An Evening of Poetry with Sue Sinclair

Bookmark, Charlottetown’s independent bookstore, will host acclaimed Atlantic Canadian poet Sue Sinclair on May 28 at 7 pm. In addition to reading from her new collection New-Fangled Rose, Sue will be in conversation with Island poet Jane Ledwell. This is a free event and all are welcome.

The poems in Sue Sinclair’s newest collection are unexpected and form an unwavering gesture toward the slow emergency of the climate crisis. The lyrical brilliance and keen eye for beauty that characterize Sinclair’s work are evident in New-Fangled Rose.

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—as though, at any moment, something may end or begin.

Sinclair 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, winner of New Brunswick’s Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize. Heaven’s Thieves won the Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. Sue is the editor of The Fiddlehead and director of creative writing at UNB.