Teva Harrison Book Launch

Anansi Bookshop

Join us for an evening of poetry, dance, and colouring to celebrate the launch of Not One of These Poems Is About You by Teva Harrison.

House of Anansi Press and Groundwood Books

Join House of Anansi Press for an evening of poetry, dance, colouring, and creativity as we celebrate the launch of <a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/not-one-of-these-poems-is-about-you" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Not One of These Poems Is About You</a> by Teva Harrison.Teva was an important friend of House of Anansi, and we’re honoured to be publishing her posthumous collection of poetry and drawings. We learned so much from Teva about what it means to be human, and how to live and love with an open heart, through good times and bad. We will miss her terribly but her spirit lives on in her work, and in this new book, and for that we are grateful.

This event will celebrate the creativity that lives in all of us, and the publication of a book that Teva was so proud to create.
About Not One of These Poems Is About YouIn this remarkable, frank, and gut-wrenching mix of words and images, Teva continues on her journey, grappling with what it means to live with metastatic breast cancer. She plunges deep into her inner world, shadowing the progression of the disease. Reality takes on sharp edges: the swell of cancer and its retreat with chemo. Her inner corporeal reality versus her outer manifestation of health, vitality, and femininity. Holding fast to the great love of her life, while preparing to leave him behind. Contemplating who she was before cancer, and who she is now.Starkly honest and wholly profound, <a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/not-one-of-these-poems-is-about-you" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Not One of These Poems Is About You</a> distills life to its essence. Teva Harrison continues to gift the world with her clear-eyed insight and her open heart.

TEVA HARRISON (1976–2019) was an author and visual artist. She wrote and illustrated the critically acclaimed graphic memoir <a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/inbetween-days" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">In-Between Days</a>, which was the winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Nonfiction, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Joe Shuster Award for Cartoonist or Auteur, and was a Globe and Mail, National Post, Kobo, and Quill &amp; Quire Book of the Year. Forty-five works from In-Between Days have been exhibited in a solo show at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. Teva was Principal Illustrator for the National Film Board/National Theatre production of playwright Jordan Tannahill’s Draw Me Close: A Memoir, a virtual reality theatrical experience blending live theatre and virtual reality technology.She was a finalist for the Canadian Magazine Award and the National Magazine Award, and her writing appeared in the Walrus, Granta, Quill &amp; Quire, the Huffington Post, Carte Blanche, Reader’s Digest (Canada, U.S., and International editions), the Globe and Mail, and more. She was a regular commentator on CBC Radio, in the Toronto Star, and in the Globe and Mail, and she appeared on programs including Canada AM, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, Space TV’s InnerSpace, The Morning Show, and in Maclean’s, Chatelaine, and Rabble.ca. She was also the illustrator of <a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-joyful-living-colouring-book" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Joyful Living Colouring Book</a>.

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