Irina Moga

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IrinaMoga

Writer - poetry and short stories.

I visited Kyoto and it changed me.


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Irina Moga is the author of six poetry collections and a member of The Writers' Union of Canada and The League of Canadian Poets.
Her book "Variations sans palais" (Éditions L'Harmattan, Paris) won the international literary prize "Dina Sahyouni" (France) in 2022.
"Quantum," her latest poetry book, was released by DarkWinter Press in 2025.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Poetry, fiction and visual arts
Poetry readings and workshops
Links
Works
Works 1
Quantum

Quantum is a collection of poems meant to anchor readers in light-heartedness and serenity. One of the themes in the book is that poetry can be perceived as a field of creative energy, whose quanta surround us and in which we can immerse ourselves via the mediating power of daydreaming. Poetry is the deconstruction of reality and its recompilation into an alternate paradigm, guided by intuition, aesthetics, and the quantum mechanics of one’s own imagination. In Quantum, the author moves us through layers of sensorial cues and a discourse whose ultimate goal is healing - an everyday catharsis for life’s tough moments, held in balance by the power of words.

Works 2
Variations sans palais

Comment peut-on accéder, par l'entremise des moments de silence, d'ironie et d'humour à une redécouverte de soi-même et des repères qui nous hantent ? Comment serait-il possible de s'adapter à un Nouveau Monde, tout en acceptant l'abandon d'un vieux monde, qu'on chérit encore ? Mais c'est au lecteur de décider, finalement, si cette archéologie des mots, ce va-et-vient entre le passé et le présent est une variation ou bien le miroir caché d'un imprévisible palais.
Prix littéraire Dina Sahyouni (2022)

Read my poem "Moon Jar" in issue 177 of The New Quarterly: https://tnq.ca/story/moon-jar/

This world—
call it an image
caught in a mirror—
real it is not,
not unreal either.
Minamoto Sanetomo (1192-1219)