Recent interviews
- An Interview with Sue Goyette Hannah Green: It sounds like myth and poetry are perhaps more closely related than I had thought. They certainly do perform in the same way—as a means of understanding. You mention you are inspired to create new myths. I find that so interesting! Would you like to share what myths you have created and what the impact has been? Sue Goyette: I think one of the ways poetry is so vital and, by ...
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In Conversation with Ray Hsu: A Collaborative discourse Clarise Foster: Do you think that part of the problem with publishing a collaboration like the Nepotists might be that within writing and publishing circles, there seems to be an understanding of collaboration as two or more people who bring their talents and skills together to create a project. Whereas with a collaborative work like yours, there is an understanding of project as the constraint ...
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Plenitude: Your Queer Literary Magazine: An Interview with Andrea Routley and Matthew Walsh Clarise Foster: What was the original vision for the magazine? The first issue of Plenitude, I believe, was launched in 2012? It publishes biannually and so it would now be into its third year. How is it going? Have your initial expectations for Plenitude changed in that time? If so, how? Andrea Routley: I really didn’t know what to expect when I began. In the beginning, I did not want to offer ...
New poetry
- Abandoned Someone tore the hands off a big round clock, familiar / as a classroom clock & abandoned it in the weeds / ...
- Land then Water The cheque refuses to be cashed without being thanked first. / One cow has skidded down the meadow and tipped over. ...
- Barometric Pressure Always start with poems about places / that sing themselves as if they were a whir / of mid-august heat bugs. ...
- Herons on the Ice Having had their summer, swum, fished and plunged / deeply in their chosen waters, these old birds / have woken ...
- New Year’s Eve fireworks at the Forks River and bridge / and things that hover over: / smoke, / helicopter, / ...
Essays and reviews
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Review: Bird Beast and Lover by Arthur Adamson A Summer Man Light and contrast of light is the distinctive, stylistic feature of Bird Beast and Lover by Arthur Adamson. As with every journey of initiation, Adamson’s is configured as a transition between two places, a transfiguration, a re-birth or simply ...
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Review: But for Now by Gordon Johnston The late, and beloved, poet Margaret Avison writes, “Poetry is always in / unfamiliar territory” (Avison 27). I hope you can forgive me for opening a review of Gordon Johnston’s recent book of poetry, But for Now, with this quotation from another poet. I do ...
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Review: The Book of Festus by John Wall Barger Web-only content Festus, having forgot, woke, citizen in the City of himself. Festus was nothing, was shell, animalcule, glacial drift. Ages on ages roll’d over Festus. Festus uncurl’d to ...
