Bramah’s Quest Nominated for SFPA’s 2024 Elgin Award

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has nominated Renee Sarojini Saklikar’s book, Bramah’s Quest (Nightwood Editions), for this year’s annual Elgin Award. The award recognizes the best poetry chapbook or book and was named after SFPA founder Suzette Haden Elgin. More information about the award and nominations list can be found on their website.

Bramah’s Quest is the second instalment of Saklikar's epic fantasy in verse, THOT J BAP, and features the time-travelling locksmith, Bramah. The poem takes place in the year 2087 as Bramah searches for her people and the little boy Raphael on an Earth ravaged by climate change and global inequality. The book weaves poetry with politics to create an epic family saga that is also a meditation on good and evil. Braham is determined to conquer the odds and deal with what fate and chance throw in her path.

Renee Sarojini Saklikar is a Canadian award-winning poet whose poetry book about the bombing of Air India Flight 182, children of air india, won the Canadian Authors Association Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her work Listening to Bees, co-authored by Dr. Mark Winston won the 2019 Gold Medal Independent Publishers Book Award (Environment/Ecology). Trained as a Lawyer, Saklikar is an instructor at SFU and VCC, and she was the first Poet Laureate for the City of Surrey as well as the 2017 UBC Okanagan Writer in Residence.