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Author: Rob Taylor

The Lifelong Process of Knowing Our Minds Can Be Beautiful: An Interview with Amber Dawn

The Lifelong Process of Knowing Our Minds Ca...

February 18, 2026

The two authors talk about perverting pain, literary influences, and cultivating one’s awareness of body and mind.Go to full post …read more

An Utterance Overhears Itself and Doubles Back: An Interview with Joseph Kidney

An Utterance Overhears Itself and Doubles Ba...

January 28, 2026

The two poets talk about perceptions of time, playing with the units of language, and things beyond oneself.Go to full post …read more

Candour, Craft, and Community: Seven BC Poets on the Writers They Love

Candour, Craft, and Community: Seven BC Poet...

May 23, 2025

We asked seven writers about a BC poet who has influenced or inspired them.Go to full post …read more

Words Being Read Like Birds: An Interview with Cecily Nicholson

Words Being Read Like Birds: An Interview wi...

April 30, 2025

The poets talk about attending to local restoration efforts in art, collectivity, and the sonic and semantic harmonies in poetry. Go to full post …read more

The Part of the Brain that Silently Slips Forward: An Interview with Pamela Porter

The Part of the Brain that Silently Slips Fo...

April 22, 2025

The author of Between the Bell Struck and the Silence talks about death as transition not end, birding, and writing as an act of faith.Go to full post …read more

An Ancestor-in-Training: An Interview with Pauline Le Bel

An Ancestor-in-Training: An Interview with P...

April 7, 2025

Le Bel and Taylor talk about reframing death as an active choice, the wisdom of “old crones,” and the ubiquitousness of music.Go to full post …read more

That Open Space Was All I Needed: An Interview with Estlin McPhee

That Open Space Was All I Needed: An Intervi...

April 2, 2025

The two poets talk about a grandmother’s love, the Bible and Harry Potter, and when not to give up on your projects. Go to full post …read more

Standing Outside the Self: An Interview with Hamish Ballantyne

Standing Outside the Self: An Interview with...

March 25, 2025

The poets talk about Spanish baroque writing, mushroom picking, and the sonic demands of poetry.Go to full post …read more

Returning Through Myself: An Interview with Svetlana Ischenko

Returning Through Myself: An Interview with ...

February 25, 2025

The author of Nucleus talks about the challenges of form, cultural resistance, and poetry as history.Go to full post …read more

Being Sentient Isn’t For the Faint of Heart: An Interview with Rhea Tregebov

Being Sentient Isn’t For the Faint of Hear...

January 22, 2025

The author of “Talking to Strangers” talks about unified field theory, poetry forms, and keeping the ego in check.Go to full post …read more

Seven BC Poets on the Writers that Inspire Them

Seven BC Poets on the Writers that Inspire T...

May 1, 2024

Rob Taylor speaks with our featured National Poetry Month poets about a BC poet who influenced and inspired them.Go to full post …read more

Amphibious Poetics: An Interview with Leanne Dunic

Amphibious Poetics: An Interview with Leanne...

April 24, 2024

Poets Leanne Dunic and Rob Taylor talk about genre-crossing art, mask wearing, and desire and restraint.Go to full post …read more


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