Poet Spotlight: Cassandra Blanchard
Event Mags • April 8It’s poetry month! Cassandra Blanchard is one excited debut poet. Her new book, Fresh Pack of Smokes will launch on April 24th in Vancouver (and...
The Forbidden Purple City: Interview with Philip Huynh
Event Mags • March 5In The Forbidden Purple City, (Goose Lane Editions, 2019) debut author Philip Huynh dives headfirst into the Vietnamese diaspora. In these...
Growing Room and the Future of CanLit: Hannah Macready interviews Chelene Knight
Event Mags • February 12Chelene Knight is the author of the poetry collection Braided Skin and the memoir Dear Current Occupant, winner of the 2018 Vancouver Book...
The Passport Filled with Shrapnel: Rob Taylor interviews Dominique Bernier-Cormier
Event Mags • December 6Two Excerpts from Correspondent Early morning, August 12. Hydrogen peroxide leaks from an I-15 torpedo aboard the Kursk. Liquid falls, drop by...
Russell Thornton and Phoebe Wang in Conversation–An Excerpt from What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation
Event Mags • November 13The following is an excerpt from What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation, which will be published by Nightwood Editions in late...
Isn’t every story or poem about love in one way or another?: Stephanie Sirois Interviews Patricia Young
Event Mags • November 2Amateurs at Love explores love: what love means, the different ways one can hurt or heal, love between couples, love between children, unrequited...
An Entire Page of Words About One Damn Thing: Rob Taylor interviews Curtis Leblanc
Event Mags • September 29Sonnet for the Driveways of Our Childish Years All the tennis balls that our Gretzky curves couldn't guide past the taut rubber screen of a...
To Boldly Poem: An Interview with Jenna Lyn Albert
Event Mags • September 20Fearless, precise and bold, Bec & Call is the debut collection from Acadian poet Jenna Lyn Albert. Rife with colloquialisms, irony and a healthy dose...
Slam Dancing: Jillian Christmas Interviews mitcholos touchie
Event Mags • April 18Łapḥsp̓at̓unakʔi Łim̓aqsti AKA mitcholos touchie is an indigenous Spoken Word artist from Hitacu, Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ x Nuučaan̓uɫ...
A Gift to Myself: Rob Taylor interviews Mallory Tater
Event Mags • March 27Loss is Loss I used to tell Margaret I hated her because she was pretty. That kind of hate makes people listen. We wrote poetry on ailing computers...
