New Book Alert 📢 Circumtrauma - 2025 with @Coachhousebooks!
Toronto, Ontario
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So grateful to the team at Open Book for hosting this interview! I really appreciate the thoughtful conversation and the chance to connect with readers. If the interview piques your interest, I hope you'll check out the book! Copies available @coachhousebooks
Internationally celebrated poet Jumoke Verissimo's new collection CIRCUMTRAUMA (@CoachHouseBooks) is a haunting poetic reckoning. Check out this fascinating interview with the author right here!
#AmReading #Poetry #Verse #BookTwt
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Internationally celebrated poet Jumoke Verissimo's new collection CIRCUMTRAUMA (@CoachHouseBooks) is a haunting poetic reckoning. Check out this fascinating interview with the author right here!
#AmReading #Poetry #Verse #BookTwt
open-book.ca/News/Jumoke-Ver…
ALT Book banner featuring the cover of Circumtrauma by Jumoke Verissimo. The cover shows abstract circular shapes in shades of gray and red. On the right side, white text on a maroon background reads: “Author of Circumtrauma — Interview with Jumoke Verissimo.” The Open Book logo appears at the bottom right.
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Parenting isn’t always easy. But it’s full of unforgettable moments.
UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador @angeliquekidjo shares the challenges she faced and the joy she found in raising her child, with a little help from music.
#EarlyMomentsMatter
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Congratulations to the 15 @TorontoMet researchers who have been selected as recipients of the 2025 @SSHRC_CRSH Explore Grant competition. See the full list of recipients and their subjects here: tinyurl.com/42w2r4z6 #research #innovation
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Our review of @awapointe's, 'A Small Silence' was a delightful experience... We didn't expect to love the book as much we did; it was a literal case of do not judge a book by its cover.
The book received an average rating of 3.7/5👏
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New quarter, new book...
This month at The Port Harcourt Bookclub, we're reading, 'A Small Silence' by @awapointe.
Get a copy from @Bookvilleworld or @Rovingheights, if you don't already have one
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I will not clean the poem to impress the tyrant;
I will not bend my verses into the bow of a praise song.
I will put the symbols of murder hidden in high offices
In the centre of my crude lines of accusations.
I will undress our land and expose her wounds.
--Frank Chipasula.
"Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it." - Frantz Fanon
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Join us from around the world for
International Women's Day Reading 2025: Feminist Virtues and Vices
@CanadianPoets
#IWD, #IWD2025, #InternationalWomensDay, #feminist, #FeministCaucus, #poetry, #poets, #Canadian, #CanadianPoets, #FeministPoetry
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Writers and artists: we want you! (We pay!)
Send us art, fiction, poems, essays, and hybrid forms that take risks for ROOM 48.4! Topics of interest: urgency, complicity, past & present, Afrosurrealism, Indigenous futurism, a free Palestine, & more.❤️🔥
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ALT ROOM 48.4 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS / ROLLING SUBMISSIONS PERIOD / SEEKING ART, POETRY, FICTION, NON-FICTION
I will leave my shortstory on the agbero problem here: olongoafrica.com/city-wise-o…
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Elegiac Negotiations: Neville Dawes through Kwame Dawes’s Eyes, by Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto worldliteraturetoday.org/blo…
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"The amulet of meritocracy has failed, obviously. / This is the junta of happenstance."
Tolu Oloruntoba’s (@toluini) 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙅𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙖 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 (Palimpsest Press) is a collection that dismantles the illusion of fairness and reckons with randomness, survival, dis-ease, and social injustices.
Winner of both the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the book is, as the Griffin judges wrote, "a dazzling debut . . . colliding the language of revolution with the landscapes of the body."
Originally from Ibadan, Nigeria, and now based in Calgary, Oloruntoba writes poetry in the "small crevice" between managing healthcare projects, editing, and parenting two young children.
✨His highly anticipated new collection, 𝙐𝙣𝙧𝙖𝙫𝙚𝙡, arrives March 25 from @McClellandBooks. You can pre-order it now! buff.ly/4177pSK
Read "Sieve" and other poems by Tolu Oloruntoba on our website: buff.ly/4kfdvJm
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🖊✨ Call for Papers!
We are now accepting papers between 3,000-5,000 words for a forthcoming special issue, "Solidarity: Aesthetics, Politics, Pedagogies."
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2025
This issue will be guest edited by Smaro Kamboureli (University of Toronto).
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In the early 1990s, $12.2 billion that Nigeria made from oil sales during the Gulf War allegedly disappeared at the highest levels of government.
The alleged suspects: Ibrahim Babangida, the Head of State, and Abdulkadir Ahmed, the CBN governor.
Source: P.M. News
