**Shortlisted for the 2022 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry**
In Prathna Lor’s first full-length collection we are introduced to a unique voice in Canadian poetry. Moving fluidly between prose poems and more fractured, open verse, Lor meditates on voice, on disaster and on identity, pushing always against commodification, against a consumable narrative.
ADVANCE PRAISE
“In the luminous pages of Emanations we encounter nothing less than a radical philosophy of being: ‘I never emerge / seeking only insurgence / a moment of recovery / to listen extraordinarily.’ The language here is insistently embodied yet metaphysical – affective, conceptual, and inspiringly bold in both directness and vulnerability: ‘If whatever can be said / is eruption, let me speak plainly.’ Prathna Lor has gifted us with a vital book for our time, a needful summons to life and possibility ever abounding: ‘What will it take for you to know that it’s enough / To wander into marvels.'” – David Chariandy, author of Soucouyant and Brother
“These poems conduct language in the manner of electricity passing through the body. Emanations is a compassionate transmission of mutating reverence and alienation for this life. Prathna Lor allows us to receive ‘untouchable slumbering / beneath the creak.’ Here is delight, terror and peace. Wander in and receive them.” – Lee Suksi, author of The Nerves
REVIEWS
Welcoming the Calamity (Emma Telaro, Montreal Review of Books, 04/07/2022)
“Lor both interrogates and reaffirms the lyrical subject by proposing a fractured yet expansive self. This collection is for the poetry reader looking for a new and luminous literary voice.”
Prathna Lor, Emanations: Poems (rob mclennan, rob mclennan’s blog, 19/05/2022)
“Lor writes across the contours of self-creation and discovery, articulating values of both the collective and the personal, and the ways through which so much is lost through commodification.”
