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Episode 151: Bramah and the Beggar Boy — with Renée Sarojini Saklikar
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Writer and poet, Ren茅e Sarojini Saklikar joins Am Johal on this episode of Below the Radar to talk about her latest work, Bramah and The Beggar Boy, first in a series, THOT J BAP (The Heart Of This Journey Bears All Patterns).
In this episode, Ren茅e reads passages from her new story and discusses the act of writing as a woman of colour, her creative process, and how writing can be a form of survival and resistance.
Her book is an epic poem and story which was an amazing 10-year undertaking, describing a future dealing with climate change and a viral bio-contagion. Bramah, a locksmith, part human and part goddess, is part of the poet鈥檚 鈥渓ife-long project of unlocking and unbinding, of challenging the primacy of borders, the formal, the political and the self-imposed.鈥� More details about Ren茅e鈥檚 new book and her previous books can be found in the resources below.
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About Our Guest
Ren茅e Sarojini Saklikar
Ren茅e Sarojini Saklikar is a poet and lawyer who lives in Vancouver.
She is the author of the ground-breaking poetry book, children of air india, about the bombing of Air India Flight 182 which won the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize and is the co-author, with Dr. Mark Winston, of the poetry and essay collection, Listening to the Bees, winner of the 2019 Gold Medal Independent Publishers Book Award, Environment/Ecology. She is the curator of the poetry reading series Lunch Poems at 大象传媒 and in 2021 curated Vancouver鈥檚 first free Poetry Phone, 1-833-POEMS-4-U. Ren茅e Sarojini is an instructor for 大象传媒 and VCC and was the first poet laureate for the City of Surrey, (2015-2018).
Her work has been adapted for opera, visual art and dance. Her epic fantasy series in verse, THOT J BAP: The Heart Of This Journey Bears All Patterns, is about a female hero battling to save a planet ravaged by climate change, launched in 2021.
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Johal, Am. 鈥淏ramah and the Beggar Boy 鈥� with Ren茅e Sarojini Saklikar.鈥� Below the Radar, 大象传媒鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, December 21, 2021. /vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/151-renee-sarojini-saklikar.html.
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