Rahat Kurd
@rahat.bsky.social
reader & writer / THE BOOK OF Z: https://talonbooks.com/books/the-book-of-z / ahl-e-zubaan / she/they / free palestine
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Rahat Kurd
@rahat.bsky.social
· Sep 5
The Book of Z is a persona poem, written in the imagined voice of a contemporary Zulaykha.
I also signed copies of THE BOOK OF Z at The Paper Hound last month here in #Vancouver 💜
Be sure to look up these incredible titles at your local #bookstore:
📚The Book of Z by @rahat.bsky.social
📚th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett
📚No Depression in Heaven by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
📚Stigmata by @scottjackshaw.bsky.social
📚tours, variously by @drewmcew.bsky.social
📚The Book of Z by @rahat.bsky.social
📚th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett
📚No Depression in Heaven by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
📚Stigmata by @scottjackshaw.bsky.social
📚tours, variously by @drewmcew.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I also signed copies of THE BOOK OF Z at The Paper Hound last month here in #Vancouver 💜
Progressive political coverage from Teen Vogue began to grab headlines a decade ago, in the Obama-era of progressive stupefaction + celebrity worship. Teen Vogue came as a good shock esp here in magazine-starved Canada. I hope its success will be carefully studied.
We now know that the Teen Vogue fold is more than an absorption & clearly a full shift from the pub’s DNA. Laying off the entire politics team a day before the NYC election is heinous + a knife in the back to a brand that has solidified its importance for youth. Devastating.
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Progressive political coverage from Teen Vogue began to grab headlines a decade ago, in the Obama-era of progressive stupefaction + celebrity worship. Teen Vogue came as a good shock esp here in magazine-starved Canada. I hope its success will be carefully studied.
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Hey friends, our next reading is 3 weeks away! It will feature Betsy Warland (reading H.D.), Justyna Krol (reading Adam Zagajewski), Cabil Martinez (reading Jim-Wong Chu), and Kyle McKillop (reading Bill Knott).
It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!
It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Hey friends, our next reading is 3 weeks away! It will feature Betsy Warland (reading H.D.), Justyna Krol (reading Adam Zagajewski), Cabil Martinez (reading Jim-Wong Chu), and Kyle McKillop (reading Bill Knott).
It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!
It all happens November 16th, 3pm at Outisiders and Others. Save the date!
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Cover reveal day for Palestine -1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba by Comma Press! I have a story in this one. It launches November 13th. Pre-orders are open at the link below:
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
Palestine - 1 - Stories from the eve of the Nakba | Comma Press
£11.99 (Paperback / Anthology) - Mazen Maarouf, Selma Dabbagh, Ahmad Jaber, Anwar Hamed, Mahmoud Shukair and others
commapress.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Cover reveal day for Palestine -1: Stories from the Eve of the Nakba by Comma Press! I have a story in this one. It launches November 13th. Pre-orders are open at the link below:
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
commapress.co.uk/books/palest...
Just going to leave the Minions Banana song here for the sake of youngest daughters who should not be hungry in siege state and leave off what I'm really thinking (inwardly screaming). Please share + scream at your elected officials. Sanctions now. Free 🍉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFuk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFuk...
October 29, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Just going to leave the Minions Banana song here for the sake of youngest daughters who should not be hungry in siege state and leave off what I'm really thinking (inwardly screaming). Please share + scream at your elected officials. Sanctions now. Free 🍉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFuk...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFuk...
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Christina Shah channels her experiences working in a male-dominated field into her new poetry collection, if: prey, then: huntress. Read her full interview with BC BookLook.
bcbooklook.com/sparkling-un...
bcbooklook.com/sparkling-un...
Sparkling under steel toes - BC Booklook
Poet Christina Shah merges industrial grit with lyrical insight in if: prey, then: huntress exploring work, history and the beauty in labour.
bcbooklook.com
October 26, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Christina Shah channels her experiences working in a male-dominated field into her new poetry collection, if: prey, then: huntress. Read her full interview with BC BookLook.
bcbooklook.com/sparkling-un...
bcbooklook.com/sparkling-un...
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Check out Marguerite Pigeon’s reviews of November, November by Isabella Wang, and I Would Like to Say Thank You by Joseph Dandurand, now on The BC Review.
#BCPoetry #JosephDandurand #IsabellaWang
thebcreview.ca/2025/10/26/2...
#BCPoetry #JosephDandurand #IsabellaWang
thebcreview.ca/2025/10/26/2...
Marguerite Pigeon reviews I Would Like To Say Thank You, by Joseph
Marguerite Pigeon reviewsI Would Like To Say Thank You, by Joseph Dandurand (Madeira Park: Harbour Publishing, 2025) $19.95 / 9780889714908 and November, November, by Isabella Wang (Madeira Park:
thebcreview.ca
October 26, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Check out Marguerite Pigeon’s reviews of November, November by Isabella Wang, and I Would Like to Say Thank You by Joseph Dandurand, now on The BC Review.
#BCPoetry #JosephDandurand #IsabellaWang
thebcreview.ca/2025/10/26/2...
#BCPoetry #JosephDandurand #IsabellaWang
thebcreview.ca/2025/10/26/2...
Reading SCAR/CITY + then being in conversation about it with @danielaelza.bsky.social has given me - paradoxically! - the feeling of connection + livability Vancouver constantly tells me I can't have. Also, Daniela's poetics of wordplay has an unusually deep, searching quality, (cont'd)
September 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Reading SCAR/CITY + then being in conversation about it with @danielaelza.bsky.social has given me - paradoxically! - the feeling of connection + livability Vancouver constantly tells me I can't have. Also, Daniela's poetics of wordplay has an unusually deep, searching quality, (cont'd)
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The new #poetry collection The Book of Z by @rahat.bsky.social is here! Kurd writes from the imagined voice of Zulaykha, “the wife of Aziz”/“wife of Potiphar" as she reflects on what consolations human desire and divine longing might offer our shared present tense. 💙📚
talonbooks.com/books/the-bo...
talonbooks.com/books/the-bo...
September 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The new #poetry collection The Book of Z by @rahat.bsky.social is here! Kurd writes from the imagined voice of Zulaykha, “the wife of Aziz”/“wife of Potiphar" as she reflects on what consolations human desire and divine longing might offer our shared present tense. 💙📚
talonbooks.com/books/the-bo...
talonbooks.com/books/the-bo...
Yeah, I refuse to stop sharing them and I refuse to be overwhelmed alone. I live in a state that ships arms to the terrorists who enforced this state of siege and famine onto Palestinian families. I will not let them forget that what they are doing is illegal, immoral, and does not represent me. 🍉✊
If you're overwhelmed by the amount of Gaza fundraisers flooding your TL just imagine how overwhelmed they are getting the 25th evacuation order while being starved to death and terrorized with bombs paid by our tax money. Choose 3 fundraisers and give $5 to each...even that can save lives. 🙏🏼
September 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Yeah, I refuse to stop sharing them and I refuse to be overwhelmed alone. I live in a state that ships arms to the terrorists who enforced this state of siege and famine onto Palestinian families. I will not let them forget that what they are doing is illegal, immoral, and does not represent me. 🍉✊
Please keep sharing and keep demanding systemic change for Palestinian freedom from your elected officials.
September 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Please keep sharing and keep demanding systemic change for Palestinian freedom from your elected officials.
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Help us celebrate the release of
📚 The Book of Z by @rahat.bsky.social
📚 th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett
📚 No Depression in Heaven by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
📚 Stigmata by @scottjackshaw.bsky.social and
📚 tours, variously by @drewmcew.bsky.social!
See you there! 💙📚
📚 The Book of Z by @rahat.bsky.social
📚 th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett
📚 No Depression in Heaven by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
📚 Stigmata by @scottjackshaw.bsky.social and
📚 tours, variously by @drewmcew.bsky.social!
See you there! 💙📚
September 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Help us celebrate the release of
📚 The Book of Z by @rahat.bsky.social
📚 th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett
📚 No Depression in Heaven by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
📚 Stigmata by @scottjackshaw.bsky.social and
📚 tours, variously by @drewmcew.bsky.social!
See you there! 💙📚
📚 The Book of Z by @rahat.bsky.social
📚 th book uv lost passwords 1 by bill bissett
📚 No Depression in Heaven by @ryanfitzpublic.bsky.social
📚 Stigmata by @scottjackshaw.bsky.social and
📚 tours, variously by @drewmcew.bsky.social!
See you there! 💙📚
Vancouver folks, you're invited 🙂 💜
You're invited to the Talonbooks Fall 2025 Launch on October 24! Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall to celebrate the release of five fantastic poetry collections. Attendance is free!
Get all the details here: talonbooks.com/events/talon...
Get all the details here: talonbooks.com/events/talon...
September 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Vancouver folks, you're invited 🙂 💜
Everyone in the world who has not lost their humanity is now talking with pleasure and excitement about this image, which makes it - as stain, in shadow - even more hopeful and excellent
Found an even better image of it on face thing:
September 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Everyone in the world who has not lost their humanity is now talking with pleasure and excitement about this image, which makes it - as stain, in shadow - even more hopeful and excellent
What about seizing all Lockheed Martin assets to fund affordable housing in perpetuity for everyone right now?
No fighter jets for you!
No fighter jets for you!
🇨🇦, cancel the F-35 "deal."
"F-35 flying into more delays and cost increases, U.S. government report says."
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...
"F-35 flying into more delays and cost increases, U.S. government report says."
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...
MSN
www.msn.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
What about seizing all Lockheed Martin assets to fund affordable housing in perpetuity for everyone right now?
No fighter jets for you!
No fighter jets for you!
Really looking forward to this one! I'll be reading from THE BOOK OF Z 💜
On Sept 17, head to the Britannia Branch of the Vancouver Public Library to enjoy poetry from @rahat.bsky.social, Evelyn Lau, and @danielaelza.bsky.social! The event begins at 6. Don't miss it!
September 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Really looking forward to this one! I'll be reading from THE BOOK OF Z 💜
Here's a pink heart inscribed with the word "Dosti" = "Friendship" in Urdu script.
Be a friend for Gaza, where Zena needs milk and food.
Keep sharing and keep protesting.
#CeasefireNOW #DisarmIsFake #StopArmingIsFake #FeedGazaNOW
Be a friend for Gaza, where Zena needs milk and food.
Keep sharing and keep protesting.
#CeasefireNOW #DisarmIsFake #StopArmingIsFake #FeedGazaNOW
September 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Here's a pink heart inscribed with the word "Dosti" = "Friendship" in Urdu script.
Be a friend for Gaza, where Zena needs milk and food.
Keep sharing and keep protesting.
#CeasefireNOW #DisarmIsFake #StopArmingIsFake #FeedGazaNOW
Be a friend for Gaza, where Zena needs milk and food.
Keep sharing and keep protesting.
#CeasefireNOW #DisarmIsFake #StopArmingIsFake #FeedGazaNOW
The Book of Z is a persona poem, written in the imagined voice of a contemporary Zulaykha.
September 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The Book of Z is a persona poem, written in the imagined voice of a contemporary Zulaykha.
As one of the co-contributors to the anthology RIVER IN AN OCEAN: ESSAYS ON TRANSLATION (trace press, 2023) I've had the pleasure of reading Okka's work & meeting her online. Her amazing essay in RIVER similarly constitutes an expression of #care for the translator, as here, for the #reader 💜
This is my Content Warning that begins ANNAH, INFINITE. It was v impt for me to include encouragement for ppl to take breaks, take care of themselves, and to know that I black out words and that this is an escape story.
If you included a Content Warning in yr book, pls let me know/share 🤍 #CripLit
If you included a Content Warning in yr book, pls let me know/share 🤍 #CripLit
![CONTENT WARNING
This is an escape story. There are vast fields of intertwined kinds
of violence to pass through, and I try my utmost to reference
them without sinking you, to allude to them without being ex-
plicit where possible. I have tried to keep you here with gen-
tleness, without gratuitousness, undue explicitness. Though of
course my attempts may have differing outcomes for each of us,
my intention is for this book to be about the peace on the other
side, rarely thought of by many, for Annah, for many of us. We
can return and return to that peace for the stretch you are here
with me.
Many forms of violence are present in the possibilities for
who Annah la Javanaise depicts. But there are also many possibili-
ties to escape every single one of them. Possibilities that exist, that
are always already here. I use this brushstroke over words, where
I feel it may be needed for us: for instance, [assault]. It is impossi-
ble, of course, to gauge every reader’s zone of safety, but I have
tried my best.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gwjeoe5r3of6nruaiwielqrc/bafkreig2wbnjfkku6m2lxla4uksbd6lstgwrwvtzl433mz6l5b7c5nvkce@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Not saying guerilla tactics *require* black tie. But ahhh, how nice it is to see them align. So very nice. 🍉 ✊
September 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Not saying guerilla tactics *require* black tie. But ahhh, how nice it is to see them align. So very nice. 🍉 ✊
This is Dina and her children in Gaza. Please keep sharing, donate if you can, and tell your elected officials their inaction is complicity & complicity is unacceptable
gofund.me/972ab97fd
gofund.me/972ab97fd
Donate to Help Dina and her children buy food, clothes, and milk, organized by Arwa Shaheen
I am Dina from Gaza, married with four children. Over the course o… Arwa Shaheen needs your support for Help Dina and her children buy food, clothes, and milk
gofund.me
September 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This is Dina and her children in Gaza. Please keep sharing, donate if you can, and tell your elected officials their inaction is complicity & complicity is unacceptable
gofund.me/972ab97fd
gofund.me/972ab97fd
I suggest my local hot dog stand in front of English Bay Beach in Vancouver, as the location for this. The vibe at sunset is unbeatable. And I think the guy who runs it makes his own garlic sauce.
i want a tv series called “werner herzog eats a hot dog” in which werner herzog just eats a hot dog and talks about life for an hour
September 2, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I suggest my local hot dog stand in front of English Bay Beach in Vancouver, as the location for this. The vibe at sunset is unbeatable. And I think the guy who runs it makes his own garlic sauce.
Ottawa is apparently run by people who hate kids and/or who prefer to fund police on the backs of kids?
A climate justice strategy would pay people to take transit as much as possible, and responsible officials worthy of their damn pay checks would have started to do this in 2010.
A climate justice strategy would pay people to take transit as much as possible, and responsible officials worthy of their damn pay checks would have started to do this in 2010.
But our mayor has decided to give the police gobs of money
End of the road for OC Transpo youth passes, teens now pay $135 a month for transit pass
September 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Ottawa is apparently run by people who hate kids and/or who prefer to fund police on the backs of kids?
A climate justice strategy would pay people to take transit as much as possible, and responsible officials worthy of their damn pay checks would have started to do this in 2010.
A climate justice strategy would pay people to take transit as much as possible, and responsible officials worthy of their damn pay checks would have started to do this in 2010.
Jeremy Tiang really hits the nail on the head here (as would be expected).
Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside
Translation is caught between two forms of capitalist exploitation: using a per-word freelance structure to provide a bare minimum fee, and playing on its artistic nature to compel free ancillary labor alongside
September 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM