Danny Jacobs

AX Literary Series: Danny Jacobs

August 8, 630pm

AX Literary Series:

Friday, August 8, 630pm
FREE Event. Donations welcomed and appreciated.

Join us on Friday, August 8th in the AX Gallery (12 Maple Ave, Sussex, NB) for a special evening with Local author Danny Jacobs . Moderated by, this event will feature readings from Jacobs’s latest novel Ignis Psalter(2025).

This free event is part of the AX Literary Series—donations are welcomed and appreciated.

Come out and enjoy the experience of this promising Canadian author.

Bio

Danny Jacobs’s poems, fiction, reviews, and essays have been published in a variety of journals across Canada. His book of nonfiction, Sourcebooks for Our Drawings: Essays and Remnants (Gordon Hill Press, 2019), won the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick Book Award for Nonfiction. His debut novel, The Ignis Psalter (The Porcupine’s Quill), came out in April 2025. Danny lives in Riverview, NB.

Book Description

1913: After an incident of familial violence, budding arsonist Cotton Steeves is left with burn scars on his back that show an oddly mirrored geometry. Burdened by his would-be magician uncle, who grows obsessed with the scars’ properties, Cotton looks for a way out from under his increasingly erratic influence. It’s time for his next fire.

1993: Ten-year-old Morton Lounsbury collects things. His prized possession is The Ignis Psalter—an anonymous book of pyromaniacal spiritualism addressed to an initiate of flame. And someone or something—ghost, rumour, urban legend—is connected to the book. A meeting with an ageless recluse named Cotton Steeves will change everything Mort knew about his hometown.

Welcome to Petitcodiac, New Brunswick. Welcome to The Village of Fire. In this village of outsiders, moonshiners, fox farmers, and conjurors, a fire-haunted place where the next blaze never seems far away, Cotton must contend with his family’s legacy of burning. and with the help of young Mort Lounsbury, confront his uncle’s shadow once and for all.

Part lyric fairy tale, part small town gothic, The Ignis Psalter is the bizarre and pulpy debut novel from poet and essayist Danny Jacobs.

Moderator Bio

Vanessa Moeller’s poems and short stories have appeared in numerous periodicals including The Fiddlehead, Prism International, The Antigonish Review, CV2, and The Pottersfield Portfolio and have won several awards, including the Atlantic Poetry Prize and an honourable mention in the poetry category of the National Magazine Awards. Her book, Our Extraordinary Monsters, was published by Signature Editions. She completed her MA in creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. Originally from Sussex, she now lives in Moncton where she is Senior Creative Writer at m5 the agency.

Danny Jacobs

AX Literary Series: Danny Jacobs

AX Literary Series:

Danny Jacobs

Bio

Book Description

Moderator Bio

Acknowledgements

Thank you to the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Heritage and Culture for their support of this event.