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About The Author

Basma Kavanagh

Basma Kavanagh is a poet, visual artist, and letterpress printer who lives and works in Nova Scotia, in Mi’kma’ki. She produces artist’s books under the imprint Rabbit Square Books. She has published two collections of poetry, Distillo (Gaspereau, 2012), and Niche (Frontenac, 2015), which won the 2016 Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, and was a finalist for the 2019 NS Masterworks Arts Award. The book-length poem, Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots (Frontenac, 2018), was shortlisted for the 2019 J.M. Abraham Poetry award and won the Book Publishers Association of Alberta’s Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry Book of the Year. Www.basmakavanagh.ca

Books by Basma Kavanagh