Category: Interviews

Essayist, novelist, voiceover actor, publisher, and comedian, Charles Demers is Vancouver’s own Swiss Army Writer. Some of Demers’ credits include appearances on CBC’s The Debaters, a comedy album called Fatherland, a book of essays called The Horrors: An A to Z Go to full post …read more

Growing up in Cranbrook, the Fundamentalist Mormons of Bountiful were a well-known, if somewhat enigmatic, neighbour. We would often see them around, my friends and I, but of course we would never make an effort to try and speak to them. Go to full post …read more

By Bill Arnott 

Anticipating fame and wealth, Captain John Voss set out from Victoria, BC, in 1901, seeking to claim the world record for the smallest vessel ever to circumnavigate the globe. For the journey, he procured an authentic dugout cedar Go to full post …read more

“I love how poetry can often blaze a more direct path to emotional truth than prose.”Go to full post …read more

“In this interesting time of isolation, I think that what we all need are reminders of how deeply and intrinsically connected we are to each other.”Go to full post …read more

“I want to better understand how humans can be part of the natural world, rather than constantly butting our heads and machines against it.”Go to full post …read more

“I guess the dream of poetry is that it catches a reader and that reader’s pulse slows a bit”Go to full post …read more

“Every poem is an exercise in saying something true”Go to full post …read more

The following interview is part four of a nine-part series of conversations with BC poets about their new poetry collections. New interviews will be posted everyone Tuesday and Thursday throughout April for National Poetry Month 2020. All interviews were conducted by Go to full post …read more

“A musician friend told me her jazz trio leader said to them, ‘Take it to the left.’ That’s kind of what I learned from the ghazal and what I’d like to sneak into my poems.”Go to full post …read more

“Sometimes I think poetry can be described as a small machine for creating failure. Can a poet ever get it right?”Go to full post …read more

“I realized a long time ago that I live in this in-between place and what I do with my art has to reflect that.” Go to full post …read more