Come celebrate the launch of Sue Sinclair’s stunning new poetry collection, New-Fangled Rose! Sue will be joined by special guests, poets Puneet Dutt and Phoebe Wang, and host Jim Johnstone.
This event is free and open to the public, and books will be available for purchase.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Like a rose blooming out of season, the poems in Sue Sinclair’s newest collection are unexpected, unforgettably beautiful, and an unwavering gesture toward the slow emergency of climate crisis. With the lyrical brilliance and keen eye trained on beauty that’s characteristic of Sinclair, New-Fangled Rose reaches toward the light with reverent hands, photosynthesizing it into poems that are deft, musical, and unquestionably alive.
These poems cast a wide gaze over a fragile world, offering vibrant elegies to luna moths and crab apples, fireflies and trilliums. They examine what it is to build relationships in a world that feels increasingly precarious, like at any moment, something may end; like at any moment, something may begin.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Sue Sinclair (she/her) grew up in Newfoundland on the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk. She is the author of six previous collections of poetry, including most recently Almost Beauty: New and Selected Poems (Goose Lane Editions, 2022), winner of New Brunswick’s Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize. Heaven’s Thieves (Brick Books, 2016) won the Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. Sue teaches creative writing at the University of New Brunswick on Wəlastəkwey territory, land of the “beautiful and bountiful river.”
Puneet Dutt is a Poetry Editor at The Fiddlehead. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry London, The Rumpus, Southern Indiana Review, World Literature Today, and Best Canadian Poetry 2026. Her debut collection, The Better Monsters(Mansfield Press), was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. Born in New Delhi and raised in Jersey City, she lives in Markham, Ontario, with her partner and two children.
Phoebe Wang (she/her) is a first-generation Chinese-Canadian originally from Ottawa, the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe. She is the author of the poetry collections Admission Requirements (McClelland and Stewart, 2017), nominated for the Trillium Book Award, and Waking Occupations (McClelland and Stewart 2022). Her most recent essay collection, Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft and Community was published with Assembly Press in 2024. She is mentor in the University of Toronto Creative Writing MA program and a writing consultant supporting multilingual students at OCAD University.
