My poems are meditative and introspective moments, distilled and compressed, yet building upon each other to create narrative. They are both the sensory of a moment and the movement in experience of it as a story.
They tend to involve characters in tension with their environments—with a troubled past, for instance, or a shifting present, or an uncertain ecological future.
They work collectively as something of a collage—images layered upon each other to form a story. I make collage alongside writing poetry—often quite minimalist, always asking: what is just enough?
Camilla Gibb reads from I Used to Be a Pisces
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Photo credit to Mark Raynes Roberts.
Camilla Gibb is the internationally acclaimed author of five novels: Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-so’s Life, Sweetness in the Belly, The Beauty of Humanity Movement, and The Relatives. She is also the author of the RBC Taylor Prize–shortlisted memoir This Is Happy. Gibb has received the Trillium Book Award and the City of Toronto Book Award and has been shortlisted for the Giller Prize. She is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Victoria College, University of Toronto.
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