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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. “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 |
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| Shaista Justin emigrated to Canada at the age of six and grew up in Toronto where she currently lives with her husband and two children. Extensive travel has contributed to her fascination with colonization and the contemporary manifestations of historical tragedies. Her dominant passions are writing fiction, producing theatre, and academic research in the fields of Post-Colonial Literature & Theory, Eco-criticism, Feminist Theory and the 18th-Century. She has published in The Fiddlehead & New Contrast and works freelance as a writer and editor. | |||||
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