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“Kama La Mackerel\u2019s debut poetry collection, ZOM-FAM<\/em>, is kaleidoscopic \u2013 literally, it is beautiful in its form and scope.”
\n\u2014T. Liem, Montreal Review of Books<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

“ZOM-FAM<\/em> is a milestone in Mauritian literature [and] explores what it means to craft life and love in the slippery spaces between diasporic, linguistic, and gender identities. La Mackerel\u2019s poetry draws from an ancestral lineage imbued with both suffering and resilience.”
\n\u2014Nikhita Obeegadoo, World Literature Today<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

“ZOM-FAM<\/em> is not only a description, it is an exclamation, a word that carries ancestral stories but also shows a way forward.”
\n\u2014Jade Colbert, The Globe and Mail<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

“This is a story about being and becoming, about creating vocabularies for yourself and stepping into them as you would a home. La Mackerel has wrought such a vocabulary for this collection, one that is tender and honest, that defies the boundaries of the English language.”
\n\u2014Bridget Huh, Canthius Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

“This poetry collection tells a new story of Mauritius’s history, one that includes and celebrates the queer and trans stories that helped shape the island’s history.”
\n\u2014CBC Books<\/a><\/em>, “The best Canadian poetry of 2020”<\/p>\n

“[ZOM-FAM<\/em> is] a work of art, it\u2019s experimental, it\u2019s daring. And it\u2019s also [La Mackerel’s] memoir, rooted in the performance of authenticity and the authenticity of the performance.”
\n\u2014saahil mehta,\u00a0 Brown Girl Magazine<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

“Kama La Mackerel\u2019s poetry is a sensuous and fiercely political exploration of gender, familial love, and the intergenerational impacts of colonization. Their multilingual, lyrical poems entrance with hypnotic rhythm and tell a story that spans decades and borders. La Mackerel captures the power of connections maintained in spite of the blunt, relentless pain of distance. Wooing the reader with a carefully orchestrated, gentle lapping of words, they then jolt us with earned, splashy staccatos of euphoria.”
\n\u20142021 Dayne Ogilvie Prize jury<\/a> (Daniel Allen Cox, Eva Crocker, and Danny Ramadan)<\/p>\n

Author: Kama La Mackerel <\/a><\/p>\n

Cover by Aun Li and Kai Yun Ching<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Available in print (for customers living in Canada and in the US), PDF (worldwide), and EPUB (only upon accessibility-related request).<\/p>\n

by Kama La Mackerel
\nFall 2020<\/p>\n

A CBC Best Book of Poetry<\/strong>
\nA Globe and Mail Best Debut<\/strong>
\nQuebec Writers\u2019 Federation Concordia University First Book Prizel, Finalist<\/strong>
\nLong-listed for the League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial Award<\/strong>
\nWriters’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers, Finalist
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

In their debut poetry collection, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer\/trans narrative of and for their home island, Mauritius. Composed of expansive lyric poems, ZOM-FAM<\/em> (meaning \u201cman-woman\u201d or \u201ctransgender\u201d in Mauritian Kreol) is a voyage into the coming of age of a gender-creative child growing up in the 80s and 90s on the plantation island, as they seek vocabularies for loving and honouring their queer\/trans self amidst the legacy of colonial silences. Multiply voiced and imbued with complex storytelling, ZOM-FAM<\/em> showcases a fluid narrative that summons ancestral voices, femme tongues, broken colonial languages, and a tender queer subjectivity, all of which grapple with the legacy of plantation servitude.<\/p>\n

Emerging from a creative process in spoken word and live performance, these poems transform the page into a stage where the queer femme body is written and mapped onto the colonial space of the home\/island. Interwoven with Kreol, ZOM-FAM<\/em> showcases a unique lyrical sensibility, a musicality influenced by the both unforgiving and soothing rhythms of the ocean, where the poet enunciates the complexity of their displaced Indo-African roots, \u201cthe lineage of silence \/ that we weave in-between our intimacies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Striking, vivid, tender, intimate, and political, ZOM-FAM<\/em> is a beautifully wrought journey that articulates a contemporary decolonial poetics and offers a roadmap for colonized and displaced queer and trans voices to (re)imagine themselves into being.<\/p>\n

Kama La Mackerel <\/b>is a Montreal-based Mauritian- Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, educator, community-arts facilitator, and literary translator who works within and across performance, photography, installations, textiles, digital art, and literature. They have exhibited and performed their work internationally and their writing in English, French, and Kreol has appeared in publications both online and in print. They have lived in far-flung places such as Pune, India and Peterborough, Ontario. ZOM-FAM <\/i>est son premier livre.<\/p>\n

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