BOOK LAUNCH ‘Some of Us May Live’ by Leigh Kotsilidis

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MONTREAL POETRY BOOK LAUNCH ‘Some of Us May Live’ by Leigh Kotsilidis

Readings by: LEIGH KOTSILIDIS DEANNA RADFORD (word-sound performance) & YUSUF SAADI

Leigh Kotsilidis has written two full-length collections of poetry, ‘Hypotheticals’ (2011) and ‘Some of Us May Live’ (2026), both with Coach House Books. Her poems have also appeared in journals and magazines, including The Malahat Review, Prism international, EVENT, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, and Hazlitt, as well as being anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry in English and IV Lounge Nights, among others. She is also an intermedia artist. Kotsilidis lives and works in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal).

Deanna Radford is a poet, editor, performer, and curator with an MA in creative writing from Concordia University. She teaches poetry with Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie, and her poems have appeared in The Capilano Review, Vallum, Occulto, and elsewhere. She is a member of the Linda Leith Publishing editorial board and wrote the introduction to ‘Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound’ (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024). Her poetry-sound group, Cloud Circuit, has performed across Canada, the US, and Europe, and released its debut album in 2026 on Watch That Ends the Night Records. Most recently, she co-curated the Montreal launch of the book ‘A Year of Deep Listening: 365 Text Scores for Pauline Oliveros,’ edited by Stephanie Loveless.

Yusuf Saadi's first poetry collection was published by Nightwood Editions and was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. He is currently working on a second collection. He lives in Montréal and is a PhD candidate at McGill.

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