27/08/2025
Heartfelt congratulations to Ricepaper poetry editor Tāriq Malik, whose poetry book "Blood of Stone" was recognized with the Book Awards for BC Authors Contest Award 2025 for poetry
Pakistani-born Vancouver-based Desipoc author Tāriq Malik has worked across poetry, fiction, non-fiction and visual arts for the past four decades to distill immersive and original narratives. As a marginalized creator, he writes intensely in response to the world in flux around him and his place in its shadows. He claims to have come to these shores reluctantly, having first survived three wars, two migrations, and two decades of slavery in the Kuwaiti desert before landing here. He has authored a collection of short stories, Rainsongs of Kotli (TSAR Publications, 2004); a novel, Chanting Denied Shores (Bayeux Arts, 2010); and a poetry collection, Unmooring the Komagata Maru (UBC Press, 2019). His recent poetry publications by Caitlin Press include Exit Wounds (2022) and Blood of Stone (2024). His writing has appeared or will appear in Salzburg Poetry Review #43, The Puritan, The Polyglot Magazine, Rice Paper, TWUC’s Write Magazine, The Aleph Review, and Verbal Art (July 2019), among others. He has been the Writer-in-Residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House (July 2023). He is the current Writer-in-Residence at The Polyglot Magazine and the Canadian Editor of the online Haiku magazine Espacio Luna Alfanje.
https://caitlinpress.com/Books/B/Blood-of-Stone https://pic.x.com/wEiVKoj2bL
