Upcoming Events
Hunger
The Life and Poetry of Susan Musgrave
SPECIAL SCREENING
Special Screening 7pm, September 28th, 2026
Cinema Du Parc, 3575 Ave. du Parc (Montreal)
Hunger, a documentary portrait of writer, Susan Musgrave. It’s a window into her present-day life and poetry—capturing the beauty of her home on Haida Gwaii, as well as the grief she still feels from the deaths of her husband, author Stephen Reid, and their daughter, Sophie.
Image courtesy of Riel Lazarus.
Wise Women: Magic Words
Calgary Spoken Word Festival
September 17th to 20th, 2026
Calgary, Alberta
Wise Women: Magic Words is a celebration of the feminine divine – a gathering of fierce and luminous voices, each one held in high spirit. Come join these remarkable humans who have helped shape new worlds of poetry, story, song, and light dancing.
Featuring: Ashley Frerichs, Louise Bernice Halfe – Sky Dancer, Clara A. B. Joseph, Alystyre Julian, Skylar Kay, Dr. Micheline Maylor, Susan Musgrave, Sandi Somers, Shone Thistle, Anne Waldman, and Sheri-D Wilson. This year’s band will be the Wandering V’s.
Learn more:
CalgarySpokenWordFestival.com
Hunger (Released, 2025)
From Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Susan Musgrave, author of more than thirty-five books, comes Hunger, works selected from Musgrave’s last four books with an introduction by Micheline Maylor (The Bad Wife, Little Wildheart) and a humorous and thoughtful after-essay by Musgrave herself about the breadth of her literary career.
This volume features poems written since the death of Musgrave’s husband, the award-winning memoirist Stephen Reid, and showcases Musgrave’s signature blend of ribaldry, wit, and the big questions about life, love, rebellion, and aging. A visceral and hearty collection of poems, and an examination of the feminine principle in the first two decades of the 21st century, this selected volume is a tribute to Musgrave’s long career and literary wisdom.
“Here in this book, along with Micheline Maylor’s insights, is Susan Musgrave amidst her ‘inherited’ turmoil and aloneness, drawing us in and sharing her remarkable life and potent poetry.”
– Steven Ross Smith, The British Columbia Review
