{"id":11050,"date":"2019-07-25T17:02:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T21:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=11050"},"modified":"2026-03-12T17:25:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:25:54","slug":"nicole-raziya-fong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/nicole-raziya-fong\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Raziya Fong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>Nicole Raziya Fong is a poet living in Montreal. She majored in creative writing when studying at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. Fong was born in western Canada to parents with roots in Trinidad and Suriname.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"324\" height=\"499\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2021\/05\/Oracule-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13415 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 324px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 324\/499;width:186px;height:287px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2021\/05\/Oracule-book-cover.jpg 324w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2021\/05\/Oracule-book-cover-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2021\/05\/Oracule-book-cover-97x150.jpg 97w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oracule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2021.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/torontomu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/fulldisplay?vid=01OCUL_TMU:01OCUL_TMU&amp;docid=alma991006633439708636\">PS8611.O5545 O73 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>O\u042fACULE<\/em>&nbsp;occurs at the intersection of poetry and theatre. The book\u2019s dramatis personae inhabits a classical and cosmological world where psychic phenomena constantly threaten to impinge upon the arc of combat occurring between the women trapped within. Influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Birth of Tragedy<\/em>, the writings of Plato and Homer, and the films of Pier Paolo Pasolini,&nbsp;<em>O\u042fACULE<\/em>&nbsp;interweaves lyric expression of dreams, theatrical dialogue, songs, and the voices of both chorus and anti-chorus, interrogating the tenuous relations between absence and time, dream and memory, and conscious and unconscious sensing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"207\" height=\"320\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2019\/07\/Perfact-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11051 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 207px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 207\/320;width:197px;height:305px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2019\/07\/Perfact-book-cover.jpg 207w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2019\/07\/Perfact-book-cover-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2019\/07\/Perfact-book-cover-194x300.jpg 194w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Perfact: Poems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2019.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/torontomu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/fulldisplay?vid=01OCUL_TMU:01OCUL_TMU&amp;docid=alma991001919989708636\">PS8611 .O5545 P47 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPart treatise on phenomenology, part theatrical score on ontology, part billet-doux to poetry itself\u201d (Divya Victor),&nbsp;<em>PE\u042fFACT<\/em> is a three-part series of poems interrogating the nature of experience, language, trauma, and identity. This moving, philosophical debut, whose influences range from Antonin Artaud and Simone Weil to Gertrude Stein and George Oppen, meditates on materiality and consciousness, empathy and awareness, absence and mutuality \u2013 the physical presence of language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"145\" height=\"218\" data-src=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2026\/03\/Subtext-book-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21793 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2026\/03\/Subtext-book-cover.jpg 145w, https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/files\/2026\/03\/Subtext-book-cover-100x150.jpg 100w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 145px) 100vw, 145px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 145px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 145\/218;\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Subtext<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2026.<br>Forthcoming April 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publisher&#8217;s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>SUBTEXT<\/em> refracts the language of identity formation. It collages the echoes of diasporic and colonial histories through poetry, drama, autobiography, and archival uncovering. Divided into four parts, <em>SUBTEXT<\/em> peers into the imperceptible psychic strata created by intergenerational trauma, confronting the challenge of finding one\u2019s place in a sensorium of concealed realities and obscured memories. Dwelling in the bubbling froth of dreamwork, these poems take a multifaceted approach to questions of diaspora and selfhood, incorporating visual and textual elements that dialogue with one another and ask readers to negotiate the unsteady shoals of identity and history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/talonbooks.com\">Talonbooks<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole Raziya Fong is a poet living in Montreal. She majored in creative writing when studying at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. 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