A Talonbooks Reading

Schedule

Thu Nov 13 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Flying Books | Toronto, ON

Enjoy an evening of poetry with ryan fitzpatrick, A Jamali Rad, and Hajer Mirwali!
About this Event

Celebrate three outstanding works of poetry from Talonbooks authors! Whether tackling latter-day anxieties through country music, tracing the history of the number zero in an experimental hybrid work, or examining the overlapping circles of shame and pleasure, these collections are sure to inspire thought, awe, and delight.

Hot off the press, by dwells on whether it’s best to look backward to a seemingly better past, longing for a way to make things great again, or to stare into the abyss of the future, gambling that entry into paradise will provide release. No Depression in Heaven pulls on its boots, tilts its hat, and brushes the dust off its Nudie suit before tipping language out of key, asking how we respond to bad times and what it means to hold onto something toxic because of the comforts it affords.

by follows Zero, our protagonist, who stumbles upon a mysterious manuscript that sends them journeying across centuries, continents, and concepts. They travel throughout the Muslim world, from Sumeria to India to Baghdad. They learn about Europe as other and outside. They’re guided by the cryptic mirror the manuscript provides as it traces a history of the number zero.

The debut collection by sifts through the grains of Muslim daughterhood to reveal two metaphorical circles inextricably overlapping: shame and pleasure. Revolutions asks how young Arab women – who live in homes and communities where actions are surveilled and categorized as 3aib or not 3aib, shameful or acceptable – make and unmake their identities.

A Talonbooks Reading

Flying Books College Street

Toronto, ON

November 13, 2025

Doors are at 6:30 p.m. EST.

Where is it happening?

Flying Books, 784 College Street, Toronto, Canada
Tickets

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