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Shadow Price: Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.99
ISBN13: 9781487012922
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: Apr 1 2025
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.70 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Shortlisted, 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry
Shortlisted, 2026 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Longlisted, 2025 Toronto Book Awards
Shortlisted, 2026 League of Canadian Poets' Raymond Souster Award
A CBC Best Book of 2025
Borrowing its title from a finance term--the estimated price of a good or service for which no market price exists--Shadow Price is a stunning debut that examines the idea of value in a world that burns under our capitalist lens.
What gives life value? How do we serve existing societal structures that determine its cost? Employing both surreal and documentary imagery, Farah Ghafoor's arresting collection articulates how narrative is used to revise the past and manipulate the future, ultimately forming our present-day climate crisis. Interrogating personal complicity, generational implications, and the shock of our collective disregard for a world that sustains every living thing, Shadow Price captures the complexities of living and writing as a young poet born in the year that climate change denial first appeared in print. Mourning the loss of Earth's biodiversity, from insects to mammoths to trees, these introspective poems invite us to consider the risks and rewards of loving what may vanish in our lifetime.
Shadow Price charges readers to contemplate their power and purpose in the world today, recognizing that there is hope even in the belly of the beast.
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