The Nature of Poetry: An Interview with Ian LeTourneau
Metadata from a Changing Climate considers themes of nature, change, and connection.
Metadata from a Changing Climate considers themes of nature, change, and connection.
Striving to get ahead in a world of scams, Hamid is caught in the fervour surrounding a charismatic social-media imam with questionable intentions.
Showcasing African Gothic at its finest, The Creation of Half-Broken People is the extraordinary tale of a nameless woman plagued by visions.
Ted Barris, Canadian writer, journalist, professor, and broadcaster is the author of twenty-two books, many of which focus on Canada’s military history.
The poems are fully collaborative. Any visuals are structured around poems that we’ve authored together in such a way that we try to totally erase which of us has written any given part.
This conversation took place on December 29th, 2024. It has been lightly edited for clarity and to the interviewee’s satisfaction.
This Zoom interview was recorded on February 1st, 2025. The questions and responses are a combination of Zoom interview content and email correspondence.
Although an in person, recorded interview did take place in London, Ontario Between Saad and me, I effortlessly deleted the entire thing from my computer, my Zoom account, and existence. This interview is therefore made up entirely of Saad’s written reply.
Lucy and Michael are very talented artists and giving artists, each in their own right. As a couple, they are truly dynamic. They complement each other, as well as the world they live in.
Cassidy McFadzean’s latest book, Crying Dress (House of Anansi), is a playful and provocative collection of poetry.
S A R A H B U R G O Y N E is an experimental poet. Her second collection, Because the Sun, which thinks with and against Camus’ extensive notebooks and the iconic outlaw film Thelma & Louise, was published with Coach House Books in April 2021.
The second of two parts, this conversation took place online between Hamilton and Montréal on November 6th, 2023 on the occasion of the publication of The Book of Benjamin (Palimpsest Press, 2023). It has been edited for clarity.
With World Poetry Month (April) beating a path to our door once more, I wanted to engage in a dialogue with Tawahum Bige about all things poetry and the universe with someone who has a screaming new book baby entering this cruel world quite soon.
John Payton Foden is a Toronto-based writer. His novel Magenta is a harrowing journey into war-torn Sarajevo, and into the blackest reaches of the human condition. The novel follows a journalist, Silva, as she and her team make their way deep into a city under siege, in order to recover the body of Thierry, an award-winning filmmaker who has been killed there.
Ian Colford’s short fiction has appeared in Event, Grain, Riddle Fence, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead and other literary publications. His previous books are Evidence, The Crimes of Hector Tomás, Perfect World and A Dark House and Other Stories. His work has been shortlisted for the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Relit Award, the Journey Prize, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. He lives in Halifax.