trace: translating [x] celebrates the launch of

tamil terrains

poems. translations. reflections

Join editors Nedra Rodrigo & Geetha Sukumaran + some of the contributors:

Abi Jeyaratnam, Subhanya Sivajothy, Gobiga Nada, Yalini Jothilingam & Regini David

Friday, November 7th |  7 - 9 pm 

Friends House | 60 Lowther Avenue, Toronto  

* While admission to this event is free, we encourage you to support the labour that went into this beautiful project by selecting Admission + Book ($20). Your copy of Tamil Terrains with a special bookmark will be available for you at the event 

Tamil Terrains emerged from "root, branch, driftwood," the 2022-2023  trace: translating [x]  Tamil literary translation workshops, organized by trace press and led by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran, which brought together emerging Tamil poets and translators from Canada, India, Malaysia and Singapore.

Moving from poetic engagements with Indigenous lands and voices in Canada to classical and contemporary landscapes and experiences in Ilankai, India, Malaysia and Singapore, the book asks the question: What  happens when a two-thousand-year-old language, rooted in a classical poetics of land, is moved, along with its peoples, through colonial and postcolonial upheavals, war and forced or voluntary migrations?