OUT on September 16, 2024
“This is a book about love, joy, and intimacy”
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Heliotropia by Manahil Bandukwala $23.95 CAD
8.5 X 5.75 Inches | 112 Pages | Publication Date: September 16, 2024
About Heliotropia
“Where fear collides with the little shield of love.”
Manahil Bandukwala’s second collection of poems is a meditation on love during times of social and political upheaval. As a sunflower’s growth reaches toward the sun, so, she suggests, is a lover’s growth compelled by the gravitational pull and soul-light of their beloved. Many of these poems are in conversation with other poets and artists, creating a lineage of call and response. Against a backdrop of terrestrial crisis, come, spend your precious minutes in love’s Heliotropia, where we are magnetized by the unfathomable dark matter of another person, and know ourselves as celestial bodies flowering in spacetime, together.
Praise for Heliotropia:
“Intergalactic yet deeply earthly, intertextual yet wonderfully original…”
– Mikko Harvey, author of Let the World Have You
About the Author
Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist based in Mississauga and Ottawa, Ontario. She is the author of MONUMENT (Brick Books, 2022), which was shortlisted for the 2023 Gerald Lampert Award, and was selected as a Writer’s Trust of Canada Rising Star in 2023. See her work at manahilbandukwala.com.