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Rob McLennan's Blog Review February 2, 2022

https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2022/02/chantal-gibson-withholding-poems.html

Poetry Foundation Harriet Books Review by Megan Fernandes

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet-books/reviews/157165/with-holding

CBC Best Poetry of 2021

https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-canadian-poetry-of-2021-1.6284181

CBC Spark Interview https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/social-media-platforms-benefit-from-the-intersections-of-racism-and-capitalism-1.6189164

Quill and Quire https://quillandquire.com/authors/chantal-gibson-examines-the-politics-of-add-to-cart-culture-and-activism/

Toronto Star Review https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/reviews/2021/09/09/embrace-life-in-all-its-joy-and-contradictions-with-4-new-books-by-canadian-poets.html

CBC 34 Books for Fall 2021 https://www.cbc.ca/books/34-great-canadian-books-to-check-out-in-fall-2021-1.6201922

CBC 45 Canadian Poetry Collections for Fall 2021 https://www.cbc.ca/books/45-canadian-poetry-collections-to-watch-for-in-fall-2021-1.6125796

CBC Books https://www.cbc.ca/books/with-holding-1.6134215

All Lit Up https://alllitup.ca/books/W/with-holding#overview

Art Installation Celebrates Black womanhood https://www.lib.sfu.ca/about/reach-us/news-events/unsettled-exhibit

Art Installation Tributing Breonna Taylor https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/unsettled-art-installation-sfu-vancouver

SFU Celebrates Black Womanhood Through Art https://the-peak.ca/2021/03/sfu-celebrates-black-womanhood-through-art/

Reading Black Women, Art, Poetry and Place https://www.wordvancouver.ca/2021-events/2021/2/10/unsettled-reading-black-women-in-the-streets

An un/settling event: readings and reflections https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/an-unsettling-event-readings-reflections-on-black-art-identity-place-tickets-137691957351

Mixed media piece makes much needed statement from the Senate buildinghttps://vancouversun.com/entertainment/local-arts/mixed-media-piece-makes-a-much-needed-statement-from-the-senate-building

SIAT artist's Senate artwork raises social  awareness for Black Canadian voiceshttps://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2020/10/siat-artist-s-senate-artwork-raises-social-awareness-for-black-c.html

Chantal Gibson wins Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 

https://www.sfu.ca/siat/stories/siat-news/chantal-gibson-wins-dorothy-livesay-poetry-prize.html

CBC 24 Canadian Writers on the Rise 2020

https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-cbc-books-writers-to-watch-list-24-canadian-writers-on-the-rise-in-2020-1.5666130

25 Books About Being Black in Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/books/25-books-about-being-black-in-canada-1.5596949

Chantal Gibson wins Pat Lowther Award

https://bcbooklook.com/2020/05/11/chantal-gibson-win-lowther-award/

Vancouver Poet Scores National Prize

https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/vancouver-poet-scores-national-prize

League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Award

http://poets.ca/2020/05/11/2020-lowther-award-winner/

Gibson's Poetic Pyrotechnics

https://ormsbyreview.com/2020/04/18/804-saklikar-gibson-how-she-read/

49th Shelf Chat

https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2020/05/12/The-Chat-with-the-Canadian-finalists-for-the-2020-Griffin-Prize-for-Poetry

Interview w Rob McLennan

https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2020/05/griffin-poetry-prize-shortlist-2020_13.html

Griffin Finalists Role on Writing in the Pandemic

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2020/05/13/griffin-finalists-on-the-role-of-poetry-in-the-era-of-pandemic-writing/

Globe and Mail Griffin Prize Nominees Reflect

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-griffin-prize-nominees-reflect-on-their-work-the-cancelled-gala-and/

CBC 6 Books that Shaped Griffin Prize Nominees

https://www.cbc.ca/books/griffin-poetry-prize-finalist-chantal-gibson-shares-6-books-that-shaped-her-life-1.5566156

CBC Read a Poem from Griffin Finalist

https://www.cbc.ca/books/read-a-poem-from-griffin-poetry-prize-finalist-how-she-read-by-chantal-gibson-1.5569796

Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist

http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/awards-and-poets/shortlists/2020-shortlist/chantal-gibson/

Poetry Pause League of Canadian Poet April 2020

http://poets.ca/2020/03/25/chantal-gibson-howsheread/

"How She Read" Chantal Gibson's Anthem for Black Sisterhood Feb. 3

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2020/02/03/Chantal-Gibson-Anthem-Black-Sisterhood/

The Capilano Review 

https://thecapilanoreview.com/chantal-gibson-how-she-read/

WaxPoetic CO-OP RADIO Interview Feb. 5

https://www.coopradio.org/content/wax-poetic-142

CBC Books of the Year 2019

https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-canadian-poetry-of-2019-1.5388653

Black Agenda Report

https://www.blackagendareport.com/bar-book-forum-chantal-gibsons-how-she-read

CBC Decolonizing Minds Through Poetry

https://www.cbc.ca/books/chantal-gibson-on-decolonizing-minds-through-poetry-1.5104024

Quill & Quire Review

https://quillandquire.com/review/how-she-read/

26 Poets to Read for Poetry Month

https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2019/04/15/26-Books-to-Celebrate-for-Poetry-Month

Up and coming poets to read

https://www.cbc.ca/books/11-collections-from-up-and-coming-canadian-poets-to-read-1.5084728

Latest poetry explores inner struggles and questions the world in which we live https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2019/03/07/latest-poetry-explores-inner-struggles-and-questions-the-world-in-which-we-live.html

Read Local BC Interview 

https://www.readlocalbc.ca/2019/04/04/interview-chantal-gibson-national-poetry-month/

 CBC Radio North by Northwest with Khalil  Akhtar

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/search/?query=chantal%20gibson

CBC Radio On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/on-the-coast/episode/15670324

All Lit Up Review 

https://alllitup.ca/Blog/2019/Beautiful-Books-How-She-Read

SFU News  

https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2019/02/new-literary-work--gives-voice-to-black-women-during-black-histo.html

Excited About Everything Interview with Isabella Wang

https://roommagazine.com/interview/excited-about-everything-chantal-gibson

49th Shelf Editor's Pick Feb 18-25

https://49thshelf.com/Lists/Members/2019-08/Editors-Picks-Week-of-February-18-24

SFU Peak Article

https://the-peak.ca/2019/03/what-black-history-month-means-in-vancouver/

Quick and Dirty Interview with Chelene Knight

https://cheleneknight.com/quick-and-dirty/2019/2/25/the-quick-amp-dirty-on-visual-art-and-writing-with-chantal-gibson

CBC list of 20 Works of Poetry for Spring 2019 

https://www.cbc.ca/books/20-works-of-canadian-poetry-to-check-out-in-spring-2019-1.4988169

CBC 6 Black Canadian Writers to Watch in 2019 

https://www.cbc.ca/books/6-black-canadian-writers-you-should-know-about-in-2019-1.5004618

CBC Books

https://www.cbc.ca/books/how-she-read-1.4991040

A Grammar of Loss Explores the Actualities of Decolonization  

https://www.nexusnewspaper.com/2020/02/19/a-grammar-of-loss-explores-the-actualities-of-decolonization/

The Chronicle Herald

https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/community/exhibit-explores-dismantles-racism-287375/

Ross Creek Event

https://valleyevents.ca/67350

Maritime Art List

https://www.maritimeartlist.com/2019/01/

Room Magazine Review with Chelene Knight

https://roommagazine.com/blog/experiencing-chantal-gibson%E2%80%99s-exhibit-how-she-read-confronting-romance-empire

Times Colonist

https://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/artist-takes-on-colonialist-culture-with-installation-at-open-space-1.23588453

NEXUS Review

http://www.nexusnewspaper.com/2019/01/23/chantal-gibson-rewrites-canadas-whites-only-historical-narrative/

UVIC News

https://events.uvic.ca/view/event/event_id/39365

CanadianArt 

https://canadianart.ca/agenda/chantal-gibson-how-she-read-confronting-the-romance-of-empire/

Galleries West 

http://www.gallerieswest.ca/events/chantal-gibson-how-she-read-confronting-the-romance-of-empir/

Sooke News Mirror

https://www.sookenewsmirror.com/entertainment/open-space-starts-2019-with-needlepoint-narrative/

Black Canadian Art Exhibition that delves into 'complicated' history arrives in Halifax

https://www.thestar.com/halifax/2019/06/01/black-canadian-art-exhibition-that-delves-into-complicated-history-arrives-in-halifax.html

Here We Are Here and the complicated presence of Blackness in Canada

https://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/here-we-are-here-and-the-complicated-presence-of-blackness-in-canada/Content?oid=21814139

Nova Scotia Exhibition Explores Being Black in Canada

https://www.thechronicleherald.ca/living/art-gallery-of-nova-scotia-exhibition-explores-being-black-in-canada-318598/

Black is Canadian

https://canadianart.ca/reviews/black-is-canadian

New show returns ROM to African Canadian Issues https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/visualarts/2018/01/28/new-show-returns-rom-to-african-canadian-issues-and-scores-a-provocative-success.html

Now Toronto Chris Rattan

https://nowtoronto.com/culture/art-and-design/the-rom-here-we-are-here-pushes-back-narrow-views-blackness/

Black in Vancouver

http://thelasource.com/en/2018/02/05/black-history-in-vancouver/

Real Style Magazine

https://www.realstylenetwork.com/lifestyle/2018/01/the-rom-presents-here-we-are-here-black-canadian-contemporary-art/

Picasso Recovers Early Arts at MBAM

https://mauditsfrancais.ca/2018/05/11/picasso-inspire-au-musee-des-beaux-arts-de-montreal/

Montreal Times

http://mtltimes.ca/Montreal/entertainment/art/black-canadian-contemporary-art-alongside-from-africa-to-the-americas-face-to-face-picasso/