Port of Being

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Watermark

Publication Year:
2018

ISBN-13: 9781988784168

<p><b>Shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Award<br />Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award<br />Finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize<br />Longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award<br />Winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry</b></p>

<p>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.</p>

<p>"Ramji has created an insightful, thoughtful, engaging and inspiring guide to being in the digital age."<b>—<i>Hamilton Review of Books</i></b></p>

<p>"These poems convey a tense, compelling vigilance.”<b>—<i>Toronto Star</i></b></p>

<p>"In equal measures, this book is bioluminescent, galactic, humane. Daring and intimate, it holds worlds.”<b>—Dani Couture, author of <i>Listen Before Transmit</i></b></p>