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Poetry Launch with Adriana Oniță
Saturday, June 20, 2026
2:00pm to 3:30pm
Free
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Audreys Books
June
20
20
We welcome everyone to the poetry launch of Descântec For My Split Tongue by Edmonton poet Adriana Oniță.
Oniță’s first book of poetry, gathers English-Romanian poems that travel across generations, homelands, and dreamscapes to ask: what do we lose when we lose a language? Drawn from Oniță’s childhood and her immigration from Jilava to Edmonton, the poems explore dor—a Romanian word for deep longing—for her mother tongue. Along the way, Oniță unpacks “untranslatable” Romanian words and proverbs, each a compressed zip file of culture, humour, grief, and courage. The book itself becomes a descântec—part incantation, part prayer, part spell—summoning both the failures and the triumphs of translation into a ritual of healing.
10702 Jasper Avenue
Edmonton, AB, T5J 3J5
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