Please join us for the launch of Baby Cerberus by Natasha Ramoutar with special guest Sanna Wani, 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 10, 2024 at Another Story Bookshop in Toronto.

Presented by Toronto Lit Up!, Toronto International Festival of Authors, Another Story Bookshop and Wolsak and Wynn.

About the Book

The poems in Baby Cerberus are ethereal, soul-stirring and suffused with a playful intelligence. Natasha Ramoutar’s second collection traces joy and kinship across a multitude of lives and lived experiences. Shifting deftly from classical mythology and folklore to video games to speculative futures, each poem asks us to consider how we care for one another. As we move through sentient galleries, swashbuckling adventures and the doors of Atlantis, the collection reorients us in each section with a riddle, always inviting the reader to play along, tugging on the invisible threads between us all, trying to find what tethers us together and, in turn, what keeps us here. Joyous and multilayered, this is a book that’s fast enough for the speed of information and powerful enough to stop you in your tracks.

Natasha Ramoutar

Natasha Ramoutar is a writer of Indo-Guyanese descent from Toronto. Her debut collection of poetry, Bittersweet, published in 2020 by Mawenzi House, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She was the editor of FEEL WAYS, an anthology of Scarborough literature. She is a senior editor with Augur Magazine and serves on the editorial board at Wolsak & Wynn.

Sanna Wani

Sanna Wani is a poet in Toronto. She is the author of My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi Press, 2022), the winner of the 2023 Trillium Award for Poetry. She is the creator and cohost of the podcast, Poet Talk, and a member of the Daybreak Poets Collective.