{"id":12290,"date":"2020-06-08T20:43:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T00:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=12290"},"modified":"2024-09-12T19:36:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T23:36:13","slug":"manahil-bandukwala","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/manahil-bandukwala\/","title":{"rendered":"Manahil Bandukwala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Manahil Bandukwala is a Pakistani-Canadian poet, writer, editor and visual artist based in Ottawa. She earned an undergraduate degree in English and Women’s and Gender Studies, followed by an MA in English from the University of Waterloo. Bandukwala’s work has been published an numerous literary journals. With her sister Nimra, she is co-lead of Reth aur Reghistan<\/a><\/em>, a sculptural storytelling project that explores Pakistani folklore. Bandukwala is very active in some micro-press initiatives that produce collaborative chapbooks and poetry anthologies. For example, she along with six other Ottawa-based poets, including Ellen Chang-Richardson, will be releasing the chapbook Towers<\/em>, in May 2021 from Collusion Books. Bandukwala was the Coordinating Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine<\/em>. She is a columnist for Open Book, and Digital Content Editor for Canthius<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Heliotropia<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kingston, Ont.: Brick Books, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Manahil Bandukwala\u2019s second collection of poems is a meditation on love during times of social and political upheaval. As a sunflower\u2019s growth reaches toward the sun, so, she suggests, is a lover\u2019s growth compelled by the gravitational pull and soul-light of their beloved. Many of these poems are in conversation with other poets and artists, creating a lineage of call and response. Against a backdrop of terrestrial crisis, come, spend your precious minutes in love\u2019s\u00a0Heliotropia,<\/em>\u00a0where we are magnetized by the unfathomable dark matter of another person, and know ourselves as celestial bodies flowering in spacetime, together.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Monument<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kingston: Brick Books, 2022.
e-book<\/a> (Access restricted to members of the university community)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

MONU<\/s>MENT<\/em> is a conversation with Mughal Empress Mumtaz Mahal, which moves her legacy beyond the Taj Mahal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MONU<\/s>MENT<\/em> upturns notions of love, monumentalisation, and empire by exploring buried facets of Mumtaz Mahal\u2019s story. The collection layers linear time and geographical space to chart the continuing presence of historical legacies. It considers what alternate futures could have been possible. Who are we when we continue to make the same mistakes? Beyond distance, time, and boundaries, what do we still carry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2023 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award<\/a> (League of Canadian Poets)(Finalist)
2023 Alcuin Award–Poetry <\/a>for excellence in book design (2nd prize) Design by Natalie Olsen, Illustration by Manahil Bandukwala<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Paper Doll<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Anstruther Press, 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Pipe Rose<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ottawa: Battleaxe Press, 2018.
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Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Sprawl: The Time it Took Us to Forget<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Co-author: Conyer Clayton
Collusion Books, 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Short stories; Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Encounter: Stories & Sculptures based on Pakistani folklore<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Manahil & Nimra Bandukwala
Vancouver: Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction, Poetry and Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Women Wide Awake: Stories, Sculptures and Poems from Sindhi Folklore<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Manila Bandukwala and Nima Bandukwala
Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Women Wide Awake<\/em>\u00a0is a collection of stories, poems, and visual art exploring folklore from the region of Sindh, Pakistan. This multi-genre book features stories of women, witches, sea monsters, and mystical saints, accompanied by art and poetry. Collectively they explore themes that have resonated with people for centuries\u2014acts of courage, strength, defiance, and love. Two sisters build a labyrinthine palace to test their suitors . . . a woman swims across a treacherous river at night to meet her forbidden lover . . . a bartendress makes a grave mistake. These folktales have persisted across generations and national boundaries through ritual storytelling and song. The sculptures were created using reclaimed materials: sari fabric, wedding invitations, flowers, shells, and animal bones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Manahil Bandukwala personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Anstruther Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Battleaxe Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Brick Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Collusion Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Publisher Rahila’s Ghost Press<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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