Bladed Edge Between

Bladed Edge Between navigates intersections of memory, sound, and survival. This work unfolds as a sonic archive of longing, belonging, and becoming. Anchored in the sacredness of place, diasporic grief, and mystical remembrance, the poems move through ecological resonance, spiritual inheritance, and intergenerational healing. This expansive, multilingual collection uses the structure of Indian classical music as a formal and emotional scaffolding-ascending (Arohi), descending (Avroh), breaking open (Jhala), collapsing into silence (Khali). Each section becomes a note, a blade, a wound, and a prayer. Ruby Singh gifts us a speculative map through which the past sings into the future, always with us, all ways a part of us.

About the Author :
Ruby Singh is an award-winning poet, interdisciplinary artist, and educator based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh Nations (Vancouver, BC). His creative practice moves between poetry, music, photography, and film, weaving mythos, ecology, justice, and fantasy into vivid, boundary-crossing works.Celebrated for his innovative voice, Singh has been honored with a Lieutenant Governor's Jubilee Award for excellence in Art and Music, multiple Jessie and Leo award nominations, a Juno nomination, and WCMA awards for both Global Music Artist and Electronic/Dance Artist of the Year. His expansive projects - from the a cappella constellation Vox.Infold to the sufi hip hop of Jhalaak - echo the spirit of his book of poems Bladed Edge Between: forging portals between worlds and singing through the thresholds of transformation. Singh believes in art's ability to reimagine futures, to repurpose aesthetic freedoms toward civil and environmental justice.

Review :
"Nothing is free of ghosts," writes acclaimed musician-poet Ruby Singh in Bladed Edge Between, a soulful and melodic collection that invites readers to listen, with their hearts blown wide open, to the ways the past offers in one breath "the combustion of broken dreams and loss" and in the next a "sanctuary" in which the "divine is glowing." Marked by a yearning for one's ancestral roots in the Punjab, as well as a deep reverence for the foremothers whose protective prayers sing through time, these poems guide us, no matter what our respective origin story is, closer to the healing power of remembering, of music, of language. -Faisal Mohyuddin, author of Elsewhere: An Elegy and The Displaced Children of Displaced Children Ruby Singh's poems navigate the loss and thrash of mortality, [where] winged forms lift, and the mother tongue finds a vessel. Attuned to cellular vibration, the rhythm of snowflakes, and the sonics of constellations, Bladed Edge Between is illuminated by lamplight and dances in the celestial glow. Beautiful. -Cecily Nicholson, author of Harrowings and Crowd Source and recipient of Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry Bladed Edge Between is a linguistic, lyrical, literary, and spiritual experience of stories "risen from iridescent scales" that forge a narrative mosaic of grace. These poems reshape boundaries of form, genre, and culture in an almost mythical quest for creative fusion and spiritual mastery. Ruby Singh's book is a poetic collection of wonder, of revelation, a transcendental spell of prophetic magic, a fully grown work of art. He has "found the divine" here. -Arthur Flowers, novelist, essayist, performance poet, author of Another Good Loving Blues