really happy to learn of your group... & hope to join sessions where possible. (email us via website)

trace press trace press publishes books that illuminate, in complex, beautiful and thought-provoking ways, contemporary and historical experiences of conflict, displacement, migration, labour, love and resistance...

check out our titles at tracepress.org. happy to give a discount code for your group orders

@pashamkhan.bsky.social
@teesriduniyatheatr.bsky.social

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Montrealers!
come join us to build community & solidarity with poetry & conversation

Thursday April 30
7:00 pm
Teesri Duniya Theatre
261 Ave. Des Pins Ouest
- free
#AprilPoetryMonth
#NPM26
#ArabHeritageMonth
#Arabic
#Tamil
#Palestine

Arabic, between Love and War edited by Yasmine Haj and Norah Alkharashi ISBN: 978-1-775-2567-6-2 Poetry | Translation | Arabic   trace: translating [x] series In Arabic, the word for love حب  is one letter shorter than the word…

Read ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR this #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth!

In this poetry anthology published by @tracepress.bsky.social and edited by Norah Alkharashi and Yasmine Haj, “language dissolves into cities, landscapes, or portals that open to rubble, or only air.”
tracepress.org/en-us/produc...

typo- born in 1917 (not 2017)

just noticed the typo! she was born in 1917....

"This Earthly Planet" poem in Arabic by Fadwa Tuqan & English translation by Eman Abukhadra - from ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (c)trace press

Fadwa Tuqan was born on March 1, 2017 & died in 2003 as her hometown Nablus was under seige. Her poem "This Earthly Planet" was translated for #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar by Eman Abukhadra.
Please read today in honour of all who continue to resist.
#WomensHistoryMonth #PalestinianPoetry

"This Earthly Planet" poem in Arabic by Fadwa Tuqan & English translation by Eman Abukhadra - from ARABIC, BETWEEN LOVE AND WAR (c)trace press

Fadwa Tuqan was born on March 1, 2017 & died in 2003 as her hometown Nablus was under seige. Her poem "This Earthly Planet" was translated for #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar by Eman Abukhadra.
Please read today in honour of all who continue to resist.
#WomensHistoryMonth #PalestinianPoetry

Uncountable billions to destroy people, cities & civilizations on earth, & now to pollute & colonize our common, ancestrally honoured moon.

cream background with trace logo & quote from Otoniya J.Okot Bitek in River in an Ocean (trace, 2023)

Cream background with trace logo & quote from Iryn Tushabe in River in an Ocean (trace, 2023)

cream background with trace logo & quote from Lisa Ndejuru in River in an Ocean (trace, 2023).

Over the next few months we will re-introduce you to thought-provoking excerpts from our groundbreaking essay collection #riverinanocean

Today, we begin with @jobitek.bsky.social, @wordsweaver.bsky.social & Lisa Ndejuru

#smallpress
#blackhistorymonth #decolonial #translation #feminist #essay

51 casualties in an elementary girls school.

this is how they begin their wars.

Last 2 days for 15% discount!

yellow background with 3 books from trace press: Tamil Terrains, River in an Ocean & Arabic, between Love & War. 15% off Feb 23-28 for Language Advocacy Day & Freedom to Read Week.

Join us this week to read & resist all those who wish to enforce monolingualism & monoculturalism, eurocentric nationalisms, & heteronormative & regressive gendering.

Visit tracepress.org for 15% off all our books

To learn more: languageadvocacyday.org & freedomtoread.ca
#LAD26
#FTRW26

A few US customers seem to be unable to order from our (canadian) website. Not sure why that is, but we're checking... Please note that all our books can also be ordered via your favourite local indy bookstore + we especially recommend US folks to order from Open Books @workshops4gaza.bsky.social

"Finally, translation is also recognized as an act of resistance, speaking to the dislocation from homelands due to colonial actions, war, and migration, and the displacements of the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island."
- Joseph Schreiber
#Review
#TamilTerrains
#Bksky
#Poetry
#Translation

yellow background with 3 books from trace press: Tamil Terrains, River in an Ocean & Arabic, between Love & War. 15% off Feb 23-28 for Language Advocacy Day & Freedom to Read Week.

Join us this week to read & resist all those who wish to enforce monolingualism & monoculturalism, eurocentric nationalisms, & heteronormative & regressive gendering.

Visit tracepress.org for 15% off all our books

To learn more: languageadvocacyday.org & freedomtoread.ca
#LAD26
#FTRW26

(this goes for books too...)

"If the art you’re making, exhibiting, and circulating can only be supported by the people who pull us into the mud with them, is it worth it? " -
@hrag.bsky.social

"Finally, translation is also recognized as an act of resistance, speaking to the dislocation from homelands due to colonial actions, war, and migration, and the displacements of the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island."
- Joseph Schreiber
#Review
#TamilTerrains
#Bksky
#Poetry
#Translation

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The landscapes that shape us, the landscapes we carry with us: Tamil Terrains, Edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran Raging winds howl to the vakai trees as their pods tremble in fear. A land cloaked with countless peaks yet not an ounce of soul. It was this cold grim path that he, the ruler of my heart, chose ov…

The landscapes that shape us, the landscapes we carry with us: Tamil Terrains, Edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran @tracepress.bsky.social
roughghosts.com/2026/02/05/t...

front cover of TAMIL TERRAINS with bw photo of boats (trace, 2025).

back cover of TAMIL TERRAINS with description & names of contributors. (trace, 2025)

Thanks to all who attended recent TO & online events for #TamilTerrains! An excerpt from Nedra Rodrigo's essay is up at @adimagazine.bsky.social & poems translated by Subhanya Sivajothy & Yalini Jothilingam are on @alllitupcanada.bsky.social poetry blog.

Fitting to read Carney in the context of European interwar period, when Césaire wrote "it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it"

"...we lingered on those moments where the literary text acts as an archive of a cultural, historical, or artisanal experience. To translate them with a reverence for the archive seemed to be a form of resistance against the monolithic identities we are compelled to occupy in diaspora."

To Translate is to Resist I could not enter the practice of translation feigning ignorance of the myriad ways in which translation has served as a tool of surveillance, categorization, and suppression. As much as translation h...

We're thrilled to share the essay "To Translate is to Resist" by Nedra Rodrigo, excerpted from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social, November 2025) with artwork by Kaya Joan!

Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/to-...

The Four Colours of Blood: An Interview with Norah Alkharashi and Yasmine Haj on the Arabic Poetry of Love and War - Asymptote Blog The more we bridge our languages, the more effective our collective resistance can be.

"When contexts like our own become unfathomable to their contemporary subjects, seeking past texts can help reframe them, to offer solace through such untranslatable times, or perhaps usher in a word or two to help us understand, interpret."

- Yasmine Haj
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
#translation

cover of TAMIL TERRAINS (c) trace press 2025. Bilingual title with BW photo of boats near shore.

Back cover of TAMIL TERRAINS with book description & poets & translators. (c) trace press 2025.

Thai Pongal
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To celebrate #TamilHistoryMonth do check out #TamilTerrains - our gorgeous community-centred bilingual collection of poems, translations & reflections that explore time, place, memory, labour & resistance.

The cover of Tamil Terrains, edited by Geetha Sukumaran and Nedra Rodrigo

For #TamilHeritageMonth, we're sharing two poems from TAMIL TERRAINS (@tracepress.bsky.social), a new collection of poems, translations, and reimagined texts that trace the journeys of Tamil language and culture through migration, colonialism, labour, and love.

alllitup.ca/two-poems-ta...

cover of TAMIL TERRAINS (c) trace press 2025. Bilingual title with BW photo of boats near shore.

Back cover of TAMIL TERRAINS with book description & poets & translators. (c) trace press 2025.

Thai Pongal
🌺🍚

To celebrate #TamilHistoryMonth do check out #TamilTerrains - our gorgeous community-centred bilingual collection of poems, translations & reflections that explore time, place, memory, labour & resistance.

Do check out our beautiful, community-centred bilingual anthology: #TamilTerrains, co-edited by Scarborough-based poet, translator & academic Geetha Sukumaran & TO-based translator, scholar & cultural curator Nedra Rodrigo. Available in all bkstores
#TamilHeritageMonth