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Souvankham Thammavongsa

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Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in Thailand and grew up in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in Acta Victoriana, The Fiddlehead, Fireweed, Grain, The Malahat Review, Other Voices, Prairie Fire, Rice Paper Magazine, as well as on CBC Radio. She is part of the editorial collective for big boots, a zine for and by women of colour. Small Arguments (Pedlar Press, 2003) is a collection of thirty tiny poems originally produced as chap books. Residual follows Souvankham Thamavongsa's award-winning debut, Small Arguments. Thamavongsa's poems explore their subjects in startlingly meticulous ways: light, turtles, and ostriches are all described in finely chosen lines - originally composed on graph paper - that float across the page. Each object, each thing, described with a forensic precision. Hers is a poetry that approaches the world with the focus of an autopsy. There is both care and indifference here that few other poets have the ability to sense. The result is a quiet, seemingly unassuming, suite of haunted poems.

Bibliography
Small Arguments (Pedlar Press, 2003)
Residual (Green Boat House, 2006)

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Works in the Archive

Souvankham Thammavongsa - Discussion

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Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in Thailand and grew up in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in Acta Victoriana, The Fiddlehead, Fireweed, Grain, The Malahat Review, Other Voices, Prairie Fire, Rice Paper Magazine, as well as on CBC Radio. She is part of the editorial collective for big boots, a zine for and by women of colour. Small Arguments (Pedlar Press, 2003) is a collection of thirty tiny poems originally produced as chap books.

Submitted by Artmob Guest on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 21:03.

Souvankham Thammavongsa - Q & A

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Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in Thailand and grew up in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in Acta Victoriana, The Fiddlehead, Fireweed, Grain, The Malahat Review, Other Voices, Prairie Fire, Rice Paper Magazine, as well as on CBC Radio. She is part of the editorial collective for big boots, a zine for and by women of colour. Small Arguments (Pedlar Press, 2003) is a collection of thirty tiny poems originally produced as chap books.

Submitted by Artmob Guest on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 21:04.

Souvankham Thammavongsa - Reading

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Souvankham Thammavongsa was born in Thailand and grew up in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in Acta Victoriana, The Fiddlehead, Fireweed, Grain, The Malahat Review, Other Voices, Prairie Fire, Rice Paper Magazine, as well as on CBC Radio. She is part of the editorial collective for big boots, a zine for and by women of colour. Small Arguments (Pedlar Press, 2003) is a collection of thirty tiny poems originally produced as chap books.

Submitted by Artmob Guest on Thu, 07/16/2009 - 21:04.

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