a place called No Homeland

• The best Canadian poetry of 2017
• 14 Canadian poets to watch in 2018

This extraordinary poetry collection is a vivid, beautifully wrought journey to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monstrous women roam and where the distinctions between body, land and language are lost. In these fierce yet tender narrative poems, Kai Cheng Thom draws equally from memory and mythology to create new maps of gender, race, sexuality and violence.

• How Kai Cheng Thom finds community through her poetry

In the world ofa place called No Homeland, the bodies of the marginalizedqueer and transgender communities, survivors of abuse and assault and children of diasporaare celebrated, survival songs are sung and the ancestors offer you forgiveness for not remembering their names. Descended from the traditions of oral storytelling, spoken word and queer punk poetry, Kai Cheng Thom's debut collection is evocative and unforgettable. (From Arsenal Pulp Press)

• Kai Cheng Thom is one of CBC Books' writers to watch in 2017
• Kai Cheng Thom: 'Faith and science, to me, are one and the same when it comes to writing'

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