Reticent Bodies
by Moez Surani
September 2009
90 pages | ISBN: 978-1-894987-37-0
$17.00

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.

Reviews

• Review (Ingrid Ruthig, Northern Poetry Review, 4/1/2010)
• An Open Invitation: Moez Surani’s Reticent Bodies (Jacob McArthur Mooney, The Mansfield Revue, 2/1/2010)
• Subject, language meld into poetic voice (Jennifer Still, The Winnipeg Free Press, 12/26/2009)
• Reticent Bodies (Jacob McArthur Mooney, AdventBookBlog, 12/21/2009)
• New on my bookshelf (Paul Vermeersch, Paul Vermeersch, 11/1/2009)
• Q&A with Moez Surani, author of Reticent Bodies (Mark Medley, The National Post, 9/30/2009)
• Suspicious Mind: An Interview with Moez Surani (Alessandro Porco, Open Book Toronto, 9/28/2009)

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