Recent interviews
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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 ...
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An Interview with Peter Midgley Sharon Caseburg: What brought you to Canada? What were your reasons for staying? Peter Midgley: I came to do a PhD at the U of A and got offered a job right after I finished. And well, here I am, and I guess now Edmonton is home. SC: After all this time in Canada, do you still get homesick for South Africa? PM: I do miss South Africa, but I miss the country of my birth, Namibia, too. I miss ...
New poetry
- Alterations of Every Description Promises the sign over a tailor’s shop / but presumably sex changes, metamorphoses, translations & -figurations / ...
- Object #6 the centre. the image that holds. her figure. / where she is across ...
- On leaving, my lover unbraids soft neck garlic, detangles / the hairs with amateur cook precision to avoid / / flakes, crumbles. ...
- Ruby Roses, Kiss Goodbye You, who saved me from hardening, / let me not harden now / / but walk into the world, disarmed / yet ...
- Herschel Island In my dream I am walking / on the edge / of the world. ...
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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