RODAISUN is a literary performance group and monthly triadic print publication formed by multidisciplinary artists Iva Čelebić, Catherine Machado, and Emma Cosgrove. After meeting in a university reporting class in 2013, the three began a long-term collaboration that has expanded into a shared, experimentally driven poetic practice. Since July 2021, RODAISUN has released a new print publication every month, which is distributed to several Montreal stockists and shipped through a subscription-based mailing service. Each issue features visual art created by a Montréal-based artist. The poetry project now includes over 55 issues and more than a 1,000 poems exploring themes of memory, ecology, time, the body, loss, and absurdity. They are heavily influenced by the second generation of New York School Poets for their ability to investigate daily life in a rhythmic way, layering voices to create an infinite community pulse. The three voices interweave past, present, and future—forming a triangular structure in which individual styles overlap, synchronize, and diverge, often responding to one another in real time. This collaborative methodology extends into live performance and event-based programming. RODAISUN organizes readings and hosts workshop events such as the Writer’s Block series, a recurring creative gathering that combines writing with live improvised jazz. In 2023, RODAISUN were finalists for Best English Publication at The Expozine Alternative Press Awards. The group has participated in numerous street markets and literary events, including Yolk’s Literary Oktoberfest, VANS’ L’Appel Fest Montréal and POP Montréal. Their work has been profiled by CKUT Radio, The Pit Periodical and Niche MTL, and their readings have been broadcast on the independent artist radio N10.AS.
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Emma Cosgrove is an Irish-Canadian filmmaker, artist, and poet based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Her work is informed by geological inquiry and the memory of stone. Through hybrid documentary-fiction, she explores the life cycles of objects, tracing the movement of materials between the natural and the manufactured world. Her work frequently combines poetic language with images shot on MiniDV, 8mm, and 16mm film, situating her practice at the intersection of nature, machines, fact and fiction. Her poetry has appeared in The Sun Room and The Pit Periodical. Her films and music videos have been presented by NoBudge, Eternal Family, Kinoskop Analog Film Festival, the International Festival of Films on Art (FiFA), Bogotá Music Video Festival, Canada Shorts, and Sweden Film Awards.
Iva Čelebić is a Bosnian-Canadian artist, writer, and bookseller living in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Her heliocentric poetry explores themes of silence, wildness, identity, and displacement by revisiting daily actions. She seeks reconnection to the essential and organic self, by treating the poem as a site of transmission between psyche, nature and spirit. She is the founder of small press, Grapeseed Books and The Sun Room, a literary journal dedicated to ecological writing and art-making. Her writing has been published by Galerie Erga, Running Man Press, The Veg, Mai/son, The Pit Periodical, and Editorial Magazine. She also hosts the monthly book club, Women on the Run at Librairie St-Henri Books, centering under-recognized female authors.
Catherine Machado is an artist, theatre creator, and award-winning archive producer based in Tiohtià:ke (Montréal). Her play ‘The Womb is a Room in Another Person’ premiered at the 2025 Montréal Fringe, earning a nomination for Most Promising Emerging English Producer. She performed the role of Time in Marcela Szwarc’s ‘Raj Na Ziemi / Paradise on Earth’ (2024). She is the creator of CAT CRUSH (Grapeseed Books, 2022), a newsletter-turned poetry book on intimacy during a pandemic, culminating in a performative launch in a staged domestic space featuring video art and a kissing booth sculpted with papier-mâché. Her work engages mysticism, social narratives, and embodied memory, transmuting the absurd through an intimate, psychic lens. Her practice is experimental, working across live performance, literature, sculpture, and film. Her visual research has received national recognition, including a Canadian Screen Award (2024).
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