Ayaz Pirani

November 2023

Ayaz’s books include Happy You Are Here, Kabir’s Jacket Has a Thousand Pockets and How Beautiful People Are. His work recently appeared in ARC Poetry Magazine, The Antigonish Review, Guest 16 and The Malahat Review. His books have been reviewed in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, ARC Poetry Magazine, Qwerty Magazine, The Dalhousie Review, The Ampersand Review, and HA&L Hamilton Arts and Letters.

An enormous, wondrous part of the Canadian imagination is foreign to me. By living briefly at the Stegner House, I would have my first experience of Saskatchewan. I will be inspired, no doubt, for a lifetime.