"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."
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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.

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.

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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.

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

you might love our community-centred bilingual anthology #TamilTerrains
(available via any bkstore in N.America)

Tamil Terrains: Poems, Translations, Reflections with Trace Press | Upstart & Crow What happens when a two-thousand-year-old language, rooted in a classical poetics of land, is moved, along with its peoples, through colonial and postcolonial upheavals, war and forced or voluntary mi...

Join us!
SUNDAY
Nov 16
9.30 am PST / 12.30 pm EST
(#Vancouver-online)
Upstart & Crow
#TamilTerrains

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Tamil Terrains poems. translations. reflections edited by Nedra Rodrigo & Geetha Sukumaran ISBN: 9781775256786 Poetry | Translation | Tamil  trace: translating [x] series   What happens when a two-thousand-year-...

« What happens when a two-thousand-year-old language, rooted in a classical poetics of land, is moved, along with its peoples, through colonial and postcolonial upheavals, war & forced or voluntary migrations? »
#TamilTerrains

Available at your local bookstore + here:
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Five Toronto-based Tamil translator-poets reading at book launch for trace press’s anthology TAMIL TERRAINS anthology. L-R: Abi Jeyaratnam, Nedra Rodrigo, Geetha Sukumarsn, Subhanya Sivajothy, & Gobiga Nada.

from last Friday’s fabulous book launch for #TamilTerrains in Toronto.

Big thanks to editors Nedra & Geetha, and emerging poet-translators Abi, Subhanya & Gobiga. & an audience that received this work with such thoughtful questions & poignant comments.

Photo of Another Story Bookshop display of trace press books : Arabic, between Love and War, & Tamil Terrains.

If in #Toronto, go check out
@anotherstoryto.bsky.social’s wonderful display of Canadian small press books!

We were thrilled to see our new book #TamilTerrains side by side with #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar from our trace: translating [x] series

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Grey & yellow background with book cover with BW photo of boats. (c) trace press, Tamil Terrains 2025.

#Toronto has the world’s largest #Tamil diaspora. & also some fabulous bilingual poets & translators. Come join us to celebrate the launch of #TamilTerrains Friday. Nov 7th
7-9 pm
Friends House

Heartfelt online readings today from #TamilTerrains & our poet-translators in Malaysia, Singapore, India, UK, & Canada. Really thrilled to have Rashmy & Tharmini join us as well.
Stay tuned for #Toronto launch…

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#translation
#Tamil
#poetry

Yellow background with BW book cover with boats for TAMIL TERRAINs. (trace press 2025).

🔸Please support this beautiful project by pre-ordering a copy of #TamilTerrains
🔸join us on Sunday, Oct 19: 11am-1pm EST—
for a global online reading.
(details nxt week)

2 books from trace press on a red moroccan carpet. River in an Ocean & Arabic, between Love and War.

What does it mean to write or translate from an antiracist, feminist, queer, & decolonial lens?

These are questions we explore in all our books at trace —where every day is #InternationalTranslationDay

#riverinanocean
#ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar
#TamilTerrains

📚#TranslateMonth

A time for closure (yes, #TamilTerrains is almost ready to print!) & boxes of our 2nd print-run for #ArabicBetweenLoveAndWar just arrived…

& a time for new beginnings—signing contracts & receiving manuscripts for trace’s 🌶️award-winning 2026 & 2027 lists.