He is the author of the poetry collections Reticent Bodies and Floating Life,[1] and the booklength poem عملية Operación Opération Operation 行动 Операция.
[11][12] Poet and critic Jacob McArthur Mooney stated that the book is a return to the Canadian romantic mode of Leonard Cohen and Irving Layton.
In 2008, Surani received a Chalmers Arts Fellowship to visit his ancestral homelands, India and East Africa.
[7][15] That award's jury citation states that the poem "dramatizes the tension between the world of the collective myth and poetic imagination on the one hand and individual experience and empirical decision on the other.
This poem collects together the names of military operations by 192 UN-member countries from the founding of the United Nations to the present.