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The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose by Zehra Naqvi

April 11, 2025February 14, 2025 by Peter Midgley

The Knot of My Tongue: Prose and Poems is a complex and rewarding read that has drawn me back to the poems repeatedly.

Categories Featured Posts, History, Poetry Tags History, language, Poetry

IGoli | EGoli: Poems by Salimah Valiani

November 3, 2024 by Pearl Pirie

The meaning of the title IGoli | EGoli: Poems, by Salimah Valiani is not self-evident without a search. What does it mean? eGoli means “Place of Gold”.

Categories Featured Posts, Poetry Tags language, Naming, Poetry in conversation, translation
A dark blue background with many constellations. "Imagining" is written in big white block letters at the top of the image and again at the bottom of the image. "Essays" and the author's name are in small cursive letters among the constellations.

Imagining Imagining by Gary Barwin

March 23, 2024 by Susan Wismer

There is an intimacy to walking with my dog at night”, says Gary Barwin, in this small book of wonder tales.

Categories Essays, Non-Fiction Tags Essays, language, nonfiction

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig

May 1, 2023January 24, 2022 by Glenda MacDonald

A truly original book in every sense of the word, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows poetically defines emotions that we all feel but don’t have the words to express—until now.

Categories Non-Fiction Tags language, slang, vocabulary

Undoing Hours by Selina Boan

June 2, 2022August 15, 2021 by Zoe Shaw

Selina Boan’s Undoing Hours foregrounds play with linguistics and poetics to explore liminalities of identity and family in the context of a half-Cree, half-white settler speaker.

Categories Poetry Tags Cree, Indigenous, language, poems, Poetry

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