Tomorrow at 7pm!

We're launching the new collection by #BillyRayBelcourt as part of our September events programme with #AndrewMcMillan.

In 'The Idea of An Entire Life', Belcourt explores 21st-century anguish, love, queerness, and political possibility.

See you there? Register: bit.ly/4nfuj3C

Billy-Ray Belcourt (born 1995)

NDN Homopoetics 1. I hoard dirt in my ears; months later, I pull out a summer dress. The dress is not a dress to be worn but to be hung, like a flag on a wobbly pole that is noticed only when crowded in the mouths of those near it. The dress is not a dress to be worn but to be hung, like an NDN condemned to death by the judiciary of historical ignorance, an enactment of white fellowship and care. We all bear the dress, not as an article of clothing, but as an ontological imprint. To bear is not to wear, of course. To bear and to birth, however, are from the same neighborhood of experience. It is there, in the neighborhood of experience, that my childhood home is nowhere to be found. And so, my childhood home could be anything, even a dress made out of dirt. - Billy-Ray Belcourt

"Billy-Ray Belcourt: a poet of radical tenderness, weaving Indigenous identity, love, and resistance into luminous verse. 🌎 His words carve space for healing and defiance, reshaping the literary landscape with bold imagination. Celebrate his voice and vision. #BillyRayBelcourt #Poetry

COEXISTENCE by Billy-Ray Belcourt: Fall in love with this collection of short stories centering Indigenous love and what it is to make a relationship. https://bookriot.com #Coexistence #BillyRayBelcourt