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Shadow Price - by Farah Ghafoor (Paperback)

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  • Shortlisted, 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry Shortlisted, 2026 Trillium Book Away for Poetry Longlisted, 2025 Toronto Book Awards Shortlisted, 2026 League of Canadian Poets' Raymond Souster Award A CBC Best Book of 2025 Borrowing its title from a finance term--"the estimated price of a good or service for which no market price exists"--Shadow Price is a stunning debut that examines the idea of value in a world that burns under our capitalist lens.
  • Author(s): Farah Ghafoor
  • 126 Pages
  • Poetry, Women Authors

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Shortlisted, 2025 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry
Shortlisted, 2026 Trillium Book Away for Poetry
Longlisted, 2025 Toronto Book Awards
Shortlisted, 2026 League of Canadian Poets' Raymond Souster Award
A CBC Best Book of 2025

Borrowing its title from a finance term--"the estimated price of a good or service for which no market price exists"--Shadow Price is a stunning debut that examines the idea of value in a world that burns under our capitalist lens.

What gives life value? How do we serve existing societal structures that determine its cost? Employing both surreal and documentary imagery, Farah Ghafoor's arresting collection articulates how narrative is used to revise the past and manipulate the future, ultimately forming our present-day climate crisis. Interrogating personal complicity, generational implications, and the shock of our collective disregard for a world that sustains every living thing, Shadow Price captures the complexities of living and writing as a young poet born in the year that "climate change denial" first appeared in print. Mourning the loss of Earth's biodiversity, from insects to mammoths to trees, these introspective poems invite us to consider the risks and rewards of loving what may vanish in our lifetime.

Shadow Price charges readers to contemplate their power and purpose in the world today, recognizing that there is hope even in the belly of the beast.



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"A groundbreaking take on ecopoetry ... [Shadow Price manages to] show us a world that is beautiful and, above all, inherently valuable." -- Room



"This collection serves as a stark reminder of how much we've already lost to capitalism and a warning of how much we still have to lose. Wrapped in lyrics that are lively and irresistible, this is a call to action." -- Spring Magazine



"Urgent debut." -- Winnipeg Free Press



"Ghafoor's words hold up a mirror to society, asking whether we still have time or if it is already too late ... Gut-wrenching. -- Quebec Library Association


Dimensions (Overall): 7.9 Inches (H) x 5.7 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)
Weight: .5 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 126
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: Women Authors
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Farah Ghafoor
Language: English
Street Date: April 1, 2025
TCIN: 91717468
UPC: 9781487012922
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-7613
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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