Recent interviews
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Trajectory & Trace: An Interview with Sina Queyras Tanis MacDonald: I saw on Facebook that the editor of Poetry, Don Share, posted a photo of you at the podium in Chicago, where you had gone to give the inaugural reading at the 24th annual International Virginia Woolf Conference in June of this year. It was the caption above the photo that caught my eye: “I’m happy to answer questions, interrogation, accusations…” Did you say this and what was ...
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An Interview with Molly Peacock Jason Guriel: Do you read much contemporary poetry these days? Who are some of your favourite younger poets? Molly Peacock: I do, indeed. Here’s a random list of some younger or emerging poets who always interest me: from the U.S.: Rebecca Wolff, Amber Flora Thomas, Jonathan Weinert, Alessandra Lynch, Richard Newman, Andrea Carter Brown, and Amy Clark. In Canada: Sonnet L’Abbe, Jake Mooney, ...
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An Interview with Souvankham Thammavongsa QM: You’ve published three books in almost ten years, starting with your first, Small Arguments. What are you doing when you’re not writing poetry? ST: Ten years is a long time to be caring about something, to be caring about doing something, isn’t it? In other fields, you’d have a lot of money by now. I wrote and finished Small Arguments while I was an undergraduate at the University of ...
New poetry
- Elegy for My Father’s Labour Hardhat ∴ life preserver / Wrench ≈ bouquet / Number of days present < early morning disappearances / Length of ...
- Mind Control A woman in pain will forget / to be kind, or clean. She will probe / the folds and ripples of her / cerebrum, ...
- Tunnel requires sweat. / We come out sluggish as slippers. / / It takes effort to scrape the ice off the windshield ...
- Spin Cycle, Cowley Some desert John, locust-boned, / leans in the doorway, / / chamber-eyed laundrette / behind, chewing over ...
- Alterations of Every Description Promises the sign over a tailor’s shop / but presumably sex changes, metamorphoses, translations & -figurations / ...
Essays and reviews
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Review: Here Come the Warm Jets by Alli Warren I’ve heard that in a forest fire the Douglas fir sends out streams of flammable sap, ensuring the surrounding trees will burn and the nearly fireproof fir will have room to reproduce. The title of San Franciso Bay Area poet Alli Warren’s collection, Here Come ...
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Review: Broom Broom by Brecken Hancock What exists inside the mother? asks the narrator. The mother who once carried the daughter is now the carrier of an illness and the daughter fears discovering the mother’s disorder inside her. The deeply discomforting phrase “Mother’s meat” will take on ...
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Formally Speaking: In the Pen with Pigheaded Souls
My goal in composing these pieces has been to honour gut reactions, however acidic, and to be entertaining about it. I have tried to assume that readers of poetry are smart grown-ups with overscheduled lives, who might appreciate a vigorous opinion. I haven’t felt especially hemmed in by the Canadian border; I have
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