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Persaud's new collection celebrates the music in the seemingly mundane. The poems delve into ancestries and the movement and intertwining of peoples, cultures, plants, animals, cuisines, languages, loves and the passing of eras. Love and the exuberance in the world around--centered in the Florida land-(and sea-) scape--permeates this work.

Throughout his work as a physician and professor in public health, Chandrakant P Shah worked tirelessly to draw attention to the plight of these populations and to existing inequalities in Canada's institutions.

Women Wide Awake is a collection of stories, poetry, and visual art exploring folklore from the region of Sindh, Pakistan.

The Red One is a novel that explores the topics of marriage, sexual abuse, and gender expectations in the setting of a tight-knit South Asian community in Canada.

searching for eastman is a multidisciplinary performance?a choreopoem?in four acts, based on the interpretation of four of Julius Eastman's compositions?evil nigger, prelude to st joan, stay on it, and gay guerrilla. Making use of different artistic forms?poetry, theatre, music, dance, video, and digital?it is inspired by the African griot tradition, the Harlem Renaissance (eg the work of Langston Hughes with jazz and Kurt Weil), and the Black...

In his ninth collection of poetry, Keith Garebian pays attention to inner and outer realities of place and psyche, turning conventional landscape poetry inside-out. Focusing on the Lakeshore Road area of Mississauga/Etobicoke, Garebian explores small and large things, creating a space in which inner and outer landscapes connect, thereby resulting in a striking poetic vessel of cognition, perception, and sensitivity. Meditatively alert, these p...

In South Africa, in every thirty seconds a woman is raped. July Abraham, a girl at an elite school in Pretoria, South Africa, never imagined she could stop a rapist, until she falls over a classmate, Andie, in the gardens at Mark's party. Finding Andie, who has just been raped, shatters the lie that has silenced July. Now she knows that this man attacks any girl because he can. People deny or hide the crime, the cops leave him alone. She resol...

The essays in this volume continue the examination, begun in Confluences 1 and continued in Confluences 2, of the exciting new writing that has emerged in Canada in the past few decades.

Where the Baedeker Leads uncovers the many delicate layers that lie in the spaces between departures and arrivals, offering memories and stories. Whether it's about journeys, personal transition, or changes in the seasons, the aim in these poems is to draw attention to the personal experiences and social conditions that push people away from home to the new landscapes, sights, and encounters that remind them of the times and place they have so...

Silence isn't a large part of the inheritance Léa received from her Téta, her beloved Armenian grandmother, who has just died at the age of one hundred and seven. Regularly over the years her large Armenian family would gather around Téta, and she would tell stories. But there is one story that she refused to tell. Now Léa wants to find out and understand the story of her ancestors. Rima Elkouri, with great sensitivity paints the portrait of a...

His Sacred Army is the first volume of the quintet, Prison of Dreams, depicting the growth of the Tamil armed struggle in 1980s Sri Lanka. The five novels together describe the Sinhala-Tamil ethnic conflict, the hard choices faced by the minority communities subject to pogroms and oppressive laws, and the sufferings and exiles of simple villagers as the conflict finally flares up into a full-fledged and bloody civil war. His Sacred Army centre...

This book gives us a detailed look at Muslim presence in Canada, starting from the pioneer settlers from Syria/Lebanon in the early twentieth century and moving on to the more modern mid-century arrivals from South Asia and Africa. Partly told in their own words, the stories collected here give us a rare insight into the lives and successes of these pioneer Muslims. Gangs of Punjabi men in the timber mills of British Columbia, Lebanese Arabs o...

Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, 2021 Bittersweet is an exciting, accomplished collection of poems evoking both a reconstructed homeland and Scarborough (Ontario).

Feel Ways is a breakthrough anthology of works by writers of Scarborough, Ontario. It is inspired by the suburb of Scarborough, shedding light on its myths and stories.

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Ali belongs to a camel-herding family, in a Somali society riven by ancient clan rivalries. When rival clan members kill his father, Ali goes away to the nearby town. The ruling government, however, is a different clan, and soon Ali is arrested, imprisoned, and tortured. He flees to Toronto, and forms relationships, but gets trapped in the clan culture that has followed him.

These creative works and brief essays by accomplished immigrant writers offer fresh perspectives, images, and insights that richly enhance our cultural imagination. Short creative works in a variety of genres-poetry, fiction, drama, and screenplay-address issues of truth, secrecy, love, loss, connections, and community. The contributors to this volume come from Egypt, Argentina, Chile, Syria, Pakistan, India, Somalia, Ethiopia, Germany, China,...

All his life Kabelo Mosala has been the perfect child to his doting absent parents, who show him off every chance they get. A few weeks before he leaves for university, Kabelo forms a close bond with Sediba, one of his childhood friends, confirming his long-held suspicion that he is gay. Their relationship is thrown into turmoil by social pressures and conflicting desires, and it starts to look as if they can't be together. But against all odd...