Les Appels du Vide

Les Appels du Vide is a collection of short poems honouring the jarring, shocking and thought provoking nature of grief. Grief intrudes the stitching of the fabrics that make up our lives.

These thoughts provoked within us are as revolutionary to our characters as they are shocking, and instinctively we repress them.

This book honours them and brings them into the light instead.

Naba Qayum is a Pakistani Canadian and first time author. She wrote this collection of poems throughout a span of five years to document her experience with love, grief, growing pains, and the collisions that occur between these phenomena. Naba is currently completing a bachelor’s degree in criminology and a minor in law at the University of Montreal.