Listening to Montreal: a creative exploration of the city’s linguistic common grounds,’ brings together creative writing, geopoetics and oral history. She is working on a collection of short stories exploring the cohabitation of French and English in the city. One of those stories is set to appear in the next issue of The New Quarterly. The other output of her project, a set of seven participant interviews exploring Montreal and its languages, will be published as part of a Substack newsletter, entitled Listening to Montreal.