Goose Lane Editions and Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd. present an evening of new poetry by Soraya Peerbaye and Moez Surani at Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay Street, at 6:30 pm. Soraya and Moez will read selections from their books. A book signing will follow and refreshments will be served. All are welcome.
TORONTO
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 6:30pm
Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay Street
Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names by Soraya Peerbaye is an unusual collection that examines the relationships between names and gestures of kinship, acquisitiveness, and possession. Divided into three sections, the book examines the relationship between people and objects and names. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an actual organization which decides official place names in Antarctica — most often inspired by national symbols, expedition leaders, and heroes.
Reticent Bodies is Toronto author Moez Surani's long-awaited debut collection. Shaped by a childhood spent listening to a mixture of Gujarati, Kutchi, Urdu, and Swahili around the kitchen table, while attending a French Immersion school in Toronto, Surani's poems could define the epitome of Canada's ethnic layering. Spare Canadian lyricism is combined with unusual linguistic rhythms and sharp bursts of vibrant imagery in an exceptional poetic debut.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Soraya Peerbaye is of Mauritian ancestry. She was born in London, Ontario, and has lived in Toronto and Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean, which was handed to the British by the French in 1810 and later gained independence in 1967. She has worked as a playwright, actor, and as an arts administrator (for the Canada Council for the Arts and the Toronto Arts Council), translator (for Queen of Puddings Music Theatre Company, Métropolis Bleu, the Museum of Civilization, and the Canada Council for the Arts), editor (Alphonse, Wedding Day at the Cro-Magnons, and Littoral by Wadji Mouawad for Theatre Direct), and writer. She has worked with a diverse range of organizations including Nightwood Theatre and Desh Pardesh.
Moez Surani’s writing has been included in numerous anthologies and literary journals including Carousel, Prairie Fire, Vallum, and Arc Poetry Magazine. He has served as writer-in-residence for the Toronto Catholic School Board and curator for the Strong Words Reading Series in Toronto. He was the recipient of a 2008 Chalmers Arts Fellowship, which supported a trip through India and East Africa.
MORE INFORMATION, IMAGES, INTERVIEWS, OR REVIEW COPIES, CONTACT:
FOR MOEZ SURANI: FOR SORAYA PEERBAYE:
Lindsay Hodder, Publisher's Assistant Susan Baker, Publicity & Promotions
Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd. Goose Lane Editions
(905) 972-9885 / lindsay@wolsakandwynn.ca (888) 926-8377 / sbaker@gooselane.com
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