Renée Sarojini Saklikar returns to her poetic quest in this next installment of her series, and Dale Tracy introduces us to her new collection of poetry. Each poet uses language to disrupt the world as we see it and re-envisions one filled with connections to place, family, and society at large.
Location: Poetry Tent, UBC Robson Square
Type: Poetry, Q&A
Moderator: James Gifford
Readers: Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Bramah’s Quest (Harbour Publishing) | Dale Tracy, Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press)
About The Moderator
James Gifford is an editor, teacher, Director of Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, and author of the Mythopoeic Award winning book A Modernist Fantasy. He has taught in six countries on two continents and lives in the Fraser Valley. His recent writing is in SAD Mag, Santa Fe Literary Review, and North Dakota Quarterly, and his most recent book is Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence. James is also an active musician.
About The Readers
Renée Sarojini Saklikar is the author of five books, including the award-winning Children of Air India and Listening to the Bees. Her poetry, essays and short fiction have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies, including Exile Editions, Chatelaine, The Capilano Review, and Pulp Literature. Bramah’s Quest is the latest volume of her epic fantasy in verse, THOT J BAP, The Heart of This Journey Bears All Patterns. She was poet laureate for the City of Surrey 2015–2018 and volunteers for Event magazine, Meet the Presses collective, Surrey International Writers Conference and Poetry in Canada . Renée Sarojini teaches creative writing and editing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and hosts Lunch Poems at SFU. Find out more https://thecanadaproject.wordpress.com/
Dale Tracy is the author of Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press, 2022), her first full-length poetry collection. She also wrote the chapbooks Lines That Open (Surrey Art Gallery, 2023), The Mystery of Ornament (above/ground press, 2020), and Celebration Machine (Proper Tales Press, 2018), and the academic monograph With the Witnesses: Poetry, Compassion, and Claimed Experience (McGill-Queen’s, 2017). She is a faculty member in the English Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
