ROUGH DESCRIPTION book launch details
Please join us for the launch of
Rough Description: Love Letters and Ghost Stories from a Life in Music (ECW Press), Don Pyle’s memoirish new book.
Slideshow/reading by Don Pyle, followed by a conversation moderated by Damian Rogers.
with fabulous guest readers:
Doors 7pm, starting 7:30pm
Thursday May 28 2026
Standard Time. 165 Geary Ave, 2nd floor
Advance tickets $5 https://ra.co/events/2368611 with any profit benefitting the Unison Fund, providing Canadian musicians with counselling, emergency financial support, and other resources. unisonfund.ca
Don Pyle is a Toronto artist, working primarily in music, sound, photography and writing. Author of two books, including Trouble In The Camera Club, he’s released 15 albums, has shot photos for the covers of numerous books and records, and has scored music for feature films and TV series.
Tabatha Southey is a freelance writer who is based, in Toronto. She/Her. Bylines in Globe and Mail, Macleans, Foreign Policy, Elle Magazine, National Post, Toronto Life, Explore Magazine and more. She is the author of three books.
Damian Rogers is a writer, editor, creative writing teacher, and tarot reader. She is the author of two poetry collections and the memoir An Alphabet for Joanna.
Jason McBride is a freelance writer and editor in Toronto. His biography of Kathy Acker — Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker — was published in 2022.
KIRBY is the author of She, Poetry is Queer, This Is Where I Get Off, featured columnist at Send My Love to Anyone and publisher at knife | fork | book. Their latest, Fairy, comes out Spring 2027 from Palimpsest Press.
Chris Colohan is a singer in punk and hardcore bands from the early 90s to present and author of Negative Space, No He Is Not Sleeping and the impending pandemic-era collection A Battered Tomorrow.
Rough Description was supported by the Toronto Arts Council, and the Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant program.