heft
From award-winning Toronto-based poet Doyali Islam comes a second collection of poems that investigates rupture and resilience.
GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE FINALIST
PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD FINALIST
TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST
How does one inhabit a world in which "the moon / & the drone hang in the same sky"? How can one be at home in one's own body in the presence of suspected autoimmune illness, chronic/recurrent pain, and a society that bears down with a particular construct of normal female sexual experience? What might a daughter salvage within a fraught relationship with a cancer-stricken father? Uncannily at ease with both high lyricism and formal innovation and invention, these poems are unafraid to lift up and investigate burdens and ruptures of all…
$21.00
March 26, 2019
DOYALI ISLAM’s poems have been published in Kenyon Review Online, The Fiddlehead, and Best Canadian Poetry, and have won several national contests and prizes. Doyali has participated in CBC Books' Why I Write video-interview series. She has discussed the value of silence on CBC Radio's The Sunday Edition; language, form, beauty, and empathy with Anne Michaels in CV2; and the relationship between poetry and the body on CBC Radio's The Next Chapter. Doyali has also been interviewed about heft through Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre Podcast. A finalist for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize, 2020 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award, heft is her second collection of poetry.
www.doyali-islam.com
