Canadian Poets Series #13 : Farah Ghafoor

Based in Tkaranto (Toronto), Farah Ghafoor is the author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025) [see my review here]. A finalist for the Toronto Book Awards, selections of Shadow Price won the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry, and were finalists for the CBC Poetry Prize and the Far Horizons Award. Shadow Price has also just been shortlisted for the 2025 Governor General's Award for Poetry. Her work appears in magazines such as The WalrusThe OffingBrick Magazine, and The Fiddlehead, and art exhibitions like Who's Afraid of Labour Justice? and FACE/WASTE, as well as anthologies and post-secondary course curriculums. Recent interviews can be found on/in Q with Tom PowerThe Ex-Puritan, Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-op Radio, as part of the 12 or 20 questions series, and elsewhere. She recently curated "Structural Integrity" for Steelcase Art Projects, an outdoor poetry exhibition that explores both the material and conceptual structures of society, and writes about building a creative life on her substack, Let Me Get Back to You.

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