Disparition de l'écrivaine Ayanna Black : les Editions du Marais lui rendent hommage

L'écrivaine Ayanna Black, dont l'un des grands receuils de poésie, "Invoking the Spirits", a été publié aux Editions du Marais, s'est éteinte à son domicile le 21 juillet dernier, des suites d'une longue maladie.

Ayanna Black était l'une des pionnières parmi les poètes Noires du Canada. Elle s'était notamment impliquée dans le mouvement féministe pendant plus de vingt ans, et fut l'un des membres fondateurs du Tiger Lily Journal, le premier magazine Canadien pour les femmes de couleur.

Des hommages nombreux ont été rendus à la suite de sa disparition ; nous vous livrons celui rendu par la Directrice des Editions du Marais, Natania Etienne :

"LOVE THANK YOU FOR ALL WHAT YOU DID FOR HER YOU RECONCILIATE ME WITH HUMANITY.

She was a poet, on her journey in this life she had a heart as big as the world. How can I thank her for her humanity and what she did for others but especially for GERARD ETIENNE z'l' and I when everybody else had turned their back. And then she was there for us after. She leaves behind her writings and the anthologies she had put together she was one of the few who wanted space for everybody. For Ayanna you could be Black Jewish German French whatever you were not a stranger

Natania ETIENNE"

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Toronto : The official launch of "Invoking the Spirits"

Ayanna Black's Invoking the Spirits, the latest book of poetry signed by one of the Black pioneer poetress in Canada, will be unveiled in Toronto on Thursday, March 20, from 7 to 9 pm.

The launch will take place in the bookshop, A Different Booklist, located on 746 Bathurst Street at Bloor.

Invoking the Spirits is a moving quest for an "imaginary" Father. In her hauting search, Ayanna Black weaves her yearning, a political chant for Africa, her ancestral land, her ancestral music. As she travels from Germany to Mexico and back home to Toronto, she explores and integrates other cultural histories with her own personal sense of loss.

Ayanna Black was born in Jamaica, and lived in England for several years before emigrating to Canada in 1964. Her work has been anthologized in Canada and in the Caribbean. She is one of the founding members of Tiger Lily, Canada's first magazine by women of colour. She also contributes to Fuse magazine, writing on cultural, social and political issues. She has conducted poetry workshops in the schools, and has given readings in major cities in Canada, the U.S, England, and Italy.

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Invoking the Spirits is published by Les Editions du Marais.