Aeolus House welcomed JC Sulzenko as a guest reader at the May 24 launch of “Slender Certainties” by Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes

Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes’ new collection launched on Saturday, May 24 in Toronto at Society Clubhouse.

JC welcomed the invitation from publisher Aeolus House to read at this afternoon celebration of Mary Lou’s fine poetry.

JC choose selections from Life, after life–from epitaph to epilogue, her 2024 collection of found poems using words drawn from obituaries published in the Globe and Mail and from Bricolage, a Gathering of Centos, a finalist for the 2022 Fred Kerner Book Award from the Canadian Authors Association.

JC explained that she writes centos and found poetry under her pen name, A. Garnett Weiss. “To give me distance from my other poetry and licence to move toward more abstract forms of expression.”

“I was honoured to read at the launch of Mary Lou’s luminous, memorable collection.,The hall was packed. The audience listened carefully to Dorothy Sandler-Glick, who read first, and then to me. The response from everyone there heartened me, ” JC noted. Here’s the poster for the event.

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