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Welcome acclaimed poet Myna Wallin to The Little Boathouse. We’re delighted to hear her read her piece, 3 a.m. Tango.

Myna’s latest poetry collection, The Suicide Tourist, was recently released with Ekstasis Editions and confronts themes of depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder with unflinching boldness and compassion.

In this mental health confessional, poems about depression, mania, suicidal ideation, and the challenge of living with these disabilities are tackled with naked honesty and deep humour. In The Suicide Tourist, Wallin supersedes the stigma surrounding mental illness and excavates the themes of anxiety, fear, instability, mortality, and ultimately, liberation.

About Myna Wallin:

Myna Wallin, a Toronto-born poet and prose writer, has been published in Antigonish Review, Vallum Magazine, Quarantine Review, Sledgehammer, and The Literary Review of Canada, among many others. Myna has a master’s degree in English from the University of Toronto. Wallin was longlisted for the 2022 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest. Her short fiction received an honourable mention in Esoterica Magazine’s Inaugural Fiction Contest, 2023. Myna’s first two books were A Thousand Profane Pieces and Confessions of a Reluctant Cougar (Tightrope Books, 2006, and 2010 respectively). Anatomy of An Injury, her third book, was published by Inanna Publications (2018).

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