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Yusuf Saadi

Yusuf Saadi’s first collection is Pluviophile (Nightwood Editions April 2020). He previously won The Malahat Review‘s 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry and the 2016 Vallum Chapbook Award. His writing has also appeared in journals including Brick, Best Canadian Poetry 2019, Best Canadian Poetry 2018, Canadian Notes & Queries, Arc, CV2, and The Puritan. Yusuf holds an MA from the University of Victoria and currently resides in Montreal, though he thinks of Victoria often.

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Pluviophile

Pluviophile

By Yusuf Saadi

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