This week’s new videos
Week 7: Love, Grief, and Moral Outrage
Mar 5, 2014
This video is part of "Poets on Record," an ongoing series of video interviews conducted by Contemporary Verse 2.
Recent interviews
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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
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An Interview with RC Weslowski
In the realm of slam poetry, few have as long a resumé as Randy Jacobs, a.k.a. RC Weslowski. As a member of the Vancouver Poetry Slam community since its early days in the late ’90s, Weslowski has not only been integral to the longevity of Canada’s oldest poetry slam community, but he has also won over communities across the nation. Representing Vancouver seven times at national competitions, he
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An Interview with Carmine Starnino
Tim Bowling: You set out early on, back in the mid-’90s, to be a poet and a critic. You’ve maintained a place in both worlds when many poets opt out of the critical side of things. Have you been pleased with the way you’ve maintained that balance?
Carmine Starnino: For the most part, yes. But I can’t say that I’ve had any choice in the matter. I have no opt-out button when it comes to writing
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New poetry
- Laying Hands I learned to love your devil’s touch, / Bruised my knees to match my skin, / It was safety felt within your ...
- the camp at musina she sat for two days, waiting / for officials to acknowledge her. / reporters found her first, / told her story ...
- How Is It I Came to Be Summed Up As I Am Now How is it I came to be summed up as I am now? / Did the carbon in me pirouette through / cedar, a sleek fish, ...
- Down to You I trampled those days, a lion, believed / in myself with a ferocity that has since / never been the same. They ...
- It begins It begins with betrayal / In not being able to express / The crushed grape in your chest / The taste of morgue ...
Essays and reviews
- Review: Indigena Awry by Annharte ...
- Introduction ...
- Rathven (Part 2 of “Homestead: Venturing into the Poetics of Place”) The imagination of going home so frequently means going ‘back’ in both space and time. Back to the old familiar things, to the way things used to be… the truth is that you can never simply ‘go back,’ to home or to anywhere else. When you get ‘there’ the place will have moved on just as you yourself will have changed. ...
