Remarkable poet Mark Nowak and Montreal-based poet and editor Michael Nardone discuss the contours of Nowak’s singular literary production over these last two decades. The conversation will focus on Nowak’s ongoing body of worker poetry – represented in his groundbreaking books such as Shut Up Shut Down and Coal Mountain Elementary – to open up a dialogue on Nowak’s most recent essay, Social Poetics. This work documents the imaginative militancy

Volume 1 MTL Art and the Book ARCMTL is proud to unveil the programme for its newest project, Volume 1 MTL : an Art Book Fair prefaced with a week full of presentations, workshops and discussions about artists’ books and books on art. This programme invites the curious to discover places and people that are at the core of artists’ book production in Montreal, and take in presentations of recent