Nasreen Pejvack

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Launches and Reading Events - Oct 2015 to Present

Reading in Harburg, Germany: Gymnasium Hittfeld

** - My New Book: A Call to Unite is a collection of essays that I have been working on for about 10 years. It discusses our troubled politics, economy, environmental degradation and, above all, war and displacement. Do You Care Enough for the world we are leaving for our grandchildren?

If you are concerned and frustrated with climate change, wars, and economic injustices that are clearly evident all over the world, Luyten’s Star offers a vision for creating a society free from the financial coercions and stresses that are at the root of these problems.

My historical novel Amity provides a window into the effects of war on individuals and communities, and for short stories and essays discussing specific issues and concerns in this world, check out Paradise of the Downcasts.

For a sensitive exploration of all these ideas and more in verse, go to my book of poems, Waiting.

Amity provides a window to the wreckage caused by wars—the destruction and displacement that leave pain and life-long psychological disorders, here specifically within the contexts of Yugoslavia’s dissolution and Iran’s revolution.

Payvand, an Iranian refugee and activist, still plagued with nightmares, meets Ragusa, a Yugoslavian refugee whose pockets are loaded with stones as she prepares to walk into the water and end her life, a life that has become intolerable since the loss of those most dear to her……..

What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren?

Will it be the same spectacle of continued war-mongering, slavery and exploitation that has been the main feature of history to this point? Even today, economic systems are designed to maximize resource and labour extraction and minimize benefits to workers and communities, especially in the Global South.

Will we survive the climate crisis that is upon us now? How do we maintain and restore trust in well-researched sciences that warn us about our eco-destructive activities, and provide us with safe medical defenses against myriad diseases?

We can create a better world if we learn from our past, but to do that we must know our past. As revisionist forces attempt to eliminate our moral insights and understandings about what the powerful have inflicted on societies around the globe, it is more important than ever to chronicle those deeds.

What about our interpersonal relationships? How do we craft non-competitive societies that don’t appeal to envy or require exploitative, corrupt and manipulative behaviour to function? We always do best when lean towards inclusive models and away from fearing or using others.

Over a series of essays and poems, join Nasreen Pejvack in discussing these issues, and considering how we can all work together for a better world. It is a Call to Unite; a challenge to focus our collective energies toward saving our humanity and our planet.

A Call to Unite

Luyten's Star - A Sci-Fi Novel

For centuries wars have been following us throughout our history: war for territory, war for plunder, war for glory.
Since the industrial revolution, we have seen war for resources and war for economic control. The tyrannies of greed and materialism continue to this day.
In every theatre of aggression, it is the women -- mothers, wives, and daughters -- who are suffering the most.
Across the planet, being a woman lead to the harshest consequences, as with each conquest, women, land, food and horses were equally divided among victorious soldiers.
And with men still ruling this planet today, we find ourselves facing ever increasing problems with the degradations of our climate and ecosystems. But still those in power move ahead with exploitation and profiteering.
Understanding that we can do better, I have envisioned a world that operates much differently. A planet managed by women without the need of money or financial abuses. Explore the possibilities of living free from the influences of power and wealth disparities.

Paradise of the Downcasts

A Collection of Short Tales & Essays

For over thirty years I have experienced all kinds of beautiful interactions with people of all walks of life in this wonderful paradise, Canada. Concurrently, I have heard of and seen injustices that I never expected to witness here in this beautiful country that never really incited any international war. It’s a nation which has a good social safety system, yet one where so many people must turn to food banks regularly. Many have problems with paying for medications, and some die as a result. There are those who cannot attend or complete university because of inadequate support. And so here, the cruel cycles of poverty keep many excluded, just as in many other parts of our planet. To ponder these problems, I present herein a series of independent short tales.

Waiting

A Collection of Poems

This collection of poems reflects my life’s learning and experiences from the time I was old enough to know my surroundings; old enough to understand and painfully observe indifferent people and their competitive, egotistically greedy nature. This disposition leads us astray, for instance into pretending uncertainty about climate change, as if scientists haven’t confirmed the effects of pumping greenhouse gases and other chemicals into our air, land and water.