Peace Akintade’s Saskatoon Launch of The Goat’s Tounge
Join Saskatchewan’s 11th poet laureate, Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye, for the Saskatoon launch of her latest poetry collection, The Goat’s Tongue (Metatron Press), hosted by Miguel Fenrich.
This event will be held in the Travel Alcove and as a simultaneous YouTube livestream.
The Goat’s Tongue is an interdisciplinary poetry collection by Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Saskatchewan’s 11th Poet Laureate. Moving between poetry, Yoruba folklore, performance art, and symbolic language, the book follows the story of a girl, a goat, and an owl as they navigate vulnerability, belonging, memory, and the grief of rejection. Rooted in childhood memory, ancestral knowledge, and postcolonial questions of isolation and communication, The Goat’s Tongue bridges oral literature and the contemporary page, offering a haunting, intimate, and formally inventive work about the struggle to speak, the hunger for belonging, and the transformative power of poetry.
Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye is Saskatchewan’s 11th Poet Laureate, an African-Canadian interdisciplinary poet, public speaker, chorus-poem playwright, and thespian based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Organically from Yorubaland, Nigeria, her work explores the intersections of poetry, folklore, dance, performance art, theology, neo-poetics, theatre, and community engagement. She is the author of Earth Skin, Equanimity in Sonder, Equanimity in Conversation, and The Taste of Sonder. Her play Madness with Rocks was selected for the 21 Black Futures project with Obsidian Theatre and CBC Gem, and her play Painted Elephant was shortlisted for the IBPOC 2021 Persephone Theatre Commission before debuting with Black Theatre Workshop and the National Arts Centre. She is a recipient of the RBC SaskArts Emerging Artist Award and the Platinum Jubilee Queen’s Medal.
Miguel Fenrich (he/they) is a Queer, Sudanese-Canadian storyteller, cultural worker, novelist and poet from Treaty 6 Territory in Saskatoon. As a Truthteller and Future Historian, his work examines joy, connection, and community care in relationship with land and space. Fenrich is the author of Blue: A Novel and What Lies in the Valley. He is the President of the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild, a Senator for the University of Saskatchewan, and a Director for the National Book and Periodical Council. This year, they were recognized as a CBC Saskatchewan Future 40 Winner for his impact on the Arts and Entertainment industry in Saskatchewan.
More information here: Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye Book Launch – McNally Robinson Booksellers
