{"id":445,"date":"2012-06-15T19:34:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/peter-jailall\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T19:56:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T00:56:41","slug":"jailall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/jailall\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Jailall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peter Jailall was born in Guyana. He is a poet, teacher, and storyteller, and social activist who lives in Mississauga, Ontario where he was a teacher with the Peel Board of Education. Jailall was a finalist for the 2002 Mississauga Arts Award in the category of Established Literary Artist. Also that year, he completed an M.A. at the University of Toronto with a thesis entitled: The Challenge of Language and Literacy in Guyanese Schools<\/span>. In recent years, Jailall has utilized the self-publishing services of In Our Words Inc. to publish a work of non-fiction entitled Jottings: A Teacher’s Logbook<\/em> (2014), an anti-bullying picture book, illustrated by Shirley Aguinaldo, entitled: STOP! STOP! Don’t be a Bully<\/em> (2015), and a new volume of poetry: Sacrifice: Poems on the Indian Arrival in Guyana<\/em> (2017). In the fall of 2020, Jailall was awarded the third Pakaraima Literary Award for his longstanding contributions in literature and the arts. Pakaraima is the Guyanese Canadian Writers and Artists Association.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Poetry<\/h3>\n

Sacrifice: Poems on the Indian Arrival in Guyana: New and Selected Poems<\/h3>\n

Streetsville, ON: In Our Words Inc., 2017.
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Poetry<\/h3>\n

This Healing Place and Other Poems<\/h3>\n

Toronto: Natural Heritage\/Natural History, 1993.
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Poetry<\/h3>\n

When September Comes and Other Poems<\/h3>\n

Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2003.
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Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n

Peter Jailall continues his search for the place called home in his third volume of poetry, exploring the “open, dangerous” landscape of a post-September 11th world. In this climate of globalization, none are untouched by the threats of terrorism or the spoils of modernization and its effect on our environment. … Peter’s unique gift for the blending of language — from Caribbean-accented English to Hindi — allows him to paint beautiful dichotomies between the Guyana of his birth, and the Canada that is his current home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Poetry<\/h3>\n

Yet Another Home: Poems<\/h3>\n

Toronto: Natural Heritage\/Natural History, 1997.
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Links<\/h3>\n

Jailall member profile<\/a> from the Writers’ Union of Canada website<\/p>\n

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

Publisher Natural Heritage Books<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher In Our Words Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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