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Poetry Muse: Michael Fraser – The Day Breakers
Today on Poetry Muse we are joined by Michael Fraser, author of The Day-Breakers (Biblioasis). He shares his night owl creative writing process, how lucky he was having James Deahl as his sagacious poetic guru, and a very detailed list of advice to aspiring poets.
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Poetry Muse:Heather Nolan + Land of the Rock: Talamh an Carraig
This week on Poetry Muse we are joined by Heather Nolan, author of Land of the Rock: Talamh an Carraig (Breakwater Books). Heather shares a list of poetry collections she admires, her advice to aspiring poets, and how she began writing this collection while travelling in Ireland for the first time.
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Poetry Muse: Michael Lithgow + Who We Thought We Were As We Fell
Today on Poetry Muse, we are joined by Michael Lithgow, whose poetry collection Who We Thought We Were As We Fell (Cormorant Books) was released a year ago today! Michael shares how his muse for this collection was Cvetka Lipuš, what his creative writing process is, and shares a poem titled Cradle from this collection.
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Poetry Muse: Khashayar Mohammadi + Me, You, Then Snow
This weekend on Poetry Muse, we are joined by Khashayar Mohammadi, author ofMe, You, Then Snow (Gordon Hill Press). Khashayar shares how they love poetry for its urgency, the best advice they received as a poet, and his personal Spotify playlists he made that pairs well with his book.
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Poetry Muse: Kevin Bushell + Invisible Sea
Today on Poetry Muse, we are joined by Kevin Bushell, author of Invisible Sea (DC Books). He shares in our Q&A session how inspiration comes to him, how he started writing his poetry collection, and a poem from his collection.
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Poetry Muse: Daniel Sarah Karasik + Plenitude
This week on Poetry Muse, we are joined by Daniel Sarah Karasik, whose new poetry collection — Plenitude (Book*hug Press) – released today. Shaped by their experience of grassroots social and political advocacy, these poems are an offering to those engaged in struggles for a better world—and an acknowledgement of the sometimes contradictory meanings of those struggles. Plenitude cartwheels towards a…
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Poetry Muse: Charlie Petch + Why I Was Late
Today on the blog we are joined by Charlie Petch, author of Why I Was Late (Brick Books). Charlie Petch (they/them, he/him) is a disabled/queer/transmasculine multidisciplinary artist who resides in Tkaronto/Toronto. In our Q&A, Charlie shares a poem from his new collection, and shares how for this specific poem, his muse was Mike Tyson.
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Poetry Muse: Leïla Tahir + Trente poèmes pour enfants
This week on Poetry Muse we are joined by Leïla Tahir, the translator of Jawdat Fakhreddine’s poetry bookTrente poèmes pour enfants (Bookland Press). Leïla shares in our Q&A when she started translating poetry, and what her creative process was when she began translating.
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Poetry Muse: Sarah De Leeuw + Lot
In Sarah De Leeuw’s recently released poetry collection Lot (Caitlin Press), she returns to the landscape of her early girlhood to consider the racial complexities of colonial violence in those spaces. In our Q&A discussion, Sarah shares when she was writing this collection she was “driven to surface, to make visible, and to unsettle and write against white-settler-colonial supremacist imaginings…
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Poetry Muse: Aurore Gatwenzi – Gold Pours
Today on Poetry Muse, we are featuring emerging poet Aurore Gatwenzi’s debut poetry collection —Gold Pours (Latitude 46). In her collection, Gatwenzi shares the experience of being young and Black in northern Ontario. In our Q&A she shares how she began writing in Grade 6 after watching a Grey’s Anatomy episode, why she loves poetry, and her creative process when she begins…
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Poetry Muse: Carol Rose GoldenEagle + Essential Ingredients
This weekend Carol Rose GoldenEagle author of Essential Ingredients joins us to share when she began her writing journey, whose poetry collections she admires, and how memories hold magic.
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Poetry Muse: Daniel Lockhart + Go Down Odawa Way
Poetry Muse kicks off with Daniel Lockhart, author of Go Down Odawa Way (Kegedonce Press). D.A Lockhart describes his poetry collection as “history decolonized turned lyric, left to sing of and celebrate what is given to us by our history and our collective survival”. Read on for our Q&A with Lockhart in which he shares with us how…
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Poetry Muse: Poetry Inside Out
This National Poetry Month on All Lit Up we bring you Poetry Muse, a month-long series dedicated to learning about who or what inspires these amazing poets to write. Join us here on the blog throughout the month for our feature poets—including Q&As and poems from each collection—and get 15% off any of our featured collections…
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Reclaiming Voice and Identity Through Creative Nonfiction
Author ofPersephone’s Children: A Life in Fragments (Dundurn Press) Rowan McCandless, joins us today to share about reclaiming one’s voice and identity through experimental creative nonfiction writing that includes multiple mythologies. In her essay, learn more about McCandless’s odyssey as a Black, biracial woman who escaped a long-term abusive relationship.
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Women Crush Wednesday: Fiction Edition
In this week’s edition of Women Crush Wednesday, discover these talented fiction authors published by Inanna Publications, ARP, Turnstone Press, Cormorant Books, Thistledown Press, Roseway Publishing, Book*Hug Press, and Breakwater Books.