Rahat Kurd

Book cover for Bad Land by Corinna Chong (Arsenal Pulp Press): Longlisted for the Giller Prize. A slow-burning story exploring the generational effects of repression and transgression, set against the raw, eerie landscape of the badlands. https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/B/Bad-Land

Book cover for River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation edited by Nuzhat Abbas (Trace Press): What are the histories, constraints, and possibilities of language in relation to bodies, origins, land, colonialism, gender, war, displacement, desire, and migration? Contributors include Khairani Barokka, Yasmine Haj, Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Nedra Rodrigo, Suneela Mubayi, Iryn Tushabe, Gopika Jadeja, Rahat Kurd, Geetha Sukumaran, Norah Alkharashi, and Lisa Ndejuru. https://tracepress.org/collections/books/products/river-in-an-ocean-essays-on-translation

Daily(ish) #SmallPress #books Bad Land by Corinna Chong (@arsenalpulp.bsky.social) & River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation, ed. Nuzhat Abbas (@tracepress.bsky.social & contribs @mailbykite.bsky.social @wordsweaver.bsky.social @rahat.bsky.social). See alt-text. #DSPBposts 💙📚 #BookSky

the fascist nakba against Palestinians has lasted through 3 teeth-grinding christmases + new years. its armed thugs killed children in Gaza TODAY. for its biggest funder + profiteer to authorize the killing of one of its own citizens + lie about it is to carry on being fascist. it is not shocking.

You can say no.

the abomination of mayonnaise violating those pomegranate seeds just gave me more insight into cultural chauvinism and why war endures than every political theory book I've read

asked my six year old niece what was wrong with phones and she said "people keep looking at them
and don't listen to you" then asked "so what would you do about it" and she said "feed the phones to crocodiles" so her platform has my full support

The merit that anti-DEI policies revealed

Donate to A cry for help from Gaza: Stand with Ayham and Mila, organized by Hanade Sharo-Aldmour Two children. No home. No income. A family in Gaza needs s… Hanade Sharo-Aldmour needs your support for A cry for help from Gaza: Stand with Ayham and Mila

On this second-to-last day of 2025, a vulgar Canada-backed series of mass crime continues into its third year with impunity.

I have mentally pushed past my exhaustion + rage to focus on what I can do today. Support this fundraiser for a family in Gaza. gofund.me/44320e432

YouTube video by 7TSANG 2046

2024 was pretty bad and 2025 managed to top that easily and so, I am not eager to welcome 2026, yet... www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rg1...

Invoking Wong Kar-Wai, instantly quelling all doomscrolling. Respect.

light a candle, eat a pomegranate, read in bed, repeat

amid vague mostly-misses on this app, a rare hit

ALL day

This sounds clearly like it would be the ONLY option… if this city weren't run by a mayor who seems to hate the ordinary functionality of cities and people who want Vancouver to be livable and have nice things

I have had to listen to a vexing number of "But I just use it to…" and "Well actually it's better than…" lately. It reminds me of the 90s, when people would nod, smile, & "you go girl" my rants against patriarchy and then go serenely off to another lavish 5-event wedding.

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

It’s always difficult to help people from Gaza in Egypt- but they are generally trapped there without the ability to work- Sharif is also has a serious back condition which means he can’t even get off books work generally. But he’s still trying to deal with the medical issues of his infant son

Good morning!

The Book of Z is reviewed by the human literary institution known as rob mclennan:
@periodicities.bsky.social

If you'd like to buy a signed copy please send me a note 💛 🖤
#WinterIsHere #Poetry

Z…at the lonely end of the rink 💛

I also signed copies of THE BOOK OF Z at The Paper Hound last month here in #Vancouver 💜

Progressive political coverage from Teen Vogue began to grab headlines a decade ago, in the Obama-era of progressive stupefaction + celebrity worship. Teen Vogue came as a good shock esp here in magazine-starved Canada. I hope its success will be carefully studied.

Hey friends, our next reading is 3 weeks away! It will feature Betsy Warland (reading H.D.), Justyna Krol (reading Adam Zagajewski), Cabil Martinez (reading Jim-Wong Chu), and Kyle McKillop (reading Bill Knott).

It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!

Palestine - 1 - Stories from the eve of the Nakba | Comma Press £11.99 (Paperback / Anthology) - Mazen Maarouf, Selma Dabbagh, Ahmad Jaber, Anwar Hamed, Mahmoud Shukair and others

Cover reveal day for Palestine -1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba by Comma Press! I have a story in this one. It launches November 13th. Pre-orders are open at the link below:

commapress.co.uk/books/palest...

Just going to leave the Minions Banana song here for the sake of youngest daughters who should not be hungry in siege state and leave off what I'm really thinking (inwardly screaming). Please share + scream at your elected officials. Sanctions now. Free 🍉

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Sparkling under steel toes - BC Booklook Poet Christina Shah merges industrial grit with lyrical insight in if: prey, then: huntress exploring work, history and the beauty in labour.

Christina Shah channels her experiences working in a male-dominated field into her new poetry collection, if: prey, then: huntress. Read her full interview with BC BookLook.

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Marguerite Pigeon reviews I Would Like To Say Thank You, by Joseph Marguerite Pigeon reviewsI Would Like To Say Thank You, by Joseph Dandurand (Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2025) $19.95 / 9780889714908 and November, November, by Isabella Wang (Madeira Park:

Check out Marguerite Pigeon’s reviews of November, November by Isabella Wang, and I Would Like to Say Thank You by Joseph Dandurand, now on The BC Review.

#BCPoetry #JosephDandurand #IsabellaWang

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Sorry for the late reply, Daniela, I haven't been on here in a while…and yes, of course!

as if the poet broke through the veneer of market and policy terminology to remake its words into lines of remembrance and connection.

Reading SCAR/CITY + then being in conversation about it with @danielaelza.bsky.social has given me - paradoxically! - the feeling of connection + livability Vancouver constantly tells me I can't have. Also, Daniela's poetics of wordplay has an unusually deep, searching quality, (cont'd)