Rob Manery + Brian Day Poetry

OUR WEEKLY in-person events take place at Russell Books 747 Fort Street in downtown Victoria Doors at 7:00pm, event at 7:30pm, sign up for the open mic in person between 7:00–7:20. Unless otherwise noted, in person events will be livestreamed HERE (Meeting ID: 494 660 4447 /Passcode: 2129) **livestream begins at approx. 8:00–8:15pm with featured readings** Rob Manery lives in Vancouver, BC on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and the Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, where he is the editor of Some, a print-only poetry magazine. He is the author of It’s Not As If It Hasn’t Been Said Before, and the chapbooks Richter-Rauzer Variations; Many, Not Any; and Elegies. Influenced by John Cage and Jackson Mac Low, Robert Manery’s As They Say often fuses chance procedures with intentional composition that is attentive to the aural possibilities of language, cognizant of Zukofsky’s definition of poetry as having a “lower limit speech/upper limit music.” The poems in this book range from austere elegies to playful gestures towards narrative, alert to the ambiguities of language and form. Rob Manery lives in Vancouver, BC on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and the Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, where he is the editor of Some, a print-only poetry magazine. He is the author of It’s Not As If It Hasn’t Been Said Before, and the chapbooks Richter-Rauzer Variations; Many, Not Any; and Elegies. Influenced by John Cage and Jackson Mac Low, Robert Manery’s As They Say often fuses chance procedures with intentional composition that is attentive to the aural possibilities of language, cognizant of Zukofsky’s definition of poetry as having a “lower limit speech/upper limit music.” The poems in this book range from austere elegies to playful gestures towards narrative, alert to the ambiguities of language and form.