An update of the interviews and features on Open Book: Toronto this week.
The Great Canadian Writer’s Craft Interview: Zachariah Wells
High-school student Micaela Kirkwood-Lazazzera speaks to poet Zachariah Wells about the influence of other poets, writing a children’s book with his wife and working as an ice cream man in his teenage years. Read more
The Great Canadian Writer’s Craft Interview: Jacob Scheier
Jacob Scheier answers high-school student Clare Merchant’s questions about how he discovered his writing style, how he arrived at poetry and his fascination with his ancestry. Read more
The Great Canadian Writer’s Craft Interview: Stuart Ross
High-school student Dianne Aguilar interviews Stuart Ross about growing up in North York, finding inspiration in e.e. cummings and spending eight years on the 32,000-word Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew. Read more
Ten Questions, with Sean Dixon
“Our city is amorphous. There are a thousand ways of looking at this place and no single vision encompasses it,” Sean Dixon tells Open Book while speaking about his newest book, The Many Revenges of Kip Flynn. Read more
The Great Canadian Writer’s Craft Interview: Sherwin Tjia
Sherwin Tjia describes his brainstorming process in his interview with high-school student Erin Stephenson: “I basically carry this pocket-sized sketchbook around with me all the time. When I’m at a poetry reading or something and bored I like to draw the people staring at the poet. I’ll draw starting from the front of the book, and write stuff starting at the back, and at some point they’ll meet around the middle.” Read more
The Great Canadian Writer’s Craft Interview: Gary Barwin
Gary Barwin speaks to high-school student Rachel Wedekind about his fascination with visual poetry “Visual poetry confirmed my suspicion that words — and their component letters and interleaved punctuation — were, in addition to being a way to store and point to meaning — visual machines, or visual organisms with their own grammar of shape, structure and movement.” Read more
TTQ’s Toronto Poets 5 Questions Series: Ruth Roach Pierson
The Toronto Quarterly interviews Ruth Roach Pierson about how she found her way to poetry, reading her poetry aloud and what she hopes to evoke in her readers. Read more
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