How to Nourish a Cannibal

Join Massy Books, Nightwood Editions, and Jess Housty for the launch of, How to Nourish a Cannibal on Nov 4th at 5:30 pm From award-winning, bestselling poet Jess Housty, a collection that offers nourishment through land-based medicine and ancestral wisdom. Following their critically acclaimed debut Crushed Wild Mint, Jess Housty offers a new collection capturing connections between kinship, ancestral knowledge and spirituality. Drawing on Heiltsuk supernatural beings like Báxvbakvalan̓usiwa (the Great Cannibal at the North End of the World), these poems encircle the idea of the cannibal, a complex figure who is at times dangerous but also a generous conduit for spiritual gifts. They tap into the poet’s own wildness, love and tenderness—and explore the sweet, agonizing anticipation of shared feasts, both from the land and of the body. Registration is free but required. We ask that you assess your proximity to privilege and register via donation if you're able. This event is anticipated to sell out. If you get a ticket and are later unable to attend, please make sure you cancel your ticket so someone else may take your spot - thank you! Held at Massy Books 229 E. Georgia St. Vancouver, BC, unceded and occupied territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations). Doors open at 5:00, the event starts promptly at 5:30 pm and ends at 6:15 pm in preparation for another event following this one. Books by Jess will be for sale at the event, followed by a book signing. Please refrain from wearing scents, including heavy perfumes. Covid and other Aerosolized Communicable Infections Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are recommended. If you are showing symptoms, please stay home. Thank you kindly. Jess Housty ('Cúagilákv) is a parent, writer and grassroots activist with Heiltsuk (Indigenous) and mixed settler ancestry. They serve their community as an herbalist and land-based educator alongside broader work in the non-profit and philanthropic sectors. They are inspired and guided by relationships with their homelands, their extended family and their non-human kin, and they are committed to raising their children in a similar framework of kinship and land love. They reside and thrive in their unceded ancestral territory in the community of Bella Bella, BC.