The City That Is Leaving Forever is a unique twentyfirstcentury time capsule an instantmessage exchange between Kashmir and British Columbia spanning more than five years in the lives of two Muslim Kashmiri women poets. In 2016 as Indias military carries out extrajudicial killings and imposes a lengthy curfew in Srinagar Kurd is forced to cancel her family trip to Kashmir. Syed and Kurd confide in each other as the weeks and months pass working through drafts of new poems reading each others