Recent interviews
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An Interview with Ós Pressan Clarise Foster: Starting a publishing venture in Canada these days is a pretty ambitious venture — but it seems that the publishing industry for books in Iceland is quite robust, so I am wondering at what point during the workshop did the discussion of writing turn to one of publishing and how did that discussion turn into plans to create your own publishing house? Ós Pressan: You’ve caught us at a great ...
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alternative fluency Clarise Foster: How does a piece of poetry/art take root for you creatively? And how might you begin to work on a piece, does it most often begin as/with text? a rawlings: Relationship. With land, self, friend, language. I’ve been running in counter-clockwise circles on North Atlantic foreshores. To make contact with. To land as in to arrive as in to touch. Down. Deeper, farther, under. To under-stand. ...
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An Interview with Michael Prior Hannah Green: Jen Sookfong Lee recently wrote a powerful essay* about the state of CanLit. She writes that “CanLit has always been heavily weighted to a certain kind of author writing a certain kind of narrative” and “CanLit has never been about the diversity of voices.” Your work doesn’t fit into the “certain type of narrative” Sookfong Lee describes as being popular in CanLit, and your voice is a diverse ...
New poetry
- Blood in a Place I Could Not Yet Understand It was harder to say no back when Paul / threatened to sue me after I told him / I couldn’t play GI Joe anymore ...
- Semiotic Signs Approaching Winnipeg: General Sign Over Downtown (Now Outside It). The hammer of judgement on the nails of practicality / evokes the tendency to miss the point of actuality / ...
- untethered is it my blood that makes me wander? / the diaspora of my soul scattered / over many lands / the ...
- The day dawns on and undoes us The wet sand and sweat that mortared / our hands since dusk scorched / and mouldered to dust. Still / / ...
- Gimli/Kanada / Icelander, 6 ½ fet, 250 lbs / (höfuðið samsvarandi / tjúguskegg (rauðlitt) / undan fornmanninum / ESK / ...
Essays and reviews
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Review: Get Me Out of Here by Sachiko Murakami Airports, like subway stations and bus exchanges, have their unique characters and movements, small, intrusive rituals, and a single equalizing feature: everyone is in transit. Around the world, one airport is much like another — the people within it caught ...
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Review: Once in Blockadia by Stephen Collis Once in Blockadia is Stephen Collis’s sixth solo full-length book of poems (he also collaborated with Jordan Scott for 2013’s DECOMP). It comprises five titled suites, two of which are a 12-page meditative poem (“Home at Gasmere”) and an even longer serial ...
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Review: The Significance of Moths by Shirley Camia Toronto poet Shirley Camia maps the immigrant experience through lyric minimalism and vivid imagery in her second collection, The Significance of Moths. Divided into six sections — “In the Palm of an Evening,” “The Portrait Unravelling,” “Humbled Knowing,” “A ...
