Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “sodade (ix)” By Salimah Valiani.

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sodade (ix)

By Salimah Valiani

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Copyright © Salimah Valiani

Salimah Valiani is a poet, activist and researcher. 29 leads to love, her fifth poetry collection, won the 2022 International Book Award for Contemporary Poetry. Her previous poetry collections are breathing for breadth (TSAR 2005); Letter Out: Letter In (Inanna 2009); land of the sky (Inanna 2016); Cradles (Daraja 2017). Love Pandemic, Valiani’s audiobook was released by Daraja Press in 2022. Valiani’s new collection, IGoli EGoli, about the city of Johannesburg, was launched by Botsotso in July 2024.

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