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Thursday, April 16,
2009
The Rivoli (334 Queen St. W,
Toronto)
7:00–9:00pm,
free
admission; cash bar
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TSAR Publications
presents the launch of Shaista Justin’s new
collection of poetry
  
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Critically acclaimed
musicians, performers, artists, and photographers have
joined together to help celebrate the launch of Shaista
Justin's new book. They have produced new and exciting works
inspired by the poems in Shaista's collection. Music,
theatrical readings, and a flurry of visual displays will
make this night one to remember.
Thursday, April 16,
2009
The Rivoli
334 Queen St. W,
Toronto
7:00–9:00pm
free
admission ~ cash bar ~ refreshments |
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Featuring a special introduction by Toronto mayor
“Some of these poems are vivid evocations of South Africa’s
Western Cape,
and elegies of loss; others capture moments of
longing and desire between lovers,
as well as
passages of bitterness.”
—JM Coetzee
(Nobel Prize
Winner, 2003)
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Winter,
the unwelcome visitor
is a five-section poetic cycle amending the ordinary
with the extraordinary. The work shows versatility
in style and form and yet maintains poetic
excellence: a careful balance of metaphor, imagery
and thought. Always experimental, there is no one
style that characterizes the book. From brief and
academic, to wordy and effusive, the style shifts
according to the subject. Unstintingly political,
unforgivingly critical of commonly held ideas about
the relationship of humans to the natural world and
to each other, the relevance of this work to both a
Canadian and an international audience is
undeniable.
(POETRY
ISBN 978-1-894770-52-1
Price: $16.95 80 pages)
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POETRY
ISBN:
9781894770521
Paper
$16.95
80
pages
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