“Shadow Price” by Farah Ghafoor
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Shadow Price” by Farah Ghafoor, from Shadow Price (House of Anansi Press, 2025), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. Due to its formatting, this poem is only available as an image.
Shadow Price
By Farah Ghafoor
Copyright ยฉ Farah Ghafoor
From Shadow Price (House of Anansi Press 2025), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award.
Farah Ghafoor is the author of Shadow Price (House of Anansi, 2025). Finalist for the Governor Generalโs Award for Poetry and Trillium Award for Poetry, longlisted for the Toronto Book Awards, and named a CBC Best Book of the Year, selections of Shadow Price won the E.J. Pratt Medal and Prize and were recognized by the CBC Poetry Prize. Her work appears anthologies, post-secondary course curriculums, art exhibitions like Who’s Afraid of Labour Justice? and Structural Integrity, as well as in magazines such as The Walrus, The Offing, Brick Magazine, and The Fiddlehead. She lives in Tkaranto (Toronto).
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