Fourth Year Honourable Mention: These Hands Make Music Too

WRIT 4005, Travel Writing & The Professional Writer. CD: kerry doyle

Abstract

Travel literature must render the reader able to imagine a place they have never been; to sample, if only in their heads, all the locale has to offer the senses and the intellect. Sun Hussein’s beautifully written survey of Toronto’s underground music scene—where the author “can feel seen” – is a vivid, pulsating, visceral piece of writing. It knows to acknowledge who was here before, and on whose land we reside. It knows creativity is to be found in comic book shops, poetry jazz, deep caves and dance clubs. And it knows that it is on the margins that the real, the inspirational and the moving (literally and figuratively) are to be found.

These are our places, Toronto places. Places where we can find and express our own Selves, no matter what their beautiful forms. “These Hands Make Music Too” reminds us that the authentic experience can be found near to home, if you know where to look.