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Q&A with Barbara Gowdy

Rose Morris: Your novel Little Sister is about a woman who can leave her body behind and inhabit the body of another person. Is writing a form of leaving your […]

Q&A with Clea Roberts

Clea Roberts lives just outside of Whitehorse in the Yukon. Her second collection of poetry, Auguries, was published this spring by Brick Books. Her debut collection, Here is Where We […]

Q&A with Steven Heighton

Steven Heighton’s latest collection of poems “the Waking Comes late” is highly evolved work from a writer who “in the early evening of a life”, is a master of form […]

Q&A with Carla Funk

On Fire, the Afterlife, and Breaking the Line: an Interview with Poet Carla Funk By Leah Callen I talked to Carla Funk, former Poet Laureate of Victoria, about her latest […]

Q&A with Adrienne Gruber

Unabashedly Human: a conversation with poet, Adrienne Gruber Interviewed by Emily McIvor Buoyancy Control (Book Thug) is Adrienne Gruber’s second full length book of poems. This work is raw, sharp and visceral. […]

Q&A with Jan Zwicky

Jan Zwicky has published nine collections of poetry, including Songs for Relinquishing the Earth and Forge. Her latest collection The Long Walk forthcoming from University of Regina Press will be pre-released specially for her reading […]

Q&A With Louise Halfe

Louise Halfe has published 4 books of poetry with Coteau Press. Miranda Pearson spoke with Louise about her latest collection Burning in this Midnight Dream. MP: In your book Burning in the Midnight Dream […]

Q&A with Betsy Warland

Betsy Warland has published 12 books of poetry, creative nonfiction, and lyric prose, including her best-selling 2010 book of essays on writing, Breathing the Page—Reading the Act of Writing. Nancy […]

Q&A with Kevin A. Couture

Kevin A. Couture grew up in a small B.C. mining town and has spent the last decade waking before dawn to write. The stories in his debut collection, Lost Animal […]

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