Recent interviews
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An Interview with Peter Midgley
Interviewed by Sharon Caseburg
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
Interviewed by Steve Locke
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
Interviewed by Tim Bowling
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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Essays and reviews
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Introduction
by Oana Avasilichioaei
Translation is one way that cultures, languages, ideas formed through those languages, historical and social specificities are able to cross borders. This impact of the foreign others is often stopped at the Canadian border because translations of foreign works are hardly encouraged or supported. In an attempt to make such ...
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Review: Indigena Awry by Annharte
Reviewed by Michael Minor
Perhaps too much has been said about how there are more people writing poetry than reading it in Canada. In the spirit of Indigena Awry’s praxis-based approach to the problems it tackles head on, let me propose a solution: read this book. “But, there are so ...
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Introduction
by Andy Quan
It's easy to picture a poet, marginalized by race, sexuality or another marker of difference, battling against the dominant culture, fighting their way in from the margins to the mainstream, and perhaps shouting to be heard.
My experience was somewhat the opposite. I found a welcome mat and was rather hard to shut up. I ...
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