{"id":14890,"date":"2022-03-13T16:19:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T20:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=14890"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:17:38","slug":"sanna-wani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/sanna-wani\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanna Wani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sanna Wani is a poet who lives in Mississauga, Ontario and Srinagar, Kashmir. Her chapbook The Pink of the Seams<\/em>, published by Penrose Press is no longer available. Wani is the publicity and promotions manager and poetry editor at Fernwood Publishing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

Lantern: Poems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2026.
forthcoming September 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Meditating on the beauty of an ordinary life, Sanna Wani\u2019s second poetry collection, Lantern<\/em>, explores how we fall in love and make a home. What does it mean to belong to a city, or to truly enter adulthood? Imbued with a quiet queerness, this book is a guide for living in the aftermath of familial rifts, crises of faith, political struggle, and intergenerational grief\u2014all while remaining devoted to an idea of goodness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A love letter to Toronto, Lantern<\/em> is grounded in subway stations and city parks yet textured like watercolour and linen. Wani writes with reverence for animals, trees and flowers, but does not avoid everyday difficulties\u2014the burnout of a 9-5; her fraught homeland of Kashmir; or the reality of Islamophobia in Canada. Wani also addresses the craft and the limits of language. Lantern<\/em> is kaleidoscopic in its queries: memory, mothering and morality refract through tarot, Sufism, and psychoanalysis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

My Grief, the Sun: Poems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

[Toronto]: House of Anansi Press, 2022.
PS8645.A655 M9 2022<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Sharply political and frequently magical, these poems reach for everything from Hayao Miyazaki\u2019s 1997 film Princess Mononoke <\/em>to German Orientalist scholarship on early Islam. In these often intimate poems, every verse invokes ode and elegy. Love and grief sit side by side. My Grief, the Sun <\/em>listens carefully to the world\u2019s breathing, addresses the endless and ineffable you, and promises enough joy and sorrow to keep growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From concrete to confessional poem, exegesis to erasure, the Missinnihe River in Canada to the Zabarwan Mountains in Kashmir, Waniundoes and complicates genre and gathers the world between the poet\u2019s hands.<\/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 Trillium Book Award for Poetry (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wani, Sanna. Interview with Tali Voron. The Ampersand Review of Writing & Publishing<\/em>. No. 5 (Winter 2024), p. 78-84.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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

Sanna Wani personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher House of Anansi Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Penrose Press – Out of print highlights<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sanna Wani is a poet who lives in Mississauga, Ontario and Srinagar, Kashmir. Her chapbook The Pink of the Seams, published by Penrose Press is no longer available. Wani is the publicity and promotions manager and poetry editor at Fernwood … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":16,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14890","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14890"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22057,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14890\/revisions\/22057"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}