LIVRE DES AILES
A French novel | un roman par Tawhida Tanya Evanson
Marchand de feuilles 2023
ISBN 9782925059301
276 pages
(English text follows)
Livre des ailes suit une femme dans un voyage, du Canada aux Caraïbes, puis à France et au Maroc. À travers un récit captivant de transformation, profondément enraciné dans l’expérience sensorielle, Livre des ailes propose la liberté alors qu’une relation avec un amant et partenaire de voyage s’étiole et que la seule voie possible devient celle du renouveau. Lire les critiques ici :
Livre des ailes follows a woman on a journey from Canada to the Caribbean, then on to France and Morocco. Through a captivating tale of transformation, deeply rooted in sensory experience, Livre des ailes proposes freedom as a relationship with a lover and traveling partner withers and the only possible path becomes one of renewal.
BOOK OF WINGS
a novel by Tawhida Tanya Evanson
Véhicule Press 2021
ISBN 978-1-55065-564-3
180 Pages
Not only is Book of Wings a stunning example of what is possible when a poet writes a novel, it is a testament to what is possible when we move through the world with an open, broken heart. Maya, the protagonist of this tale, learns to love at a distance and learns how to love who she becomes in the process. On her journey, strangers become guides, memories become markers, and every step she takes inevitably leads her to the doorstep of dervishhood.
–Sheniz Janmohamed, Quill & Quire
- 2022 CAM/Blue Metropolis New Contribution Literary Prize
- 2022 CBC Canada Reads Longlist
- 2021 Books of the Year, Quill & Quire
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Also available from ECW Press as an AUDIOBOOK
NOUVEAU GRIOT
poetry by Tanya Evanson
Frontenac House 2018
ISBN 978-1-927823-84-2
75 Pages
Nouveau Griot is the result of 20 years on stage and in studio. It is the text from four spoken word audio recordings made between 2004-2016: Invisible World, The Memorists, Language for Gods and ZENSHIP. This work is in the continuum of the griot, which is a french African word meaning “poet, singer and traveling musician to whom supernatural powers are often attributed.” Read the reviews here:
BOTHISM
poetry by Tanya Evanson
Ekstasis Editions 2017
ISBN 978-1-77171-219-4
52 Pages
Bothism is an experimental Sufi text. It is both sorrow and joy, day and night, content and form, dot and circle, the threshold between worlds. It moves from unity to multiplicity and back again exploring that which can be split and reunited: a cell, a relationship, society, faith, time, words on the page. It posits that if one thing is true, then the opposite must also true, and when asked to choose, the poet's answer is always both. Read the reviews here:
ARTIST BOOKS
LOVE LETTER TO ANATOLIA
Tanya Evanson (Mother Tongue Media 2012)
6-pages ISBN: 0968814130
THE GOLDEN SECTION
Tanya Evanson (Mother Tongue Media 2001)
26-pages ISBN: 0968814123
CUT OF BUDDHA / THE VANCOUVER ELOQUENCE
Tanya Evanson (Mother Tongue Media 2000)
12-pages ISBN: 0968814115
THROWING SKIN - SOUTH AMERICA POEMS 1997-98
Tanya Evanson (Mother Tongue Media 1999)
66-pages ISBN: 0968814107
WORD CLASS ANIMAL
Tanya Evanson (Mother Tongue Media 1997)
20-pages
BLOOD IN, BLOOD OUT - A UNIVERSAL PREPARATION
Tanya Evanson (Mother Tongue Media 1996)
38-pages
FULL PUBLICATION LIST
| 2025 |
Editor |
Love Loves Our Loving (League of Canadian Poets Canada) poetry anthology |
| 2025 |
Poetry |
Poem in your Pocket (League of Canadian Poets Canada) |
| 2025 |
Interview |
Sufism in Canada (Xavier & Mercier-Dalphond ed. University of Toronto) |
| 2024 |
Interview |
Resistant Practices in Communities of Sound (Fong & Mash ed. McGill-Queen) |
| 2023 |
Interview |
Dervishes of the North (Xavier, University of Toronto) |
| 2023 |
Poetry |
Capilano Review Issue 4.1 (Canada) |
| 2023 |
French Fiction/Author |
Livre des ailes (Marchand de feuilles, Canada) French novel |
| 2023 |
Editor |
Three Hundred Poems by Komi Olafimihan (Write Bloody North, Canada) poetry |
| 2021 |
Fiction/Author |
Book of Wings (Véhicule Press, Canada) novel |
| 2020 |
Fiction |
Changing the Face of Canadian Literature (Guernica Editions, Canada) |
| 2020 |
Poetry |
Fiddlehead 75th Anniversary Issue No. 283 (Canada) |
| 2018 |
Poetry/Author |
Nouveau Griot (Frontenac House, Canada) |
| 2017 |
Poetry/Author |
Bothism (Ekstasis Editions, Canada) |
| 2017 |
Short Fiction |
WSQ: At Sea Volume 45 No. 1–2 (Feminist Press, US) |
| 2017 |
Poetry |
Making Room - 40 Years of Room Magazine (Caitlin Press, Canada) |
| 2017 |
Poetry |
Resist Much / Obey Little (Dispatches Editions, US) |
| 2016 |
Poetry |
Arc Poetry Magazine 81 - Fall (Canada) |
| 2016 |
Poetry |
Oratorealis - Experimental Poetics & Spoken Word (Canada) |
| 2015 |
Guest Editor |
Poetry Magazine - Fall Edition (Canada) |
| 2015 |
Poetry |
Where the Nights Are Twice as Long (Goose Lane, Canada) |
| 2015 |
Review |
Canadian Review of Literature in Performance (online, Canada) |
| 2014 |
Review |
Canadian Review of Literature in Performance (online, Canada) |
| 2014 |
Poetry |
Womanspeak: A Journal of Art & Writing by Caribbean Women (Barbados) |
| 2013 |
Poetry |
The Great Black North: Contemporary African Can. Poetry (Frontenac, Canada) |
| 2012 |
Poetry/Author |
Love Letter to Anatolia (Mother Tongue Media, Canada) chapbook |
| 2011 |
Review |
Canadian Review of Literature in Performance (online, Canada) |
| 2011 |
Poetry |
Badilisha Poetry X-Change (online, South Africa) |
| 2009 |
Review |
Eyewear (online, UK) |
| 2008 |
Poetry |
Kola - A Black Literary Magazine Vol 20 Number 1 (Black Writers Guild, Canada) |
| 2007 |
Poetry |
Arabesque Review - Contemporary Women's Literature Vol 3 Issue 2 (Algeria) |
| 2002 |
Poetry |
Bluesprint - Black BC Literature and Orature (Arsenal Pulp, Canada) |
| 2002 |
Poetry |
All Wound Up - Alternative Writing from BC (Ripple Effect, Canada) |
| 2001 |
Poetry/Author |
The Golden Section (Mother Tongue Media, Canada) chapbook |
| 2001 |
Poetry |
Rain City Review Vol1 Issue 1 (BC Canada) |
| 2001 |
Poetry |
A Room of One's Own December Edition (Growing Room, Canada) |
| 2000 |
Poetry/Author |
Cut of Buddha/The Vancouver Eloquence (Mother Tongue Media, Canada) chapbook |
| 1999 |
Poetry/Author |
Throwing Skin (Mother Tongue Media, Canada) chapbook |
| 1997 |
Poetry |
Kola - A Black Literary Magazine Vol. 9 No 2 (Black Writer's Guild, Canada) |
| 1997 |
Poetry/Author |
Word Class Animal (Mother Tongue Media, Canada) chapbook |
| 1997 |
Poetry |
La Vache Enragée Anthologie 1996-97 (Revue Stop Canada) |
| 1996 |
Poetry/Author |
Blood In, Blood Out (Mother Tongue Media, Canada) chapbook |
| 1996 |
Poetry |
Index Magazine June 1996 (QC Canada) |
| 1995 |
Poetry |
Vallum Magazine No.5 May/June 1995 (NB Canada) |
| 1995 |
Poetry |
HOSTBOX Vol.IV No.2 Spring 1995 (ON Canada) |