Category: Interviews

“Every poem is an exercise in saying something true”Go to full post …read more

The following interview is part four of a nine-part series of conversations with BC poets about their new poetry collections. New interviews will be posted everyone Tuesday and Thursday throughout April for National Poetry Month 2020. All interviews were conducted by Go to full post …read more

“A musician friend told me her jazz trio leader said to them, ‘Take it to the left.’ That’s kind of what I learned from the ghazal and what I’d like to sneak into my poems.”Go to full post …read more

“Sometimes I think poetry can be described as a small machine for creating failure. Can a poet ever get it right?”Go to full post …read more

“I realized a long time ago that I live in this in-between place and what I do with my art has to reflect that.” Go to full post …read more

This past December, the brick-and-mortar location of Iron Dog Books opened for business. We caught up with Hilary to visit the space and hear about this new chapter.Go to full post …read more

Through interviews and archival access, Robert D. Watt gathers the story of each piece, often in Point’s own words, to illustrate the vital role she has played in revealing and re-establishing the “Salish footprint” in the Pacific Northwest. Go to full post …read more

“Maybe the despair is countered with humour, or joy. I think that for me is closer to the experience of things.”Go to full post …read more

Like some of the fairy tale tellers before me, I’m looking to see what is hidden in the stories that I can bring out and offer in our present moment.Go to full post …read more

“Bounce House began contemplating the connection between my kid standing on a basketball, not believing she was going to fall off it, and Flat Earthers.”Go to full post …read more

“I have always been drawn to prose poems that channel a stream-of-consciousness. I love how it feels like you’re peeking into the mind of the poet or writer.”Go to full post …read more

“I believe the sciences and the arts must work together, speak to each other. I hope my poems are literal representation of that belief.”Go to full post …read more