January’s Lunch Poems reading in SFU Harbour Centre’s Room 2270 features poets Bradley Peters and Tāriq Malik.
Bradley Peters
Bradley Peters is a poet and actor from Yarrow, BC. His work has been shortlisted or runner-up for several awards, has won the Grain Poetry Contest, and has appeared in numerous literary magazine’s, including Arc, Geist, Grain, subTerrain, Prism, and The Malahat Review. Bradley's debut poetry collection, Sonnets from a Cell, was a finalist for the Governor Generals Award, was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Award and the Gerald Lampert Award, and won both the Raymond Souster Award and the Alcuin Award.
Tāriq Malik
Vancouver-based DesiPOC author Tāriq Malik has worked across poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and visual arts for the past four decades to distill immersive and original narratives. He writes intensely in response to the world in flux around him and to his place in its shadows.
Born in Pakistani Punjab, he came reluctantly late to these shores, having to first survive three wars, two migrations, and two decades of slaving in the Kuwaiti desert before landing here.
He is the author of Rainsongs of Kotli, Chanting Denied Shores, and Unmooring the Komagata Maru (Poetry section), and poetry anthologies Exit Wounds, and Blood of Stone.
His writing has appeared in The Polyglot Magazine, The Puritan, TWUC’s Write Magazine, The Aleph Review, and Verbal Art (July 2019), among others.
He has been the Writer-in-Residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House (July 2023), and currently at the Polyglot Magazine.
