Apr 25, 2018
Born in Reykjavik in 1962, Sjón is a celebrated Icelandic novelist. He won the Nordic Council's Literary Prize for his novel 'The Blue Fox' (the Nordic countries' equivalent of the Man Booker Prize) and the novel 'From The Mouth Of The Whale' was shortlisted for both the IMPAC Award and the Independent Foreign...
Apr 17, 2018
Alice Notley is an American poet whose work has influenced generations of poets; she is considered a pioneering voice on topics such as motherhood, feminism, disobedience and domestic life.
Notley has experimented widely with poetic form and has written a book of criticism, a play, and a biography. She has also...
Apr 9, 2018
Eli MacLaren is an Assistant Professor of English at McGill
University in Montreal. Subjects taught include Canadian poetry and
fiction; First Nations writers; bibliography and the history of the
book. We met to discuss an article he wrote for Canadian Poetry
entitled " ‘Significant Little Offerings’: The Origin...
Apr 2, 2018
Jason
Guriel is a poet and critic whose work has appeared in such
publications as Poetry,
Slate, Reader's
Digest,
The
Walrus,
Parnassus, Canadian Notes
& Queries,
The New
Criterion, and
PN
Review. His poetry has
been anthologized in The
Best Canadian Poetry in English, and in 2007, he was the first Canadian to
receive...