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Farzana Doctor is a celebrated and award-winning Canadian author and speaker whose books are often seen on  'best-of' lists each year. Read more

Globe and Mail Feature: Novelist Farzana Doctor pours a decade of love, loss and life into her first poetry collection
CHCH News: You Still Look The Same is a collection of poetry about the messiness of middle life

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YOU STILL LOOK THE SAME is available worldwide in YOU STILL LOOK THE SAME is available worldwide in #audiobook format! Find it anywhere or link in bio @farzanadoctor RePosted with thanks to @books_and_broadway_ You Still Look the Same ✨ This debut poetry collection was a beautiful way to switch things up. It’s about Farzana Doctor’s forties, through breakups and dating, racism, misogyny, and love. #YouStillLookPoems @freehandbooks @ecwaudio #poetry
Had a wonderful time reading from YOU STILL LOOK T Had a wonderful time reading from YOU STILL LOOK THE SAME at the #ACLALS Conference. Thanks to Anna Guttman for the invitation! Here I’m standing with @drasmasayed and Jacqueline Walker who presented a paper on SEVEN this week (and look at Jacqueline’s million post-it bookmarks!). I am so grateful to students and academics who study my work. 💗
RePosted with thanks to @anuja_v for this generous RePosted with thanks to @anuja_v for this generous review! ✨NEW REVIEW✨ I had the pleasure of reviewing YOU STILL LOOK THE SAME, a new book of poetry by @farzanadoctor out now with @freehandbooks Read the full review in @hamiltonreviewofbooks and add this to your TBR pile right now! 📚📚📚 #poetry #diversebooks #canlit #feministreadinglist #bookstagram
Over the last 2 years, I've become a fan of #audio Over the last 2 years, I've become a fan of #audiobooks and I always have one on the go while also reading a paperback. 3 of my books (Six Metres of Pavement, Seven, You Still Look The Same) are available in this 🎧 format. Here’s a sample of my #poetry collection in audiobook, read by Ulka Simone Mohanty (@ulkam). Big thanks to @ecwaudio for producing it. RePosted • @ecwaudio ⁠ This debut poetry collection is both an intimate deep dive and a humorous glance at the tumultuous decade of her forties. Through crisp and vivid language, Doctor explores mid-life breakups and dating, female genital cutting, imprints of racism and misogyny, and the oddness of sex and love, and urges us to take a second look at the ways in which human relationships are never what we expect them to be. ✨
Sunday’s #reading: this important and compelling Sunday’s #reading: this important and compelling #anthology about #SouthAsian women and #MentalHealth. Edited by Rana Khan, there are 10 evocative stories about struggle and healing from addiction, depression, anxiety, intimate partner abuse and caregiver stress. The contributors also address misogyny, racism and homophobia. Nearly every story also talks about the stigma of sharing these struggles and the lack of culturally competent and affordable mental health supports. An essential read for all of us, and especially for those who work in helping professions. Image description: cover of THE STORIES AROUND US, red swirly background. My brown hand holds it against a purple wall.
Listening to the #audiobook of this informative bo Listening to the #audiobook of this informative book by @drjengunter Facts and feminism! Highly recommend. Thanks to my perimenopausal/menopausal friends for suggesting it. #menopause #perimenopause
RePosted • @freehandbooks 💗💗 Wanted to s RePosted • @freehandbooks 💗💗 Wanted to shine another sparkling light on Natalie Hanna's review in @canthiusmag of @farzanadoctor's You Still Look the Same. Read "A Home for Displaced Feelings" and learn more about Farzana's poetry collection at the link in our bio! #CanLit #BookReview #NewBookReview #FreehandBooks #FarzanaDoctor #YouStillLookPoems
Dad and I took the bus to #Belfast today. Anyone w Dad and I took the bus to #Belfast today. Anyone wanna chip in and buy the old courthouse (last photo)?
Where do I find some red flannel around here? #Va Where do I find some red flannel around here? #VacationQuestions #HolyRiver #LoughNeah
Big thanks to @rachelthefern and @themiramichiread Big thanks to @rachelthefern and @themiramichireader for this generous review! “Introspective and thought-provoking, Doctor’s collection covers many themes including memory, changes, and the ways we must adapt to survive. The poems are profound, yet always approachable. If you enjoy Doctor’s fiction, you’ll delight in her poetry.” #poetry #review #YouStillLookPoems @freehandbooks
Today we traveled around the #AntrimCoast in the N Today we traveled around the #AntrimCoast in the North of Ireland. #GiantsCauseway is a @unescoworldheritage site made up of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. Most of the columns are hexagonal in shape. The last few photos are from #PortRush
Today’s big dilemma: do I leave the laundry out Today’s big dilemma: do I leave the laundry out or wheel the rollie line into the garage? #IrishWeather #4seasonseachday #VacationProblems
This past Girl Guide awards the Storyteller Badge This past Girl Guide awards the Storyteller Badge to @nancyjocullen! This novel was fun vacay reading with just the right amount of emotional depth, including smart psychological repetitions, flawed characters and rewarding resolutions. Will leave it here for the Irish fam to pass around. @wolsakandwynn @girlguidesofcanada
Day 8 vacation highlights: Eileen’s family’s # Day 8 vacation highlights: Eileen’s family’s #DerryLaughan farm (sheep and riding on the back of the John Deere with Pauline) + #Armagh churches
Thanks to @sharon_berg_sarnia at The Artisanal Wri Thanks to @sharon_berg_sarnia at The Artisanal Writer for asking great questions about my poetry collection. Please subscribe to the online journal (free) and check out all their pieces. ArtisanalWriter.com I especially enjoyed thinking about how writing practice has made my therapy work more intuitive and creative. And Question 10–about what I’d change/edit if I could now 💗 @freehandbooks
Things that made me happy on Vacation Day 7: day t Things that made me happy on Vacation Day 7: day trip with Dad and Eileen to The Argory’s gardens, the organ Isobel—the tour guide—played for us, and the 2 cows who came to the fence to eat green grass from my hand. @nationaltrust
RePosted• @bearclanpatrolcalgary We won’t be RePosted• @bearclanpatrolcalgary We won’t be wearing red on Canada day. Not now not ever. Cancel Canada Day. We are going to be patrolling that day. But it’s not for celebration #cancelcanadaday #landback #everychildmatters🧡 etransfers accepted at bearclanyyc@gmail.com note CancelCanadaDay all proceeds go. Back to the community we serve
Things that made me happy on Day 6 of my vacation: Things that made me happy on Day 6 of my vacation: walking at the Lough, seeing my step-mum’s family home (and the sheep!), reading The Western Alienation Merit Badge by @nancyjocullen, soda farls, visiting the pretty church and graveyard, kids on bikes, and watching @manahilbanduk share her MRP.
The next part of my Northern Ireland trip includes The next part of my Northern Ireland trip includes hanging out with Dad and Eileen in this rural paradise. #coalisland #NorthernIreland #LoughNeagh #familytime💕
This evening #Derry! Thanks to Void Gallery and Fr This evening #Derry! Thanks to Void Gallery and Francis David Rafferty of Bluebell Arts for inviting me to be part of their #poetry and #music night along with these talented folks. @francis_david_rafferty @bluebell_arts_derry @derryvoid @freehandbooks
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