Join Massy Books on October 3rd for the launch of Shazia Hafiz Ramji's debut trade poetry collection, "Port of Being,"
winner of the 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Out via Invisible Publishing.

Hosted by Kevin Spenst and including readings by Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Junie Desil, Yilin Wang, and Jen Currin, this will be a night of poetry you won't want to miss!

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.

“If the city is a machine of social sublimation, then these poems are the glint of its gears. Ramji demonstrates with devastating energy how form (and/or your soul) is infrastructure. You could drown in the static of our times, or you could traverse it like an ocean. Port of Being is an ingenious manual, in verse, for how to do the latter.” – Wayde Compton
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This event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.

Massy Books' downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/
Please feel free to reach out with any inquiries.

The event is all-ages, but we will have beer and wine available for purchase.