Ian Williams interviews Susan Musgrave
“It’s almost as if she died and she took the words away.” —Susan Musgrave In this interview with Griffin Trustee Ian Williams, 2023 Griffin Poetry …
Ian Williams interviews Susan Musgrave
“It’s almost as if she died and she took the words away.” —Susan Musgrave In this interview with Griffin Trustee Ian Williams, 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Susan Musgrave on the role of poetry in providing catharsis, the neuroscience of the grieving brain, the tension between grief and love, and … Read more
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Sarah Howe Interviews Robyn Creswell and Iman Mersal
“Iman’s poetry was completely unlike anything that I had been reading in Arabic, and the impression that I got was that all of a sudden …
Eleanor Wachtel interviews Tolu Oloruntoba
In this in-depth interview with CBC’s Eleanor Wachtel, 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian winner Tolu Oloruntoba shares some of his earliest memories, the influential role …
Eleanor Wachtel interviews Douglas Kearney
In this exclusive interview with CBC’s Eleanor Wachtel, 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize international winner Douglas Kearney delves into how hip-hop and Black vernacular traditions have …
Ian Williams interviews Tolu Oloruntoba
[Observation] has been a way to document my own landscape, my own past, and see if I can understand why I am the way I …
Ian Williams interviews Liz Howard
Writing this letter enabled me to grapple with the grief and the immensity of the circumstances that I found myself in. Liz Howard In this …
Ian Williams interviews David Bradford
I was never too keen on writing about family, but there was an element of coming back to poetry a number of years ago that …
Paul Muldoon interviews Ed Roberson
I’m amazed at how much I like the architecture of poems…The shapes of poems actually say things and carry weight and meaning. Ed Roberson In …