BC Poetry 2018: "Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food" ed. Rachel Rose (Anvil Press)

"fried onions" by Pardis Pahlavanlu

sizzling onions dancing
in turmeric yellow
passing through the material barrier
and making their way to eternity.

who would have thought paradise was the smell in one’s hair?

Who?

Pardis Pahlvanlu is an exiled Iranian artist living on Coast Salish territories. Her work focues on loss, diaspora and the intersection of mental health. She aims to rediscover home in each piece she creates.

Rachel Rose's work has appeared in various journals including Poetry, The Malahat Review, and The Best American Poetry, as well as numerous anthologies. Her most recent poetry collection, Song & Spectacle (Harbour, 2012) won the Audre Lorde Award in the US and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award in Canada. She was the librettist for the opera When the Sun Comes Out, which grapples with fundamentalism and forbidden love. She is the winner of the Peterson Memorial Prize for Poetry and the Bronwen Wallace Award for Fiction, and the recipient of a 2014 Pushcart Prize. She is the poet Laureate of Vancouver for 2014-2017.


What?

Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food brings to the table some of Canada’s best contemporary writers, celebrating all that is unique about Vancouver’s literary and culinary scene. Punctuated by beautiful local food photographs, interviews with and recipes from some of our top local chefs, each of these short pieces will shock, comfort, praise, entice, or invite reconciliation, all while illuminating our living history through the lens of food. Sustenance is also a community response to the needs of new arrivals or low-income families in our city. The contributors have donated their honoraria to the BC Farmers Market Nutrition Coupon Program. A portion of sales from every book will go towards providing a refugee or low-income family with fresh, locally grown produce, and at the same time will support B.C. farmers, fishers, and gardeners.


When?

Arrived November 2017.


Where?

Purchase from the Anvil Press website or at your local bookstore. $25.


How?

Illuminating our living history through the lens of food.

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