Please join us to celebrate the launch of Talya Rubin's book, "Iceland Is Melting and So Are You" with poetry readings, food and drinks. More details to come!

This event will be held in the courtyard at Rabble, please find access info for Rabble here.

About the Book, Iceland Is Melting and So Are You

From Book*hug Press, Toronto

"The urgency of the climate emergency is explored in this latest collection by award-winning poet Talya Rubin. It offers recognition of, and salve for, the vast mysteries of the natural world, our human interior, and the relationship between the two.

In these poems, human and wild meet in everyday encounters: the melting of ice sheets and fathoming ecological disaster while listening to news reports on the radio; moments of childhood ice skating and unrequited love alongside geological formations and weather patterns. Underlying the collection is a mild sense of absurdity, one that mirrors our existential plight of continuing on in the face of what feels like impossibility.

Iceland Is Melting and So Are You asks us to consider what we have kept frozen and unexamined within us and—in doing so—recognize the complex grief and wonder we face in considering the end of the human epoch."

About the Author Talya Rubin

Talya Rubin is a poet and performance maker. Her poetry won the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers. In 2011, she was short-listed for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and the Winston Descant/Collins prize for Best Canadian poem. And in 2019 she had a poem on the CBC Poetry Prize long list. Talya won the Battle of the Bards at Harbourfront, Toronto and was invited to attend IFOA (International Festival of Authors) in 2015. Her first book of poetry, Leaving the Island, was published with Vehicule Press in April 2015. Talya holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia with her husband and young son. She also runs an interdisciplinary performance company, Too Close to the Sun and has toured her work to Arts House, Performance Space, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane Festival, Vitalstatistix, UNO festival, Summerworks, Wildside and Theatre La Chapelle. Talya has taught workshops at Sydney University, McGill University, NIDA (National Institute of Dramatic Arts), AFTRS (Australian Film Television and Radio School) and the Darlinghurst Theatre and has been on a jury committee for the CBC Poetry Prize in Canada and the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her second book of poetry entitled, Iceland is Melting and So Are You​ was published with Book*hug press in October 2021.