Momus and celador invite you to the Brussels launch of Riverwork, Lisa Robertson’s acclaimed new novel. Robertson will be in conversation with Lauren Wetmore, artistic director of programs for Momus, in a live recording for a future episode of Momus: The Podcast. Copies of Riverwork will be available for purchase, courtesy of Quartier Libre.
Lisa Robertson’s influential body of work spans poetry and experimental prose. Her first novel, The Baudelaire Fractal, was a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Riverwork, Robertson’s much-anticipated follow-up novel, follows Lucy Frost (a writer, archivist, flaneuse, and domestic cleaner) as she takes up her disappeared great aunt’s research into the Bièvre, an ancient river under the streets of Paris. Riverwork flows through histories of industry and labor, water, and writing, propelled by Robertson’s extraordinary style.
“Riverwork is a hymn to slowness and close reading, unknowability, imperfection, wobbly human labor, false starts, and angry love.” —Claire Foster, Bookforum
About celador:
celador is a collective space for doing things with words, founded in 2023 by a reading group of ten curators working on the intersection of visual art and writing. celador does not organize exhibitions, only a programme of events that unfolds freely, always starting from someone’s writing or reading practice. celador also hosts a writing residency, runs a small press, and is located in a historical private home built in 1910 in Brussels.
