Moez Surani

Quick Facts

Full Name	Moez Surani
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Apr 10, 1979(1979-04-10)
Age	45
Birthplace	Toronto
Country	Canada
Birth City	Ontario
Horoscope	Aries

Moez Surani Biography

Moez Surani is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on April 10, 1979 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Moez Surani, a Canadian poet, was born April 10, 1979. He is the author the poetry collections Reticent Bodies, and Floating Life. The title of his fourth book is Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real?

In fall 2009, Reticent Bodies was released. Jacob McArthur Mooney, a poet and critic, stated that the book was a return to the Canadian romantic style of Leonard Cohen or Irving Layton. Another review in the Journal of Canadian Poetry praised the book’s expressiveness.

Surani’s poem “It All Keeps” was included in Best Canadian Poetry 2013 and “Poems to be Performed by kevin mcpherson eckhoff (with or without a Green Elfin Mask)” was included in Best Canadian Poetry 2014.

In 2014, Surani exhibited a work in progress, عملية Operación Opération Operation 行动 Операция. This inventory poem collects together the names of military operations by UN-member countries from the founding of the United Nations to the present.

Surani was awarded a Chalmers Arts Fellowship in 2008 to travel to his ancestral home of India and East Africa. Surani’s trip to India and East Africa saw him write “Kilimanjaro Journal” as well as the poem “Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real,” for which he won the Antigonish Review Great Blue Heron Poetry Prize in 2010. The jury citation for the award states that Surani’s poem “dramatizes tension between the worlds of collective myth and poetic imagination on one hand, and individual experience and empirical decisions on the other.”

Moez Surani Net Worth

Moez Surani is one of the richest Poet from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Moez Surani 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Poems taken from Surani’s first collection, Reticent Bodies began to appear in 2001 when Todd Swift, a Canadian poet, published the anthology 100 Poets Against the War. As part of this critique on the Iraq War, Surani’s “Realpolitik” was first published under the pseudonym of “d.m.” In 2001, Surani won the Kingston Literary Award. His short story, “In Times of Drought”, depicts the journey of two brothers who travel from Afghanistan to Iran. Surani was also awarded Queen’s University’s most prestigious writing prize, The Helen Richards Campbell Memorial Scholarship to excellence in creative writing. His poetry was published both in Canada and overseas from 2002 to 2008. The Dublin Quarterly chose his poem “Alley Dolle”, citing its “movement” and “music,” as their 2005 poem-of-the year. His poem “Chopping Wood On Ivan’s Farm” won third place in Arc Poetry Magazine’s 2008 Poem of the Year contest.

Surani traveled extensively between 2008 and 2011 in Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Surani’s second poetry collection, Floating Life, was published in spring,

2012. The book’s themes have been characterized as travel, “connections made and left behind, and, above all, the fleeting nature of experience.” In interview, Surani said that Floating Life’s prevailing theme is a divestment of personal power.

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Top Facts about Moez Surani

1. Moez Surani is a Canadian poet and artist.
2. He was born in Tanzania and raised in Canada.
3. Surani has published two poetry collections: Reticent Bodies (2009) and Operations (2016).
4. His work has been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Arabic, and French.
5. Surani has received numerous awards for his writing, including the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and the K.M. Hunter Award.
6. He is also an accomplished visual artist, with exhibitions in Canada and internationally.
7. Surani’s poetry often explores themes of identity, memory, and language.
8. He holds degrees from York University and the University of Toronto.
9. In addition to his creative work, Surani works as a freelance writer and editor.
10. He currently resides in Toronto, Ontario with his family.