“Fool that I was, for many years, I tried to reject any notion of an artistic life,” says poet Garry Thomas Morse. “For me, a poet is not just someone who pens pretty lines or teaches theory or hangs out with...
Read MoreWhen local poet Michael Reynolds reads at the 2009 Whitehorse Poetry Festival, he’ll join a closely connected group of guests that includes Michael Ondaatje, Don McKay, CD Wright, Adam Sol and Erin Mouré.”It’s...
Read MoreMontreal poet and essayist Erin Mouré is an Albertan with roots in Galicia, Spain. “I think in three languages all at once and every day,” she said: Galician, her father’s language, French and English.Mouré,...
Read MoreNight Work: The Sawchuk Poems, opens with the autopsy report of hockey great Terry Sawchuk.It ends with a photo of his face, a jigsaw of quick stitches.In between, author Randall Maggs creates a biography of poems that takes...
Read MoreRhea Tregebov has loved poetry from an early age.”It wasn’t until university that I realized what a central place it would take in my life,” she admits.The multi-disciplinary writer and assistant professor of...
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