The Seventh Town of Ghosts

Trillium Book Award for Poetry, Finalist Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Shortlist Pat Lowther Memorial Award, Shortlist CBC Poetry Prize finalist and National Magazine Award honoree Faith Arkorful’s breathtaking, surpassingly thoughtful debut collection of poems. Hauntings form the canopy of The Seventh Town of Ghosts . These titular towns, centred in yesterdays, tomorrows, and the ongoing, lead to a special kind of singing: songs to the reader who wrestles with existence, the unsure peace withi