Catherine Graham Longlists for 2021 Toronto Book Awards

Join us in congratulating Catherine Graham for making the longlist of the 2021 Toronto Book Awards for her poetry collection Æther: An Out-of-Body Lyric.

In Æther Catherine Graham has created a luminous homage to family, to cancer and to the strange windings of truth. Swimming through time and space, Graham introduces her mother, her father and herself and the cancers that pull them apart and bring them together. Memories mesh with visitations and multiple stories unfold of pain and loss, hidden tragedy, forgiveness and growth. With an otherworldly delicacy Graham stitches it all together to create a book-length lyric essay of lingering and profound beauty, a paean to the complexity of love and survival.

More about the Toronto Book Awards:

Established by Toronto City Council in 1974, the Toronto Book Awards honour books of literary merit that are inspired by the city.

There are no separate categories: novels, short story collections, books of poetry, books on history, politics and social issues, biographies, books about sports, children’s and young adult books, graphic novels and photographic collections are judged together.