Les Appels du Vide: The Calls of the Void

By Naba Qayum

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. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
• Release date: Oct 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9781649799401

Naba Qayum

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.

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About the Author

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.

Dedication

To my mama, who turned bones to marble. I owe you every step forward, all the way to paradise.

To my family, for picking up glass pieces with their bare hands and turning them into the mosaic that our family is.

To my cousin Safah, for being the number one supporter of my writing, in its rawest form.

And to Aminah, who was my number one supporter of me in my most unrefurbished form.

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Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data

Qayum, Naba

Les Appels du Vide

ISBN 9781649799395 (Paperback)

ISBN 9781649799401 (ePub e-book)