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    Port of Being

    By Shazia Hafiz Ramji

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    Shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Award
    Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
    Finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
    Longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award
    Winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry

    Voyeurism and fact go head to head in Port of Being, a debut book of poetry that mines speech from the city streets and the internet. These are poems set firmly on the threshold of the private and public, the future-haunted and the real, forging the human adrift in a terrain of space junk, drones, and addiction. Port of Being speaks just in time, navigating the worlds of surveillance, migration, and money, only to carve a way into intimacy and connection.

    "Ramji has created an insightful, thoughtful, engaging and inspiring guide to being in the digital age."—Hamilton Review of Books

    "These poems convey a tense, compelling vigilance.”—Toronto Star

    "In equal measures, this book is bioluminescent, galactic, humane. Daring and intimate, it holds worlds.”—Dani Couture, author of Listen Before Transmit

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInvisible Publishing
    Release dateOct 15, 2018
    ISBN9781988784168
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    Port of Being
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    Shazia Hafiz Ramji

    Shazia Hafiz Ramji was a finalist for the 2018 Alberta Magazine Awards, received the 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, and was a finalist for the 2016 National Magazine Awards. Her writing has appeared in Quill & Quire, Canadian Literature, the Puritan, and Metatron’s ALPHA and OMEGA. She lives in Vancouver where she works as an editor and teaches creative writing.

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